Senior Product Designer (Studio Team)

[REDACTED] is launching a Studio team, a small, fast-moving group whose job is to answer one question: is this opportunity worth pursuing?

Partnering with our Strategy team, the Studio takes new and emerging business ideas, like expanding into a new sport or entering an international market, and rapidly validates them with real customers

This lets us commit to the right bets faster and stop sitting on promising ideas because we lack evidence

As the founding designer on this team, you’ll pair with a product manager to run focused validation sprints

Your toolkit is whatever the question demands: surveys, onsite ethnographic research, concept tests, prototypes in customers’ hands, market experiments, or a combination of all of the above

Your output isn’t a shipped feature

It’s confidence: a clear, evidence-backed recommendation on whether an opportunity deserves deeper investment and handoff to a product team, or whether we should walk away and move on to the next idea

This role is different from a traditional product designer role at [REDACTED]

You won’t have a large supporting cast of researchers, engineers, and analysts embedded on your team

Instead, you’ll operate more like a founder, pulling in partners from User Research, Strategy, Product, Engineering, and beyond when you need them

If you’re energized by ambiguity, love learning new problem spaces from scratch, and would rather run ten scrappy experiments than polish one feature, this is your team

You’ll report directly to the VP of Design

• Partner with your PM and the Strategy team to turn emerging business ideas into sharp, testable questions, defining up front what “validated” looks like and what evidence would change our minds
• Own validation sprints end to end: framing the riskiest assumptions, choosing the right method, running the work, and synthesizing what you learn
• Select and execute the right research approach for each question, including surveys, customer interviews, onsite ethnographic research, diary studies, concept and prototype testing, and landing page or demand tests
• Build prototypes at whatever fidelity gets an answer fastest, from paper sketches and [REDACTED] flows to functional, AI-assisted coded prototypes you can put in front of real customers
• Use AI tools aggressively across the workflow to build faster, synthesize research at scale, and expand how much the team can evaluate with two people
• Get out of the building. Recruit and engage real coaches, players, families, and prospective customers in new markets and sports
• Deliver clear, honest go/no-go recommendations to leadership, backed by evidence, including the recommendation to not pursue something
• Package validated opportunities (the insight, the evidence, the concept, and the open questions) for a smooth handoff to a product team to build
• Collaborate with User Research, Data & Analytics, Strategy, Product, and Engineering partners as needed to get the job done
• Help define how the Studio operates. As a founding member, you’ll shape the team’s playbook, cadence, and standards for what “enough confidence” means

Benefits

• Unlimited Vacation - Take time off work and travel the world. Enjoy unlimited vacation time.
• Remote Work - [REDACTED]’s can work from anywhere. You’ll receive a tech budget to make sure you’re set up for success.
• Health Insurance - We’ll make sure you stay healthy. Health, dental, vision, and other perks like a pre-tax FSA - we’ve got you covered.
• 401K Plan - We’re always looking ahead and so should you. Did we mention that we match?
• Tech Budget - You receive a large tech budget every two years. It’s yours to keep.
• Continued Learning - Tuition reimbursement, an annual flexible learning budget, mentorship opportunities, and more.
• Parental Leave - Get the time off you need with extended parental leave for both parents.
• Wellness - Stay fit and healthy on us. We offer a [REDACTED] membership.
• Other Perks - Monthly Snack Boxes, [REDACTED] employee discount, Demo Day, Hack Day, virtual and in person team social events