Product Design Manager - Design Systems

FanDuel Group is a world-class team of brands and products that deliver sports betting, gaming and entertainment to millions of US sports fans, every day. That’s no easy task, and wouldn't be possible without a fantastic team who have helped us pioneer new products and innovative features that make us a leader in the industry. Whether you’re looking for better career progression, improved financial security or just a better sense of belonging, we believe we’ve created a culture in which everyone can succeed, no matter how you got here.

FanDuel Group is based in New York, with offices in Atlanta, California, New Jersey, Florida, Oregon and Scotland. Our brands include:

• FanDuel — A game-changing real-money fantasy sports app
• FanDuel Sportsbook — America’s #1 sports betting app
• TVG — The best-in-class horse racing TV/media network and betting platform
• FanDuel Racing — A horse racing app built for the average sports fan
• FanDuel Casino & Betfair Casino — Fan-favorite online casino apps
• FOXBet — A world-class betting platform and affiliate of FanDuel Group
• PokerStars — The premier online poker product and affiliate of FanDuel Group

We’re looking for a Product Design Manager to join our UX & Design team in Edinburgh or Glasgow, working on our Design System.

What you’ll do

You’ll be part of the team that owns and manages Formation the FanDuel Design System. Ensuring that it is fit for purpose and delivering value to the company. Working closely with Product Designers, UX Writers and Engineers to build on our component library and to create guidelines and processes that ensure we are designing and building consistent experiences.

You'll join and support a fast growing UX & Design team, working on innovative new features and building upon the existing experiences that our customers love, maintaining our best-in-class status.

• Own your team’s projects, as well as continuing to execute some higher level work. You’ll manage a small team on an organisational and tactical level
• Lead team projects and goals with a lot of scope and ambiguity and educate the team and stakeholders on UX & Design best practices
• Responsibility for organising the team and quality with any Leads and Principals
• Drive projects forward with a lot of autonomy, and receive assignments in the form of objectives and work on solutions to meet schedules and goals. You’ll develop new approaches for tackling a problem, using known methods, and anticipating problems
• Collaborate closely with other UX & Design managers to align on consistency of patterns and processes across areas. You’ll lead and facilitate meetings and sessions, and contribute to team meetings. You’ll participate in hiring and onboarding new members for your team and the wider UX & Design team
• Receive coaching in behavioural skills and people management and learn to give quality, timely, objective feedback. You’ll coach team members in technical skills

What you bring

You'll have previous experience working on design systems that have a proven track record of providing value to the business and demonstrate UX skills.

You'll have contributed and led multiple shipped projects on a number of products and be able to demonstrate the necessary technical skills and behaviours. You understand the best practices of hiring and have a solid foundation of a professional network.

• Proficient in all areas of your discipline and consistently committed to adherence and investment in systems, processes and customer intelligence
• Experience of working in partnership with product, engineering, and delivery leaders and organised the coverage of your team appropriately
• You’re excited to learn and improve constantly as a people manager
• You can clearly communicate rationale to partners and have developed persuasion techniques.

What to include in your application

Your resume and any extra info that’s relevant

At least one case study of a real world project, ideally this would be an existing design system you have worked on. We want to see how you tackle a digital product UX problem and how you have worked with a team to deliver that. Demonstrate your people management, leadership, and UX skills. You can read a blog post about what we look for in a case study. If you can’t share a case study with us, please let us know why so we can work something out.

Anything else that you think we should see.

What you’ll get

Beyond working with such a great team? We’re serious about career development at FanDuel. Your manager will help you set development goals and use our discipline-specific career framework to grow over time. All our managers have a focus on continuous development and a drive to help you reach your potential, with in-house training and a development budget.

• An exciting and fun environment committed to driving real growth
• Opportunities to build really cool products that fans love
• Mentorship and professional development resources to help you refine your game
• Flexible vacation allowance to let you refuel
• Competitive benefit programs and platforms

FanDuel Group is an equal opportunities employer. Diversity and inclusion in FanDuel means that we respect and value everyone as individuals. We don't tolerate bias, judgement or harassment.  Our focus is on developing employees so that they reach their full potential.

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