Lead Product Designer

Overview

As Lead Product Designer at FanDuel, you will elevate design quality and drive meaningful impact across multiple product areas. You will combine craft, strategy, systems thinking, and cross-functional leadership to solve complex customer and business problems. While staying hands-on, you will raise the bar for teams, shape design systems, and ensure accessible, user-centered experiences. You operate autonomously in a fast-paced setting and align design decisions with company goals.

Pay / Benefits

• salary
• bonus
• pension
• private healthcare
• share save scheme
• flexible working hours

Responsibilities

• Lead large, ambiguous product initiatives spanning multiple teams and customer journeys
• Tie design decisions to measurable customer and business outcomes
• Build trusted partnerships with Product, Engineering, Insights, and leadership
• Balance user needs, business priorities, technical constraints, compliance, and delivery
• Influence product decisions through evidence-based design, research, analytics, and experimentation
• Elevate quality across interaction, visual design, accessibility, and systems thinking
• Drive consistency while knowing when to innovate
• Champion accessible, inclusive, user-centered design
• Establish and improve AI-assisted design workflows grounded in insights and context
• Coach and mentor designers and promote responsible AI practices

Key requirements

• Extensive experience shaping and designing complex digital experiences in cross-functional environments
• Strong portfolio showing craft, product thinking, systems thinking, and measurable impact
• Deep expertise in user-centered design, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, accessibility, prototyping, design systems, and product strategy
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead cross-functional initiatives without formal authority
• Experience using qualitative and quantitative data and experimentation to shape strategy and evaluate outcomes
• Ability to coach designers and raise design quality beyond individual projects
• Judgment in applying AI-assisted workflows and validating outputs across discovery to execution
• Working familiarity with front-end concepts (React Native, JavaScript or TypeScript) beneficial but not required

• Cross-functional collaboration
• Mentoring and coaching
• Strategic thinking
• User-centered design
• Information architecture
• Interaction design

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