Product Designer, Kitman Labs
Offers equity
Sports science & performance intelligence platform
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Sports science & performance intelligence platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
Offers equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To revolutionize how data is used to optimize health and performance.
Role
Who you are
- You should be comfortable working from ambiguity to clarity, balancing user needs, business priorities, and technical constraints
- You should also bring practical experience using generative AI design tools and lightweight code based, “vibe coded” prototypes as part of the design process, particularly to explore ideas faster, test concepts earlier, and improve collaboration with engineers
- We are looking for someone proactive, self directed, and motivated to drive work to a high standard and conclusion
- 7+ years in a software product design role
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, or equivalent practical experience
- An excellent online portfolio showcasing thinking, UX, UI, and visual design
- Experience working closely with development teams to build web products
- Ideal candidates will have prior experience in the sports industry
- End to end experience from initial research through to design of user journeys
- Experience in sport, performance, healthcare, or similarly high consequence domains is advantageous
- Strong experience using generative AI design tools as part of day to day design work
- Practical experience creating lightweight code based or “vibe coded” prototypes to explore and communicate product ideas
- Familiarity with tools such as Figma Make and modern prototyping environments, including those used alongside platforms such as Vercel
- Working knowledge of LLM based systems, predictive models, and AI driven product features
- Comfort designing for explainability, human oversight, and trust where AI is involved
- Curiosity about emerging interaction models such as conversational UI, voice, multimodal input, and agent like workflows
- You are not expected to build models, but you must understand how AI behaves in product contexts and how modern AI enabled tooling can improve the design process
- A strong portfolio demonstrating strategic thinking, UX depth, and visual clarity
- Demonstrated systems thinking, with the ability to design coherent experiences across complex and interconnected workflows
- Experience building or scaling a design system
- Ability to operate at both platform and interaction level detail
- Clear communication of trade offs and design rationale
- Proactive, collaborative, and motivated to drive work to a high standard and conclusion
- Comfortable working in ambiguity and helping create clarity
- Open to feedback and able to engage constructively in critique and iteration
- Able to balance speed and quality in a fast moving product environment
- Strong ownership mindset without needing formal authority
What the job involves
- We are hiring a Product Designer to help shape the next phase of our platform
- This role is for a thoughtful, highly capable mid-level designer who can work across discovery, interaction design, prototyping, and delivery in an increasingly AI native product environment
- This is a hands-on role
- You will work closely with Product Management, Engineering, Data Science, and other designers to solve complex workflow, data, and usability challenges across our platform
- We are looking for someone who combines strong product and UX fundamentals with the ability to move quickly, think in systems, and use modern AI enabled design workflows to accelerate learning and iteration
- Our platform supports elite sports organisations making critical decisions around performance, health, and operations
- In this context, design is not aesthetic polish
- It determines how information is understood, how complexity is reduced, and how confidently users can act in fast moving, high pressure environments
- You will join a small, experienced, highly collaborative design team
- We work across the product, partnering with squads where the greatest value and innovation can be delivered
- Contribute across the design process, from discovery through to final UI and iteration
- Create user flows, wireframes, high fidelity designs, and prototypes for complex product and workflow challenges
- Work closely with Product Managers and Engineers to shape solutions that are useful, usable, and feasible
- Help ensure shipped experiences meet a high bar for clarity, consistency, and quality
- Participate in discovery work to help define problems, evaluate opportunities, and test solution options
- Conduct and support user research, workflow analysis, and usability testing
- Translate feedback and product signals into practical design improvements
- Collaborate effectively across Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Design, contributing to critiques and day to day product decisions
- Use generative AI design tools to accelerate ideation, iteration, and prototyping
- Create lightweight code based, “vibe coded” prototypes where useful to explore interaction patterns and communicate ideas more effectively
- Apply judgement about when AI assisted or code backed prototyping adds value, and when more traditional design methods are the better fit
- Contribute to the evolution of design patterns and system quality as part of a modern, AI aware design practice
Our take
In sports, advancements in wearable and other data-gathering tech have opened the door to improving athlete performance and reducing the risk of injury. Kitman Labs supplies an analytics platform for just these reasons, helping the sports industry to make sense of their data.
Its platform furnishes teams and management with performance, competition and training analytics, as well as injury risk assessments and treatment guidance. The company also operates a team of performance experts to support customers (coming from positions including athletic directors, coaches, scouts and sports scientists).
Following the strategic acquisitions of both The Sports Office and Presagia Sports, Kitman Labs cultivated the industry's largest dataset of talent, performance and medical data. Its platform is used by hundreds of elite teams including members of the NFL and EPL, as well as by military organizations and in the Olympics.
Kirsty
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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Nov 2021
$52m
SERIES C
Jul 2020
$6m
LATE VC
Total funding: $77.6m
Company benefits
- Excellent Health, Dental, and Vision Benefits Worldwide
- Wellness Perks
- Professional Growth
- Global fully paid maternity, paternity, adoptive, and parents leave
- Flexible Workplace - Fully remote, remote-hybrid, or in person at one of our offices
Company HQ
Mountjoy, Dublin 1, Ireland
Leadership
Stephen Smith
(Founder & CEO)Previously a rehabilitation and conditioning coach, before moving on to found Kitman Labs. His master’s thesis investigated the analysis of combined risk factors as predictors of athletic risk factors.
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