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Warner Bros. Discovery is seeking a Director, Product Design for Bleacher Report within the Sports and Entertainment organization. Bleacher Report is a leading digital destination for next-generation sports fans, creating cross-platform experiences at the intersection of sports, culture, and real-time storytelling across its app, website, and social channels.
Reporting to the VP of Product Design, this leader will guide a team of interdisciplinary Product Designers in shaping cohesive, fan-centered experiences across the Bleacher Report ecosystem. This role requires deep knowledge of sports, strong familiarity with digital sports products, and a clear understanding of sports audience behaviors, fandom, and live and creator content consumption patterns. The ideal candidate is also well-versed in the Bleacher Report brand, app, and site, and can translate that understanding into distinctive product experiences that resonate with fans.
Product Design Leadership & Vision
Champion a high-performance team culture grounded in creativity, accountability, collaboration, and excellence in craft
Lead with a deep understanding of sports fans — their behaviors, emotional drivers, engagement patterns, and expectations across live, social, and on-demand experiences
Use customer insights, analytics, experimentation, and competitive understanding to inform product direction and design decisions
Identify and drive opportunities to integrate AI into product experiences (e.g., personalization, recommendations, generative content, and real-time fan interaction)
Champion the responsible and effective use of AI across the design lifecycle, balancing innovation with user trust, transparency, and ethical considerations
Help ensure the team consistently delivers differentiated, fan-first experiences that reflect the speed, energy, and cultural relevance of sports
Cross-Functional Partnership
Build strong partnerships and collaborate closely with internal stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Research, Editorial, Content, Marketing, Brand, and key business stakeholders
Work closely with business stakeholders to understand goals, priorities, constraints, and success metrics, and translate that understanding into clear, effective product design decisions
Balance user needs, technical feasibility, brand expression, and business priorities to deliver cohesive, high-impact experiences
Lead the advancement, stewardship, and scaling of the Bleacher Report design system to drive consistency, quality, and efficiency across the product ecosystem
Establish and reinforce high standards for craft, usability, consistency, and scalable design practices across platforms
Explore and integrate AI-enabled design workflows (e.g., generative design, automation, design-to-code acceleration) to improve team efficiency and scalability
Ensure the design system evolves to support AI-driven experiences, including dynamic, personalized, and adaptive UI patterns
Qualifications & Experience
10+ years of experience in product design, UX, or digital design, with significant experience in leadership roles
Strong experience designing consumer-facing digital products, ideally in sports, media, social media, streaming, or other real-time content environments
Deep knowledge of sports audiences, including fan behavior, content consumption habits, live-event engagement, and platform expectations
Familiarity with AI-powered design and research tools (e.g., generative design tools, AI prototyping, user research synthesis tools) and their application within product design workflows
Strong understanding of how AI and machine learning can enhance digital product experiences, including personalization, recommendation systems, and generative interfaces
Experience creating products across a range of digital platforms including web, mobile, connected TV, and emerging platforms
Experience designing for live sports, highlights, second-screen, stats, community, or socially driven fan experiences
Strong understanding of personalization, notifications, content discovery, or fan engagement patterns
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Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery’s total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $161,000.00 - $299,000.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.
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