Lead Product Designer

Diamond Kinetics is a growing sports-tech company focused in baseball and softball. As the market leader in the space, DK combines motion-based-sensors with mobile applications and a robust digital platform to provide hitting and throwing data to players, parents, coaches, and teams – helping them understand their performance, improve, and have more fun playing the game they love. 

Our company is a fast-paced, performance-driven company where responsibility comes fast and exceeding expectations is the expectation.  The work is challenging but exciting, especially for those who love sports.  We believe in stretching for growth as a company, and as professionals, and seek competitive, self-motivated people as teammates who do the same

Diamond Kinetics is seeking a Lead Product Designer to join and lead our fast growing product design team. This is a role for a creative and talented multidisciplinary designer who has a desire to shape the future of an exciting sports technology product suite. You’ll not only lead the Diamond Kinetics product design effort but will inspire and elevate the team by producing best in class digital product experiences.

You can demonstrate a blend of both theoretical design expertise and applied experience designing mobile experiences for consumer facing products. 

• A compelling portfolio of work that demonstrates design skills and the ability to explain the “whys” behind certain design decisions

• Demonstrated experience collaborating with mobile development teams to ensure designs solutions are clearly defined as feasible for delivery

• Experience both working in and designing team workflows in common design software (Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, .etc - this role will be responsible for tooling selection and design process implementation)

• 5-10 years of experience in fast-paced product development environments

• Experience leading and mentoring a team of talented designers and creatives

• Possess both exceptional product design skills and the ability to implement strategic and conceptual thinking

In this role you will:

• Lead the design of simple, elegant, data-driven, user-centric experiences that delight users

• Define user experiences, interactions, and user interfaces through user flows, information architecture, sketches and wireframes, and visual design

• Form and maintain a set of design guidelines that promote consistency across all products and interfaces

• Build functional prototypes to validate and test your designs

• Participate in user research and testing

• Apply creativity and innovation to help solve complex user problems

• Collaborate across all stakeholders to translate strategic goals into effective product experiences

• Diamond Kinetics provides a flexible work environment
• Expect to work occasional evening and weekend hours. Potential for limited travel.
• Competitive compensation package including salary, bonus, stock options, health insurance, and retirement plan

• Diamond Kinetics is an equal opportunity employer