About GameChanger:
We believe in the life-changing impact youth sports have on and off the field because they encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence—important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.
So if you love sports and their community-building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.
The Position:
GameChanger is looking for a VP of Design to lead design as a company-level discipline and shape how millions of coaches, parents, athletes, and fans experience youth sports. You will own the vision, strategy, and quality of product design and user research across our mobile and web experiences.
Reporting directly to our Chief Product and Technology Officer, you will serve on the product leadership team and lead a team of product design managers, designers, and research partners. You will partner closely with leaders across Product, Engineering, Commercial, Strategy, and Data to shape product direction, bring customer insight into company decisions, and connect design with business outcomes.
You will set an ambitious design vision, strengthen the quality and consistency of our experiences, and build a design practice that supports GameChanger’s continued growth. Your work will help make our products intuitive, engaging, and valuable to the communities we serve.
This role combines executive leadership with close engagement in the work. You will champion design across the company, develop our design leaders, and provide the guidance, critique, and hands-on examples that help the team produce exceptional work. You will help make discovery, research, and design central to how GameChanger decides what to build.
What Success Looks Like
- A clear design vision guides the team’s priorities and strengthens the quality and consistency of the GameChanger experience.
- Design and Product operate as strong partners, with customer research, discovery, and prototyping informing product decisions from the start.
- The team demonstrates a higher and more consistent standard of craft, supported by regular coaching, capable design leaders, and a trusted design system.
- Design’s contribution to customer experience, product innovation, and business performance is visible and understood across the organization.
What You’ll Do:
- Set the design direction - Define and communicate a design vision aligned with company strategy. Represent design on the product leadership team and explain design priorities, tradeoffs, and impact to executives and the board.
- Shape customer-centered experiences - Guide the evolution of our mobile and web experiences around customer needs. Partner with Product and Engineering to turn insights into intuitive experiences that drive innovation and differentiation.
- Elevate product quality - Set clear standards for interaction design, visual design, motion, copy, and accessibility. Lead regular critiques, stay close to the work, and sketch or prototype when the team needs direction on a complex problem.
- Build a cohesive design system - Own and evolve the design system and shared design language across iOS, Android, and web to improve consistency, support strong craft, and help teams work effectively.
- Lead and develop the organization - Coach product design managers, grow designers into leaders, and recruit talent as the team evolves. Build a culture of clear expectations, constructive feedback, collaboration, and strong craft.
- Embed research and discovery - Establish regular engagement with coaches,…