Product Design Lead (Sports Sponsorship, Saas)

• Lead design across multiple Partnership Intelligence domains

• Shape the end-to-end experience of a platform used by commercial, activation, finance, and partnership teams

• Define UX direction, partner on roadmap decisions, and champion quality across the product suite

• Evolve our design system to increase coherence, reusability, and development velocity

• Bring consistency to experiences that span multiple modules and user groups

• Translate complex data, workflows, and system logic into simple, frictionless interfaces

• Own interaction design, flows, and micro-interactions with a high level of polish

• Raise the bar on visual design, clarity, hierarchy, and overall craft

• Drive improvements to the design system, contributing new patterns and components

• Solve complex system design challenges (modularity, scalability, information architecture)

• Develop deep understanding of user needs, behaviours, and motivations across roles and regions

• Identify new problem spaces, areas of friction/ineffiency, and opportunities across the platform

• Partner with PMs, engineers, and data teams to validate concepts and prioiritise work

• Use evidence to reframe problems and influence product direction

• Build prototypes across fidelity levels to explore and validate ideas

• Test concepts with users and iterate rapidly

• Work with engineering to assess feasibility and constraints

• Work with PMs to define requirements and user journeys

• Collaborate with engineering early to ensure smooth implementation

• Create clear documentation and support delivery teams throughout build

• Align patterns and experiences across squads to eliminate fragmentation

• Improve how design plans, communicates, and collaborates across the wider product team

• Introduce rituals and documentation that raise quality and efficiency

• Contribute to building a more mature, scalable design practice

• Mentor and/or line manage other designers, prioritising high performance and professional development

• Led a platform-wide UX refresh that improved clarity, speed, and ease-of-use

• Unified experiences across multiple legacy modules into a more cohesive, modern whole

• Introduced smarter, more intuitive ways for users to find insights and take action

• Evolved our design system to support higher quality and faster iteration

• Shipped improvements that drove measurable gains in adoption, satisfaction, and time-to-value

• Raised design quality and consistency across a growing multi-region product organisation

• 5–8+ years of product design experience, including significant time in B2B SaaS or data-heavy products

• Demonstrated ability to design complex systems with clarity, modularity, and scalability

• Strong interaction design fundamentals — comfortable designing multi-step workflows, states, and data-driven interfaces

• Strong visual design craft with ability to raise the quality bar

• Experience with system design (information architecture, design systems, component-based thinking)

• Strong prototyping abilities across low- to high-fidelity

• Experience collaborating closely with PMs, engineers, and data teams

• Excellent communication skills — able to tell compelling stories and influence senior stakeholders

• A track record of operating autonomously and leading design across multiple squads

• Bonus points if you have…

• Experience experience with social, digital, streaming and broadcast media, computer vision, content contextualization

• Experience working in multi-region, multi-timezone product teams

• Prior involvement in shaping design systems or DesignOps

• B2B experience in the sports or entertainment sector

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