About the Role
The Baseball Research and Development team of the Los Angeles Dodgers builds software applications and platforms for analysis, scouting, player evaluation, and player development. The Product Designer supports feature-level product work across research, analysis, visual design, and project coordination. This role offers a unique opportunity to leverage design to increase the impact of baseball analytics, with visible results on and off the field.
Responsibilities
- Create high-fidelity prototypes associated with feature-level problems
- Develop and document new design system components with usage guidelines for Research and Development teams
- Build strategic outputs (e.g. user personas) and connect product outcomes to the overall product vision
- Present design rational and user research insights to cross-functional stakeholders
- Conduct user research with technical users on well-scoped problems, e.g. collecting feedback on high-fidelity prototypes
- Support the development and maintenance of systems that document use cases and user research insights
- Apply organizational and industry best practices to find multiple solutions to feature-level problems
- Assess the usability of internal products and recommend improvement plans
- Ensure team projects follow established project management processes and support consistent adoption across the team
- Contribute to cross-functional design meetings and ensure that projects are completed on time
- Contribute to the refinement of user research, design, and testing processes
- Observe and reflect on how others influence the work of those around them
- Review resumes/design portfolios, and participate in interviews as instructed
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in related field, with 3+ years of product design experience
- Experience contributing throughout the design process on shipped products
- Ability to demonstrate successful design processes on shipped products, with clear examples of user research informing design decisions
- Expertise in Figma with proficiency with project management and agile collaboration tools
- Excellent reasoning and creative thinking skills
- Ability to train and onboard colleagues on existing processes
- Ability to communicate design decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders and synthesize diverse feedback into solutions
- Working knowledge of baseball’s off-field rules and enthusiasm in contributing for the front office
- Familiarity with how data flows through systems and how technical architecture affects user experience design
Skills
- Figma
- Project management tools
- Agile collaboration tools
- User research
- Design system development
- Prototyping
- Visual design
- UX analysis
- Data flow understanding
- Technical architecture understanding
Location
- Los Angeles, California
Work Type
- Full-Time
Experience Level
- 3+ years of product design experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in related field
Salary/Compensations
- $135,000 - $150,000/annual
About the Company
- The Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball Research and Development team is dedicated to building software applications and platforms that support analysis, scouting, player evaluation, and player development.
Equal Opportunity
- LOS ANGELES DODGERS LLC is an equal opportunity employer.
- LOS ANGELES DODGERS LLC is firmly committed to providing equal opportunity for all qualified applicants from every race, creed, and background.
- LOS ANGELES DODGERS LLC is also firmly committed to complying with all applicable laws and governmental regulations at the state and local levels which prohibit discrimination.
- LOS ANGELES DODGERS LLC considers all applicants without regard to national origin, race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability, military status, citizenship status, pregnancy or related medical conditions, marital status, ancestry-ethnicity, or any other characteristic protected by applicable state or federal civil rights law.
- The Immigration Reform and Control Act requires that LOS ANGELES DODGERS LLC obtain documentation from every individual who is employed, which verifies their identity and authorizes their right to work in the United States.
- LOS ANGELES DODGERS LLC is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.
- As part of this commitment, LOS ANGELES DODGERS LLC will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process.
