About this Staff Product Designer role at Warner Bros. Discovery
Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.
Who We Are…
When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…
From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.
Your New Role
Warner Bros. Discovery Sports is seeking a Staff Product Designer 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 Director, Product Design, this role will help shape the future of sports fandom across our digital products and platforms. 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. This role is responsible for helping to drive product vision, influencing strategy, and creating alignment across multiple teams, platforms, and customer journeys. You'll partner with Design Operations, Product, Engineering, User Research, Data, and business leaders to solve ambiguous problems, identify opportunities for innovation, and deliver experiences that drive meaningful customer and business impact.
As a Staff Product Designer, you'll be a highly influential individual contributor who helps shape product direction, elevate design quality, and mentor other designers while remaining deeply involved in raising the bar for UX Design and execution.
The Work
Lead highly complex, cross-functional initiatives that span multiple products, platforms, and customer experiences.
Partner closely with Design Operations, Product Managers, Engineers, User Researchers, and Business Stakeholders to define and deliver customer-centered solutions.
Translate customer insights, business objectives, and technical constraints into intuitive and engaging experiences.
Create workflows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that clearly communicate product direction and intent.
Leverage customer research, analytics, experimentation, and market insights to inform design decisions.
Contribute to and evolve design systems, patterns, and reusable components that improve consistency and scalability.
Apply systems thinking to understand and improve experiences across the broader sports fan ecosystem.
Participate in roadmap discussions and help identify opportunities to improve customer engagement and business outcomes.
Collaborate effectively across teams to ensure high-quality execution and delivery.
Mentor and support other designers through feedback, collaboration, and design critique.
Explore emerging technologies, including AI-powered experiences and AI-assisted workflows, to improve both customer experiences and team effectiveness.
Qualifications & Experience
Required
8+ years of experience designing digital consumer products and experiences.
Proven track record leading complex, ambiguous, and strategically important initiatives.
Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design work and customer-centered problem solving.
Experience influencing product strategy and driving alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders.
Strong communication, facilitation, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills.
Experience leveraging research, customer insights, analytics, and experimentation to shape product direction.
Ability to balance long-term vision with practical execution.
Experience with AI-native products, AI-powered experiences, personalization systems, or emerging technologies strongly preferred.
Demonstrated success mentoring and developing designers preferred.
Experience designing large-scale consumer platforms, ecosystems, or multi-product experiences preferred.
Experience in sports, media, entertainment, streaming, gaming, or consumer technology preferred.
Preferred
Experience designing for live sports, highlights, second-screen, stats, community, or socially driven fan experiences
Experience with motion, prototyping, or storytelling tools that help bring concepts to life
Strong understanding of personalization, notifications, content discovery, or fan engagement patterns
Passion for sports and strong instincts for what resonates with distinct fan bases and communities
How We Get Things Done…
This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.
Championing Inclusion at WBD
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.If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.
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: $129,500.00 - $240,500.00 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.If you’re a qualified candidate with an arrest or conviction record, please know that your application will be considered in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
