Staff Product Designer

November 3, 2026

Lead

New York, United States

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Description

Fanatics is hiring a Staff Product Designer for the Shop pod of the Fanatics App, leading end-to-end design of discovery, merchandising, product detail, and the handoff into cart and checkout. This is a hands-on Staff role: you set the design direction for the pod, ship the work yourself, and raise the design bar for the team. You partner closely with the pod's Product Manager and Engineering Manager while keeping Shop patterns coherent with the rest of the app.

Responsibilities

End-to-end Shop design: discovery and browse, merchandising and personalized recommendations, product detail, and cross-sell and post-purchase moments
Drive multi-milestone design programs to business outcomes with minimal oversight, shaping product vision and managing stakeholders and team capacity
Own the pod's slice of the FanApp design system: product cards, merchandising modules, and recommendation surfaces
Prototype in the product environment itself (code/app, not just Figma), using AI tools to validate real behavior against real data and backend constraints
Set design evaluation and validation standards for the pod: how work gets critiqued, redlined, and handed off to engineering
Mentor designers on and around the Shop pod — craft, ownership, and collaboration
Partner closely with the Shop pod's Product Manager and Engineering Manager, sitting inside the pod
Work horizontally with other FanApp design staff and leads to keep Shop's patterns coherent with the rest of the app
Partner with pod leadership on planning and roadmap-building, influencing prioritization by user insight and business impact

Requirements

10+ years in Product Design, with experience operating at Staff scope — owning design across a team, not just a feature
E-commerce, shopping, or merchandising design experience; understanding what makes a fan click buy versus keep scrolling
Strong systems thinking — you've built patterns and components that other teams adopted
Prototyping fluency, including in the product's own code/app environment
Comfort using AI tools to move faster without losing rigor
A track record of mentoring designers and setting design/craft standards for people beyond yourself
Comfort in a mobile-first, fast-moving consumer environment where the roadmap can be ambiguous and priorities shift