Product Designer, AI & Innovation [Contract]

Who We Are We're a team of entrepreneurial-minded individuals, passionate fans, and technologists building something new - with sports fans and streamers at the center. Venu Sports is a forthcoming sports streaming service being built for sports fans that brings together live content from all the major professional sports leagues and top college conferences, in addition to on demand content from leading sports networks, including ESPN, FOX Sports and TNT Sports. Venu Sports will be made available directly to consumers via a new app. Subscribers will also have the ability to bundle the product, including with Disney, Hulu or Max. The future service will be built through a joint venture established by ESPN, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, FOX and Warner Bros. Discovery. Venu Sports will license each of those companies’ existing sports channels, providing sports fans an extensive, dynamic lineup of sports content that will cater to sports fans currently outside the pay tv ecosystem. We aspire for Venu Sports to become a one-stop destination for sports fans to easily discover, watch, and engage with their favorite leagues, teams, and players. If you're passionate about sports and building something new that has the potential to shape the industry for years to come, we'd love to hear from you. Are you ready to join our team? Job Overview: We are seeking a Senior Designer to work under the direction of our Design Lead for AI and Innovation. The designer will be responsible for detailed user experience flows and variations for key innovation features, based on direction by our Innovation Design Lead. This will include work across mobile, web, and living room platforms. You will work with our Innovation PM and Design Lead to take in feature-specific requirements, create wireframes to validate approach cross-functionally before high-fidelity work, collaborate with designers to ensure platform continuity, leverage and improve existing design systems, provide high-craft final visual designs to engineering, and provide design QA for implementations in progress. In some cases, this designer may be responsible for handing off some of their work to platform-specific designers, and will be responsible for ensuring a smooth transition of responsibilities. Qualifications: Strong UX background Strong visual design craft Expertise in design principles, including accessibility patterns Expertise in novel interaction patterns, familiar interaction patterns, and usability standards Experience working with product to ascertain requirements, take and integrate feedback Experience working with engineering on handoff and implementation QA Experience working with and evolving design systems in Figma Ability to prototype, as well as provide motion and animation design where needed Experience designing end-to-end products for content platforms (e.g. Hulu, Max, YouTube) is a plus Experience designing innovative patterns and features for social and/or content apps is a plus Expertise in Figma and JIRA 6 years of experience as IC UX/UI designer 2 years of leading design for a complex, end-to-end product (as IC and/or design manager) This is a contract role in Los Angeles, CA with a hybrid work schedule . The hourly rate for qualified candidates is $70-$120 hourly. We are unable to support external agencies or sponsorship at this time. The formation of the joint venture and launch of Venu Sports is conditional upon receiving regulatory approval.