Senior Product Designer, Studio Team

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Management and Strategy to turn emerging business ideas into testable questions and define validation criteria.
• Own validation sprints end to end, including framing assumptions, selecting methods, conducting research, and synthesizing findings.
• Conduct surveys, customer interviews, ethnographic research, diary studies, concept and prototype tests, and landing-page or demand tests.
• Build prototypes at the fidelity needed to answer questions quickly, from sketches and Figma flows to functional, AI-assisted coded prototypes.
• Use AI tools for design, prototyping, coding, and research synthesis.
• Recruit and engage coaches, players, families, and prospective customers in new markets and sports.
• Deliver evidence-backed go/no-go recommendations to leadership.
• Package validated opportunities, evidence, concepts, and open questions for handoff to product teams.
• Collaborate with User Research, Data & Analytics, Strategy, Product, and Engineering partners.
• Help establish the Studio team's operating playbook, cadence, and validation standards.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product design experience, ideally including 0-to-1 work in early-stage startups, incubation, innovation, or founding environments.
• Strategic, entrepreneurial, self-motivated, and comfortable working with ambiguity and high autonomy.
• Ability to plan, recruit for, moderate, and synthesize qualitative and quantitative research.
• Versatile prototyping skills, from sketches and interactive prototypes to functional customer-facing experiments.
• Familiarity with or strong interest in AI tools for design, prototyping, coding, and research synthesis.
• Strong storytelling skills and the ability to distill ambiguous findings into clear executive recommendations.
• Intellectual honesty and a focus on determining whether opportunities merit investment.
• Knowledge of or passion for sports and the communities around them.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience at an early-stage startup or on an incubation, venture, or new-bets team.
• Experience validating international expansion or entirely new market opportunities.
• Comfort with lightweight data analysis and interpreting experiment results.

Compensation & Benefits

• Target salary range: $140,000–$160,000, plus incentive compensation, equity, and benefits for eligible roles.
• Remote work throughout the US or access to the Manhattan, NY office.
• Unlimited vacation, paid volunteer opportunities, technology and work-from-home stipends.
• Health, wellness, lifestyle, retirement, insurance, disability, parental leave, family-building, and employee discount benefits.