# Senior Product Designer, Studio Team

**Company:** [GameChanger](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/gamechanger)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $140k – $160k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Product Design, User Research, Figma, Prototyping, qualitative research, quantitative research, customer interviews, surveys, ethnographic research, diary studies, concept testing, A/B Testing, Data Analysis, artificial intelligence, Market Research
**Posted:** 2026-08-11

> The founding Studio designer will lead rapid validation sprints for emerging business opportunities, combining product design, customer research, experimentation, and prototyping. The role requires 5+ years of product design experience, strong autonomy, strategic judgment, and the ability to make evidence-backed recommendations.

## Job Description

## 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.

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