Lead, Product Designer

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Lead Product Designer, CBS Sports App

Discipline: Design 
Team Model: Embedded on a cross-functional CBS Sports App squad

The Big Stage
CBS Sports isn't just an app; it’s the digital stadium for millions of fans. We own the rights and the data that matter—NFL, UEFA Champions League, March Madness, the Masters, and the UFC. When a game is on the line, we are the primary screen in every pocket.
But we aren't just a scoreboard. We are a massive content engine of fantasy leagues, brackets, live video, and deep journalism. We build for the electric atmosphere of a playoff Sunday and the daily ritual of a Tuesday morning trade rumor. We have the scale of a legacy giant and the soul of a startup that’s obsessed with what happens when you use AI to build faster than the competition.

About the Role
You'll be a  lead designer on a cross-functional squad shipping features across the CBS Sports App for iOS and Android. You'll work directly with a PM and a handful of engineers on problems that show up in the product within weeks, not quarters.
The day-to-day is wide. Some weeks you're deep in audience behavior data, pulling analytics directly to understand how fans actually move through the product and where they get stuck. You'll build user profiles, map out flows, and test concepts directly with fans—sometimes running your own surveys alongside our research team to make sure our strategy is crystal clear.
Other days, you're prototyping in an LLM or deep in code, building something interactive to see if an idea actually works at speed. Others you're in Figma tightening states, specs, and details with your engineer. We don't split research, prototyping, and production across different people. You move across all of it.

How We Build (The Builder Culture)
We’ve moved past the era of endless Jira tickets and slow-motion handoffs. We work in small, cross-functional, tactical squads. Together, you own a problem end-to-end.
●    Fast & Fluid: We workshop ideas, rough up prototypes, and figure out the smartest way to ship. We're leaning into a hybrid, builder-led process focused on getting interactive, holdable features into the hands of fans as quickly as possible.
●    No Handoffs: You don't "deliver" designs; you shape the product alongside your team. We value builders with different strengths over specialists who stay in their lane.
●    Craft is a Team Sport: We crit regularly, post work-in-progress, and expect opinions. Polish is something the whole squad holds. Your Toolkit: AI + Figma

We are looking for a designer with strong technical intuition who expects AI to be the bedrock of their workflow. You don’t need to write production code from scratch, but you do need to be code-confident. You understand the foundational architecture of digital products—how data flows, how repos work, and how logic is structured—well enough to effectively direct AI agents. We design code-first and code-last, and we want someone who is ready to get hands-on.

●    AI Native: This isn't a team that's just experimenting with AI tools. We use LLMs to think through problems, stress-test hierarchies, explore edge cases, and draft specs. AI-assisted building is a natural, everyday part of how you design.
●    Rapid Prototyping to Production: You’ll use tools like Cursor or Claude to concept, pull from code repos to iterate directly, and build "holdable" prototypes with real data feeds. When it makes sense, you'll push changes directly into the product with an engineer reviewing.
●    The Canvas for Art Direction: We view the design canvas (Figma, for now) as a two-way street with code. Since our components are increasingly being built and managed directly in code, we don't use the canvas as just a static library. Instead, it’s our free-flowing space for exploration. It's where we sweat the visual details, explore high-polish ideas before bringing them back into the build, and set the specific visual rules that guide our AI tools.
●    Systems Thinking at Scale: You bridge the gap between AI and the canvas perfectly. Rather than designing bespoke, one-off screens, you use both toolsets to plan, structure, and generate scalable solutions that hold up across the entire product ecosystem.
●    Internal Tools: You’ll use AI to spin up internal SaaS-style tools that help the squad move faster. If a workflow can be automated or prototyped with a prompt, we expect you to do it.

What We’re Looking For
●    You Own the Result: You are accountable for outcomes, not just artifacts. You know exactly which metric your work is supposed to move before you start, and you're still watching it after launch.
●    Shipped Mobile Work: You have a portfolio of consumer-facing mobile apps where we can see interaction decisions, visual craft, and your willingness to push past the happy path.
●    Self-Serve Research: You treat research as a velocity tool, not a gate. You can read the product analytics, understand the audience, and use what you learn to adjust direction when the data says something different than the plan.
●    Slope Over Intercept: We care less about exactly where you trained and more about your rate of improvement. You have high agency, high urgency, and a "builder" mindset.
●    Sharp Collaboration: You give feedback to engineers and PMs as readily as you take it. You'd rather have an honest disagreement now than a polite surprise at launch.

The Baseline (Qualifications)
●    8-10 Years of Experience: You have years of end-to-end product design under your belt. We care about slope over intercept, we’re looking for a track record of high-velocity growth and shipped features.
●    The Receipts (Your Portfolio): A link to your online portfolio is a must. We want to see shipped consumer mobile work that proves your visual craft, interaction decisions, and systems thinking. Show us how you tackle complexity and make live experiences feel alive.

Helpful but Not Required
●    A genuine obsession with sports, betting, live events, or broadcast media.
●    Motion and interaction chops that make a live experience feel alive.
●    Contributions to or management of a complex design system.

CBS Sports, a year-round leader in cross-platform sports coverage, broadcasts a portfolio of events on the CBS Television Network, including THE NFL ON CBS; college football, including the Big Ten ON CBS; college basketball, including the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship; golf, including The Masters®, PGA Championship and PGA TOUR; soccer, including the UEFA Champions League and NWSL; and CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR. 

In addition, the division includes CBS SPORTS NETWORK, the 24-hour cable home of CBS Sports which televises live sports programming throughout the year, including college football and basketball games, UEFA Champions League and Europa League action, Italy's Serie A matches, Concacaf national team competitions, as well as a full slate of original programming and studio coverage. 

CBS Sports also delivers an extensive lineup of global soccer coverage on Paramount+, including every UEFA club competition match, all Serie A matches as well as Concacaf national team competitions, and produces INSIDE THE NFL for Paramount+. CBS Sports Digital's multi-platform offerings include CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports apps for mobile and connected TV devices; the 24/7 streaming sports news network CBS Sports HQ; 247Sports; MaxPreps; CBS Sports fantasy games; and SportsLine.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Hiring Salary Range: $125,000.00 - 170,000.00. 

The hiring salary range for this position applies to New York, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education.  The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO or, if applicable,  as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement. This position is bonus eligible.  

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• Unique opportunities to make meaningful connections and build a vibrant community, both inside and outside the workplace.
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