Senior Product Designer – MLB App, Web and Streaming
Job Description
Senior Product Designer to shape the live game experience across MLB's app, web, and streaming platforms, based in New York, onsite.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with fellow designers to create new features and experiences centered around the live game experience
- Contribute across the broader suite of Major League Baseball products, supporting key business initiatives while continuously exploring new and creative ways to delight fans
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, Researchers, and cross-functional stakeholders to define problems, help shape product strategy, and deliver user-facing solutions that redefine how fans interact with baseball
- Conduct independent research to inform both foundational thinking and iterative design decisions
- Work closely 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, regularly presenting work to peers and product leadership to gather feedback and drive alignment
- Lead and mentor other designers on the team
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience designing consumer-facing, gaming, sports, or streaming media products
- Have a strong understanding of baseball, including the statistics, analytics, and insights that shape how fans experience and interpret the game
- Possess experience designing with large data sets and creating clear, engaging data visualizations
- Are comfortable taking projects from early ideation through execution, leveraging robust design systems to create scalable, polished experiences
- You may have deeper expertise in UX research or visual design, but you are capable and confident working across both
- Are deeply fan- and detail-oriented, focusing on translating ideas into fully realized experiences
- Seek out feedback and use it to continuously improve your work, incorporating qualitative and quantitative insights into the design process
- Communicate effectively 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
- Bring a team-first mentality, with a genuine desire to collaborate, learn from others, and inspire those around you
- 5+ years in digital Product Design or User Experience Design
- Strong portfolio of shipped products that demonstrate data-informed, user-centric decision making and strategy
- Ability to demonstrate 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
- Tution Reimbursement
- Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
- Life and Accidental Death Insurance
- Pet Insurance