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Lead Product Designer - ESPN
The Walt Disney Company • San Francisco, United States of America 🇺🇸
Lead design systems efforts for the ESPN Core Design Systems team while supervising the work of other designers. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the design system is effectively utilized and evolves to meet user needs.
Responsibilities
- Lead design systems efforts for the ESPN Core Design Systems team, supervising the work of at least 1-2 other designers
- Partner with designers, engineers, and PMs across multiple teams to align on system usage, adoption, and evolution
- Design and maintain reusable components, patterns, and documentation in Figma (or similar tools), enabling efficient, cohesive product experiences
- Champion design system governance, establishing processes for contribution, feedback, and versioning
- Work with accessibility experts to ensure every component and pattern meets WCAG and inclusive design standards
- Act as a thought leader on design craft, systems thinking, and the unique demands of sports user experiences
- Mentor and guide designers on both system usage and contribution best practices
- Be the voice in the room that always puts the user first
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required, MBA or technical degree preferred
- Minimum 7 years in Product Design at a technology company
- Minimum 1 year(s) of experience leading other designers either as a project lead or people manager
- Passion for evolving the design practice; it's people, processes and tools
- Deep understanding of typography, motion, color theory, and interaction patterns in modern digital products
- Consulting skills to help stakeholders & partners uncover goals, constraints & dependencies; and then guide them to optimal solutions
- Experience designing for native apps, web, and responsive platforms at scale
- A strong portfolio demonstrating both personal and team-based work
- A deep arsenal of design tools (Figma, Sketch, InVision, Framer, Mural, Keynote)
- Proficiency in user-centered design thinking methodologies
- Outstanding visual design aesthetics combined usable experiences that address problems
- Be able to communicate directly with Product Managers, Stakeholders, and Developers to translate their visions and constraints, into beautiful, functional products that will delight our users
- Excellent prioritization and documentation skills
Key Skills
- Sports enthusiast
- Deep understanding of typography, motion, color theory, and interaction patterns in modern digital products
- Consulting skills
- Experience designing for native apps, web, and responsive platforms at scale
- A deep arsenal of design tools (Figma, Sketch, InVision, Framer, Mural, Keynote)
- Proficiency in user-centered design thinking methodologies
- Outstanding visual design aesthetics combined usable experiences that address problems
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
- Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
- Ability to lead and facilitate brainstorming sessions and workshops
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and experience working in an Agile environment
Benefits
- A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
- Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered
About The Walt Disney Company
Imagine a career at Disneyland Paris. From the moment you arrive, you’ll be immersed in a dynamic and multicultural team of talent that welcomes our Guests every day to create magical souvenirs they’ll cherish forever. Since 1992, we’ve opened our Park gates to 320 million visitors and made the dreams of millions come true! You too could be part of the magic! The success in delivering these projects and their stories is thanks to our team of 15,000 Cast Members who live Walt Disney’s vision: they bring imagination and wonder to our guests while seeing their own careers flourish. And this is where you can get involved. We have 500 different job profiles across our corporate and operations departments, so whether you’re interested in the operational roles within our Park, maybe to work part-time alongside your studies, or if you’re interested in Marketing, Finance, Engineering and our other corporate roles, we invite you to apply to us! Discover our many career opport
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