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Senior Product Designer, Motion

Underdog Sports • United States of America 🇺🇸

Remote $150,000 - $190,000 Full-time Senior

The Senior Product Designer will lead motion design across the product, defining principles and guidelines for interaction and UI motion. They will collaborate with various teams to ensure motion enhances usability and communicates effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate on and lead motion design across the product: define principles, patterns, and guidelines for interaction and UI motion
  • Design high-quality microinteractions (transitions, state changes, loading/empty states, feedback, onboarding moments) that improve usability and delight
  • Prototype early and often using motion-forward tools to explore interaction models and validate concepts quickly
  • Partner deeply with engineers to ensure motion is implemented accurately, efficiently, and accessibly; provide specs and support QA
  • Create reusable motion components and contribute to the design system (tokens, curves/easing, durations, choreography rules)

Requirements

  • 3-5 years of product design experience
  • Strong motion design emphasis in shipped digital products
  • A portfolio showcasing interaction design + motion craft with clear problem framing, process, and outcomes
  • Expert understanding of timing, easing, choreography, and narrative flow for UI motion
  • Strong systems thinking: ability to create scalable patterns rather than one-off animations

Key Skills

  • Motion design
  • Interaction design
  • UI motion
  • Systems thinking
  • Scalable patterns
  • Front-end implementation
  • Accessibility and inclusive design

Benefits

  • Unlimited PTO
  • 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
  • Home office stipend
  • A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
  • 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents

About Underdog Sports

We’re the fastest-growing sports gaming company ever. Our mission is to build innovative games and products for American sports fans. Founded in 2020, our team built three of today's most widely played fantasy games and successfully launched the largest contest in the history of fantasy sports: a $15M NFL Best Ball tournament -- and there’s a lot more to come! Underdog’s modern tech environment and in-house product development allow us to continuously deliver the best experiences for our users.

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