Lead, Product Designer

About the role

You'll be a lead designer on a cross-functional squad shipping features across the CBS Sports App for iOS and Android. You'll work directly with a PM and a handful of engineers on problems that show up in the product within weeks, not quarters.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with a PM and a handful of engineers on problems that show up in the product within weeks, not quarters.
• Work closely with the research team to understand fan behavior and map out flows.
• Build user profiles and test concepts directly with fans.
• Prototype in LLMs or deep in code, building something interactive to see if an idea actually works at speed.
• Collaborate with engineers to tighten states, specs, and details.

Requirements

• Strong technical intuition and code confidence.
• Experience using AI tools to think through problems, stress-test hierarchies, and explore edge cases.
• Rapid prototyping to production skills, including using tools like Cursor or Claude.
• The ability to bridge the gap between AI and the canvas, using both toolsets to plan, structure, and generate scalable solutions.
• Experience with internal tools to automate workflows and prototype with prompts.

Qualifications

• 8-10 Years of Experience in product design.
• A portfolio showcasing shipped consumer mobile work that proves visual craft, interaction decisions, and systems thinking.
• A genuine obsession with sports, betting, live events, or broadcast media.
• Motion and interaction chops that make a live experience feel alive.
• Contributions to or management of a complex design system.