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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.\nThis 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.\nWe’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.\nTennis 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.\nRoles & Responsibilities\nDesign end-to-end product experiences across OTT, mobile, and web- from early concepts and AI-assisted prototyping through high-fidelity execution\n\nPartner closely with Product Managers and Engineers to define problems, rapidly prototype and explore solutions using AI-powered tools, and ship high-quality work\n\nContribute to and help evolve the Tennis Channel design system, patterns, and accessibility standards\n\nEvolve the brand look and feel across the digital ecosystem\n\nPresent work clearly to cross-functional partners and leadership, articulating design rationale and tradeoffs\n\nParticipate in critiques and feedback loops, both giving and receiving thoughtful, actionable feedback\n\nConduct or collaborate on research to incorporate insights, testing, and validation into your design process\n\nBalance multiple projects and priorities while maintaining a high bar for craft and usability\n\nModel strong design processes and collaboration practices within the team, embracing AI-powered tools to accelerate prototyping, experimentation, and iteration.\n\nRequirements\n5+ years of experience as a product designer working on consumer-facing digital products\n\nStrong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design work, including complex flows and systems\n\nExperience designing for mobile and web; OTT/TV experience is a strong plus\n\nExcellent visual, interaction, and systems design skills with strong attention to detail\n\nComfort working in Figma, including components, libraries, and design systems\n\nExperience using AI-powered tools to rapidly prototype, explore interactions, and accelerate design iteration.\n\nSolid understanding of accessibility, usability, and inclusive design principles\n\nProven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and communicate clearly with non-design partners\n\nAbility to think strategically while staying grounded in execution\n\nPassion for sports, media, or entertainment products is a plus (tennis fans get bonus points)\n\nAbility to work in person in Santa Monica three days per week\n\nTennis 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.\nAbout Tennis Channel\nTennis 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.\nAbout Sinclair\nSinclair, 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.\nAbout the Team\nThe 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.\nThe 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. 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