Product Designer

Splash Sports is hiring a Product Designer to define, validate, and ship experiences for its sports gaming platform. The role partners with product managers and engineers, uses AI tools and Figma throughout the design process, and supports experiences for both players and commissioners.

Responsibilities:

• Own product work end to end: Partner with product and engineering to define the problem, explore the solution space, validate concepts, and ship work that moves key metrics. Stay on it through launch and iteration, not just handoff
• Design for two audiences: Players and Commissioners both have their own unique requirements and you’ll be asked to deeply understand both. It is essential that you are comfortable speaking with our users and understanding their problems in depth
• Use tools like Claude to pressure test the problem, surface risks and edge cases, and get to early approaches fast. Bring that to your PM and engineers to align on direction. Sometimes the PRD gets written off the back of your exploration
• Bring it into Figma. Translate validated concepts into full state coverage and system alignment so engineering builds without guessing. Create the mockups, prototypes, and high fidelity visuals that communicate ideas and describe their execution

Requirements:

• It is essential that you are comfortable speaking with our users and understanding their problems in depth
• 1 to 4 years experience in sports gaming or mobile games
• Experience designing for DFS, sportsbook, prediction markets, or contest formats like survivor and pick'em
• At a minimum, we'll want to see that you already know our games as a player
• You understand the product and the business underneath it, and you treat design as how you express that, not as the point of the job
• You take a problem, run with it, bring work to review, take feedback, and incorporate it on your own
• Active use of LLMs such as Claude or ChatGPT in your day to day design work, and comfort in tools like Claude Code even if you are not writing production code by hand
• Interaction detail, typography, hierarchy, and polish carry as much weight here as the thinking behind them
• Your portfolio should show both: how you framed the problem, what you tried, what shipped, and what changed
• Ability to work with PMs to define success metrics and adjust based on results
• Real love of sports
• You watch, you play, you have opinions about your lineup
• Experience on small, fast moving teams where you were one of only a few designers
• Experience with products where real money or real stakes are in play