Senior Product Designer

The Senior Product Designer at Major League Baseball (MLB) shapes the live game experience across MLB’s app, web, and streaming platforms. This role collaborates with cross-functional teams to deliver intuitive, data-informed experiences that accompany fans throughout their journey.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with fellow designers to craft features and experiences centered on the live game experience.
• Contribute across MLB’s broader product portfolio, supporting key business initiatives while exploring new ways to delight fans.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, Researchers, and other stakeholders to define problems, shape product strategy, and deliver user-facing solutions that redefine how fans interact with baseball.
• Conduct independent research to inform foundational thinking and iterative design decisions.
• Work with the design systems team to evolve and expand the Basepath product design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across experiences.
• Actively participate in design critiques and reviews, presenting work to peers and product leadership to gather feedback and drive alignment.
• Lead and mentor other designers on the team.
• Operate within a lean, highly collaborative group with significant overlap across initiatives, requiring strong communication, adaptability, and partnership.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience designing consumer-facing, gaming, sports, or streaming media products.
• Strong understanding of baseball, including the statistics, analytics, and insights that shape fan experiences.
• Experience designing with large data sets and creating clear, engaging data visualizations.
• Ability to take projects from ideation through execution, leveraging robust design systems to produce scalable, polished experiences. While you may have deeper expertise in UX research or visual design, you are capable across both disciplines.
• Deeply fan- and detail-oriented. You generate strong ideas and ensure they are realized by obsessing over the details that elevate the final experience.
• Proactive in seeking feedback and using it to improve, with experience incorporating qualitative and quantitative insights into the design process.
• Effective communicator with a wide range of stakeholders, clearly articulating rationale and presenting work with confidence.
• Embrace a show, don't tell mindset, prototyping and visualizing ideas to move conversations and products forward.
• Think in systems, understanding how individual features connect within a broader digital ecosystem.
• Team-first mentality, with a genuine desire to collaborate, learn, and inspire others.
• 5+ years in digital Product Design or User Experience Design.
• Strong portfolio of shipped products that demonstrate data-informed decision making and user-centric strategy.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Good understanding of baseball statistics and rules is a plus.

Benefits

• Competitive Benefits Package
• Company Contributed 401K Plan
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• Access to Free Tickets to Baseball Games & MLB.TV
• Discounts at MLB Store | MLBShop.com
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Onsite/Online Training & Development Programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Pet Insurance

Salary Range

Base salary range: USD 130,000 - 160,000 per year, plus bonus.

Why MLB

Major League Baseball (MLB) is among the most historic professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. The organization fosters a culture of growth, teamwork, and professionalism. Employees who succeed at MLB take initiative, identify problems, provide solutions, and always prioritize the team.