Lead Product Designer

Tennis Channel is looking for a Lead Product Designer to help shape the future of our digital experiences across streaming (OTT), mobile, and web. This role sits at the intersection of product strategy, craft, and execution. You’ll work closely with product, engineering, and content teams to design industry-leading streaming applications that make tennis—and everything around it—more accessible to fans.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys taking products from 0–1, brings strong design thinking to organizations ready for it, and loves solving complex, strategic problems through systems design. As an early hire in a growing product organization, you’ll help raise the bar for design quality, establish expectations of excellence, and influence how design shows up across the company. You’ll also learn how to take ideas from concept to production, help shift an organization toward a true product mindset, and grow through close 1:1 mentorship as part of a small, high-impact team.

We’re a team of tennis obsessives who care deeply about the sport and take pride in building great products together. We work hard, play hard, and genuinely enjoy collaborating with people who are curious, thoughtful, and passionate about what they do.

Tennis Channel operates multiple broadcast and digital platforms, including Tennis Channel, T2, Pickleball TV, and Tennis.com. While this role will focus on our dedicated OTT experiences, responsive web, and native mobile apps, you’ll be designing within a broader ecosystem that reaches fans wherever they watch and engage with the sport.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end product experiences across OTT, mobile, and web — from early concepts and AI-assisted prototyping through high-fidelity execution

• Partner closely with Product Managers and Engineers to define problems, rapidly prototype and explore solutions using AI-powered tools, and ship high-quality work

• Contribute to and help evolve the Tennis Channel design system, patterns, and accessibility standards

• Evolve the brand look and feel across the digital ecosystem

• Present work clearly to cross-functional partners and leadership, articulating design rationale and tradeoffs

• Participate in critiques and feedback loops, both giving and receiving thoughtful, actionable feedback

• Conduct or collaborate on research to incorporate insights, testing, and validation into your design process

• Balance multiple projects and priorities while maintaining a high bar for craft and usability

• Model strong design processes and collaboration practices within the team, embracing AI-powered tools to accelerate prototyping, experimentation, and iteration.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a product designer working on consumer-facing digital products

• Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design work, including complex flows and systems

• Experience designing for mobile and web; OTT/TV experience is a strong plus

• Excellent visual, interaction, and systems design skills with strong attention to detail

• Comfort working in Figma, including components, libraries, and design systems

• Experience using AI-powered tools to rapidly prototype, explore interactions, and accelerate design iteration. 

• Solid understanding of accessibility, usability, and inclusive design principles

• Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and communicate clearly with non-design partners

• Ability to think strategically while staying grounded in execution

• Passion for sports, media, or entertainment products is a plus (tennis fans get bonus points)

• Ability to work in person in Santa Monica three days per week

Tennis Channel is proud to be equal opportunity employer and a drug free workplace. Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by virtue of an applicant's or employee's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

About Tennis Channel

Tennis Channel is the only multiplatform destination dedicated solely to tennis year-round. Together, the Tennis Channel flagship network, Tennis Channel 2, and the Tennis Channel app (tennischannel.com) deliver the most accessible and concentrated single-sport coverage anywhere. As the exclusive U.S. home of the ATP Tour and WTA Tour, Tennis Channel features live coverage of every Masters 1000 tournament — including Indian Wells, the Miami Open, Madrid, Rome, Cincinnati, and more — alongside live studio programming including its premier series, TC Live. Tennis Channel 2, a free FAST channel available in over 100 million homes, brings fans matches from across the globe at every level of the game. The Tennis Channel app brings it all together in one place, delivering live and on-demand matches, original content, and a personalized multi-view experience for fans, available on mobile and connected TV devices. Owned by Sinclair, Tennis Channel is also a co-owner of PickleballTV (pickleballtv.com), a joint venture with the Professional Pickleball Association.

About Sinclair
Sinclair, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBGI) is a diversified media company and a leading provider of local news and sports. The Company owns, operates and/or provides services to 177 television stations in 79 markets affiliated with all major broadcast networks; owns Tennis Channel, the premium destination for tennis enthusiasts; and multicast networks CHARGE, Comet, ROAR and The Nest. Sinclair’s AMP Media produces a growing portfolio of digital content and original podcasts. Additional information about Sinclair can be found at www.sbgi.net.

About the Team
The life-blood of our organization is our people. We have a compelling story, a goal-oriented culture, and we take really good care of people. How good? Here is a glimpse: great benefits, open-door policy, upward mobility and a strong desire to see you succeed. Ready to be part of a winning team? Let’s talk.

The base salary compensation range for this role is $150,000 to $185,000. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidates’ relevant work experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location. Full time positions are eligible for benefits that include participation in a retirement plan, life and disability insurance, health, dental and vision plans, flexible spending accounts, sick leave, vacation time, personal time, parental leave and employee stock purchase plan.

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