UX Senior Director, Sports

There are more ways to win, here ’re willing to bet on it.

At Fan Duel Group, we give fans a new and innovative way to interact with their favorite games, sports, and teams. We’re dedicated to building a winning team and we pride ourselves on being able to make every moment mean more, especially when it comes to your career. So, what does “winning” look like at Fan Duel? It’s recognition for your hard-earned results, a culture that brings out your best work—and a roster full of talented coworkers.

Make no mistake, we are here to win, but we believe in winning right. That means we’ll never compromise when it comes to looking out for our teammates. From creative professionals to cutting-edge technology innovators, Fan Duel offers a wide range of career opportunities, best-in-class benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best self. At Fan Duel, our principle of “We Are One Team” runs through all our offices across the globe, and you can expect to be a part of an exciting company with many opportunities to grow and be successful.

Fan Duel Group is an innovative sports-tech entertainment company that is changing the way consumers engage with their favorite sports, teams, and leagues. The premier gaming destination in the United States, Fan Duel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across gaming, sports betting, daily fantasy sports, advance-deposit wagering, and TV/media.

Fan Duel Group has a presence across all 50 states with approximately 17 million customers and nearly 30 retail locations. The company is based in New York with offices in California, New Jersey, Florida, Oregon, Georgia, Portugal, Romania and Scotland.

Its network Fan Duel TV and Fan Duel+ are broadly distributed on linear cable television and through its relationships with leading direct-to-consumer OTT platforms.

Fan Duel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment plc, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and a constituent of the FTSE 100 index of the London Stock Exchange.

THE POSITION:
Our roster has an opening with your name on it

We are looking for a UX & Design Senior Director to join our product team and lead design and research across all of our sports products, including Sports book, Daily Fantasy, Racing, Face Off, and Free2

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Fan Duel runs and operates the #1 online sports book in America, the biggest online horse race betting platform and a daily fantasy product that was the first of its kind to mass market.

This leadership role will be responsible for helping define and execute against a vision that brings unified customer experiences across our products and builds lovable experiences s position is responsible for managing directors, managers and ICs across the Sports UX domain.

THE GAME PLAN:
Everyone on our team has a part to play

Influence: You have led teams through deep levels of change in terms of how UX & D functions in an organization. You use relationship building, storytelling and persuasion to effectively communicate UX strategies, design concepts, and research findings to stakeholders at all levels of the organization, influencing decision-making processes and gaining buy-in for UX initiatives. You have experience representing user experience at the highest levels within an organization and are recognized as an influential leader both within and outside of your department:

Strategic & Visionary:
You can consistently work with abstract ideas or situations across functional areas of a business. You can identify and evaluate fundamental issues, and provide strategy and direction for major functional areas. You’re not afraid to challenge the status quo by looking to evolve and grow cross functional teams and ways of working.

Goals & Objectives: You’ll align your objectives with company-wide performance under the general direction of senior leadership. You’ll affect deep levels of change in terms of how your teams function with their peers in product, engineering, commercial, and marketing. Define and track key UX metrics, analyze data, and generate actionable insights to drive data-informed design decisions and measure the…