Profile

A top European sports organization is looking for a fully hands-on Senior Digital Product Designer, with experience of working within a scrum set-up, as well as working in product teams with developers and a PO. In this role, you will co-own products, and proactively push for improvements based on solid arguments and rationale.

Please note, this is a temporary role and is meant to cover for maternity leave.

Within the organization’s digital unit, your role will be mainly focused on 3 key aspects:

• Sharing product ownership with the PO. Taking care of the product/s from strategic to execution level. On the strategic level, you’ll contribute to the product vision on a daily basis together with the PO, stakeholders and the team, influencing the roadmap and the direction of the product towards a first-class experience. On the execution level, you’ll be responsible for the end-to-end design process, from problem understanding to final visual QA with the development team and metrics analysis once in production.
• Continuously improving the design process at the organization, making sure that added value is maximised for our users in every release
• Spreading the word about design internally across the organization and our partners to increase the level of design knowledge in the whole product delivery team

Focus Areas

• Understand the product, the business and the users. Create concepts, wireframes and prototypes, analyse data, support on user research and experimentation
• Work closely with our Product Owners and other internal stakeholders to make sure we deliver a product that is top quality visually and from an interaction point of view, and that solves actual user needs
• Improve our design processes and techniques and contribute to the growth of our design community
• Set up standards, guidelines and patterns so that we can reuse them across different projects
• Follow industry best practices and latest trends, and apply them whenever it makes sense
• Enrich and enlarge our current user knowledge base with new experiments or ad-hoc user research
• Contribute to the growth of design knowledge and awareness within the organization using the key soft skills of a UX designer: communication, collaboration, empathy
• Contribute to the success metrics definition for all the products

Requirements

• Experience in designing creative and innovative concepts in a complex framework with multiple constraining factors
• Proven experience in the sports industry is a plus
• Proactivity, strong communication skills and experience of working with remote teams are a must
• At least 5 years of experience designing consumer-focused products, ideally in the sports industry or for media companies
• Experience in a multi-brand ecosystem of sites/apps, working closely with developers and talking the same language
• Experience working as a product designer in an agile environment, i.e: inside scrum teams

Education

• You must have formal design education or proven equivalent Languages
• English: proficient

Travel

• This is a remote job, with occasional monthly trips provided the Covid-19 situation gets better. You’ll be working remotely with other designers, product owners and developers in an agile environment

Additional Requirements

• Knowledge and mastery of prototyping tools (Figma ideally)
• Knowledge and mastery of web analytics tools (GA)
• Experience defining and documenting visual and interaction guidelines, interaction patterns, etc.
• Experience with A/B testing tools
• Experience with user research and user testing tools

A note to prospective candidates: the hiring organization has been vetted by NoDesk.