Product Design Manager, GameChanger
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$170-190k
Offers Equity + Bonus
More information about location
Scorekeeping & statistics app for sports teams
Open for applications
Scorekeeping & statistics app for sports teams
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$170-190k
Offers Equity + Bonus
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
GameChanger's mission is to help families elevate the next generation through sports.
Role
Who you are
- You have an understanding and appreciation of sports
- You have experience designing for consumers
- You have 5+ years of relevant product design experience at a tech or product-driven company
- You excel at motivating and inspiring people to do their best work
- Experience leading a group of designers
- You excel at both written and spoken communication internally & across departments
- Your best work is done in a highly collaborative way
- You have the ability to take large problems and break them down into bite-sized measurable chunks
- You have experience conducting user research, facilitating user interviews and user tests, digging through behavioral data, and synthesizing findings to identify trends and make recommendations
- You advocate for design by articulating and presenting the rationale behind your ideas
- You care about moving your team forward and look for ways to positively impact the team, not just the product
What the job involves
- As a Product Design Manager at GameChanger you will lead the design of consumer-focused products that connect fans to their youth sports community
- You will responsible for fostering a growing design team focused on delivering a rich and immersive Gameday experience for our users
- You will play a pivotal role in shaping impactful Advertising, Growth and Trust/Safety experiences for our partners and users, working across multiple platforms, devices and teams
- You are knowledgeable about sports and interested in driving outcomes at the intersection of creative and business value
- Be a coach - You’ll manage and professionally develop a small team of exceptional designers working across our Ads, Trust/Safety, and Growth teams. You’ll mentor your designers on both soft and hard skills, helping them develop and achieve career goals
- Process, quality & delivery. You’ll advocate for tactility, accessibility, customer needs and design excellence. You’ll measure and own the results of how well solutions address design and product needs
- Lead - In partnership with your product peers, champion the product direction with a point of view that delivers the best outcome for our customers and the larger business
- Collaborate - Proactively identify large, strategic UX opportunities that span both inside your areas and across the product. Work with other product design managers, staff, and product designers to drive cross-product initiatives through awareness and prioritization
Our take
The competitive nature of sports has always been driven by scorekeeping, and nowadays results are often consumed online. However, for smaller teams it can be difficult to provide this information digitally, as they do not have dedicated web development staff.
GameChanger provides a scorekeeping and statistics platform for sports teams to engage with their fans, that allows viewers to track the progress of a game in real-time similar to with professional sports. The company also embeds a live-streaming service into the platform to facilitate remote viewing, helping to increase audience engagement.
Whilst some sports teams already stream events on platforms such as Twitch and Youtube, most do not have the technical resources to achieve this. GameChanger has recognized this gap in the market, providing a simple yet unified platform for sports scoreboards and streaming, providing a fair opportunity for any team to maximize their community engagement.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2014
$6.8m
SERIES B
Nov 2011
$1m
SERIES A
Total funding: $10.5m
Company benefits
- Unlimited Vacation - Take time off work and travel the world. Enjoy unlimited vacation time.
- Remote Work - GameChanger’s can work from anywhere. You’ll receive a tech budget to make sure you’re set up for success.
- Health Insurance - We’ll make sure you stay healthy. Health, dental, vision, and other perks like a pre-tax FSA - we've got you covered.
- 401K Plan - We’re always looking ahead and so should you. Did we mention that we match?
- Tech Budget - You receive a large tech budget every two years. It’s yours to keep.
- Continued Learning - Tuition reimbursement, an annual flexible learning budget, mentorship opportunities, and more.
- Parental Leave - Get the time off you need with extended parental leave for both parents.
- Wellness - Stay fit and healthy on us. We offer a Gympass membership.
- Other Perks - Monthly Snack Boxes, Dick's Sporting Goods employee discount, Demo Day, Hack Day, virtual and in person team social events
Company values
- Customer obsessed - We put our customers first, always asking, “Will this enhance their youth sports experience?”. We deeply understand our customers and work hard to anticipate their needs. We celebrate and support our customers’ contributions to their communities
- Team Players - We hold each other accountable to deliver our best effort. We are empathetic and supportive, providing a safe environment for risk taking. We listen actively, encourage debate, and commit to action. We do unglamorous work in service of the team
- Ambitious - We take on challenging initiatives designed to drive significant growth. We are mission-oriented, working with urgency to deliver value to our customers. We set a high bar, invest in development, and strive to be the best
- Empowered - We take the initiative to solve problems. We entrust decisions to those closest to the problem. We embrace individual responsibility and accountability
- Focused - We say “no” to valuable initiatives so we can concentrate resources on our most important work. We respect others’ time by limiting distractions, running efficient meetings and communicating concisely
Company HQ
East Village, New York, NY
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Leadership
Sameer Ahuja
(President, not founder)SVP at DICK’S Sporting Goods, that owns GameChanger. Former Founder and CEO of Dera Capital Advisors, as well as former Co-founder and COO/CFO of the Sports Museum of America.
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