Lead Product Designer

About the role

As a Lead Product Designer at FanDuel, you are a trusted design leader responsible for raising design quality and driving meaningful customer impact across multiple teams or product areas. You will combine exceptional craft, strategic thinking, systems design, and cross-functional leadership to solve complex customer and business problems while mentoring others and improving design practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead large, ambiguous product initiatives spanning multiple teams, customer journeys, and business priorities.
• Connect design decisions directly to measurable customer and business outcomes.
• Build trusted partnerships with Product, Engineering, Insights, and leadership to inform product direction and strategic decisions.
• Balance customer needs, business priorities, technical constraints, compliance, and delivery considerations.
• Guide product decisions through evidence-based design, leveraging research, analytics, and experimentation insight.
• Raise the quality bar across interaction design, visual design, accessibility, systems thinking, and execution of every project you influence.
• Drive consistency across experiences while knowing when innovation is appropriate.
• Champion accessible, inclusive, and user-centred design practices.
• Establish and continuously improve AI-assisted design workflows that increase quality, speed, and consistency across the design process.
• Ensure AI-assisted work remains grounded in customer insight, accessibility, design-system guidance, business context, engineering realities, and responsible human judgment.
• Coach and mentor designers through feedback, pairing, design critiques, and responsible AI practices.

Required skills

• Product design
• Systems design
• Interaction design
• Visual design
• Accessibility
• Prototyping
• Design systems
• Product strategy
• User-centered design
• Information architecture