Lead Product Designer, Sports

About Fanatics Momentum

Fanatics Momentum is establishing itself as the premier licensed commercial gaming operator in the UAE, regulated by the General Commercial Gaming Regulatory Authority (GCGRA). Their operations include lottery, iGaming, sportsbook, and digital content. Leveraging the regional foundation of Momentum and the global product expertise of Fanatics, the company is rapidly expanding in a thriving regulated gaming market.

Role Overview

Fanatics Momentum is launching a new sports betting and fan engagement business in the UAE, integrating sportsbook, lottery, and a connected fan ecosystem. The Lead Product Designer, Sports, will be instrumental in crafting the complete user journey across sportsbook and sports-centric fan experiences. The key goal is to create a straightforward, intuitive betting experience focused on meaningful fan moments.

This position involves hands-on leadership, working closely with product management, engineering, trading, research, and marketing teams to convert consumer insights into superior experiences and set a high bar for design quality across the sports domain.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the full end-to-end user experience for sportsbook and sports fan journeys.
• Lead discovery phases, structure information architecture, and design interactions.
• Design for both pre-match and live (in-play) betting segments.
• Develop solutions for bet discovery, slip tracking, and fan engagement features.
• Produce prototypes, conduct validation, and facilitate user testing.
• Create and maintain shared design patterns to ensure consistent design quality.

Goals Within the First Year

• Define and implement a clear, cohesive design strategy for sports products.
• Simplify critical betting and fan interaction flows.
• Enhance usability, user conversion, and engagement metrics.
• Integrate design processes more deeply into product discovery stages.
• Develop reusable design components to accelerate development and unify experience.

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of 7 years dedicated experience in product design with an emphasis on mobile consumer products.
• Proven background in sports, gaming, media, entertainment, marketplaces, or similar high-frequency consumer domains.
• Expertise in interaction design, prototype development, user research, and systemic design thinking.
• Ability to collaborate tightly with product and engineering teams to transform user insights into impactful features.
• Experience designing for complex, data-rich, or real-time consumer-facing applications.
• Capability to establish design standards and reusable patterns across a product area.
• Hands-on knowledge of utilizing AI to enhance the speed and quality of prototyping, research analysis, and iterative design.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience specifically with sportsbook or gaming products, sports media or fan engagement tools, data-intensive or live interactive interfaces, design systems, or global consumer-facing applications.

Inclusion Statement

Fanatics Momentum is committed to fairness, transparency, and inclusion, fostering diversity, teamwork, and innovation. They welcome applicants who are ready to advance their careers and contribute to building a dynamic, category-leading company.