Lead Product Designer - Sports Design (ESPN)

Job ID 10093217 Location Glendale, California, United States / Bristol, Connecticut, United States / Burbank, California, United States / San Francisco, California, United States / New York, New York, United States / Seattle, Washington, United States Business Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology Date posted Nov. 07, 2024

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Job Summary:

Lead Product Designer – Sports Design (ESPN)

About the Role & Team

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also redefining Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world!

A few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

Building the future of Disney’s Sports and Entertainment ESPN business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the experiences that will power ESPN’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses.

Reach and Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – ESPN Streaming, ESPN+, ESPN digital products and much more.

Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

About The Team

The Disney Entertainment & ESPN (DE&E) Technology Design team thinks beyond what is possible today. They discover, disrupt, and chart a course to where our fans and consumers will be next. Design brings the Disney magic to life by building digital customer experiences via the entire portfolio of both consumer-facing products and internal products and tooling. This includes Sports, Entertainment, News, Streaming and Enterprise Products and Experiences.

Disney Entertainment & ESPN’s Product Design team is seeking a Lead Product Designer who will be an exceptional role model to our growing team. You'll guide and mentor a hardworking design team, focused on crafting intuitive and sophisticated human-centric experiences for the ESPN Digital’s stats and scores experiences and sports betting products. The right person for this role must have experience in developing both comprehensive and future-forward experiences and a proven ability to inspire and mentor designers to push the boundaries, as well as keeping focus on optimizing the details of current experiences.

In this role you will play a pivotal part in shaping the next generation of ESPN’s digital products and will shape how sports fans worldwide follow live games, consume stats and scores and engage with sports.

This role requires deep levels of sports passion, knowledge and sports betting experience within a technology-first environment.

What You Will Do

Lead product design for the ESPN Design team, supervising the work of at least 1-2 other designers

Partner with product and engineering to identify requirements, use cases, and user journeys

Illustrate and communicate complex design solutions across uses cases by creating process flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high fidelity mock-ups

Use data collected from research, user testing, and market analysis to create truly user-centered designs

Collaborate with a design manager, product manager, and cross-team peers throughout the product development life-cycle to iterate on and deliver a user experience that meets the highest quality bar

Act as a quality control on the team and make sure documentations are in top shape before delivering to engineers and QAs

Use a variety of metrics to analyze and continuously improve the user experience

Mentor and provide design directions for senior, mid-level designers and associate designers

Exercise ethical decision-making and do what’s best for our viewers

Be the voice in the room that always puts the user first

Required Qualifications & Skills

MUST be a sports enthusiast

Minimum 7 years in Product Design at a technology company

Minimum 1 year(s) of experience leading other designers either as a project lead or people manager

Passion for evolving the design practice; it’s people, processes and tools

Consulting skills to help stakeholders & partners uncover project goals, constraints & dependencies; and then guide them to optimal solutions

Experience designing across multiple devices (iOS, Android, Web, Apple TV, Roku, Xbox, PlayStation, Fire TV etc.)

A strong portfolio demonstrating both personal and team-based work

A deep arsenal of design tools (Figma, Sketch, InVision, Framer, Mural, Keynote)

Proficiency in user-centered design thinking methodologies

Outstanding visual design aesthetics combined usable experiences that address problems

A strong drive in overcoming obstacles to make a product successful

An understanding of acquisition & conversion, data-informed design

Experience with experimentation design (A/B, MVT, Usability, etc.)

Be able to communicate directly with Product Managers, Stakeholders, and Developers to translate their visions and constraints, into beautiful, functional products that will delight our users

Excellent prioritization and documentation skills

Preferred Qualifications

Experience and comfortability with Prototyping

Experience doing complex Vision-work, running Sprints, or Broadcasting

Proven experience in a senior design leadership role, influencing product strategy and driving organizational impact.

Education

Bachelor's degree required, MBA or technical degree preferred

The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles is $ 136,100 - 182,400 per year, in Seattle and New York City is $142,600 - 191,100, and in San Francisco is 149,000 - 199,800. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

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About Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology (DE&E Technology) provides the technological backbone and product development for Disney’s two media business units, while helping to keep the company at the vanguard of innovation – enabling the Company to continuously leverage technology to enhance storytelling and creativity, while delivering scalability, flexibility, and efficiency for its businesses.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Disney Streaming Technology LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology.

Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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