Product Design Leader

Kitman Labs is a global human performance company, disrupting and transforming the way the sports industry uses data to increase the performance of the world's top athletes.

Driven by a passion to innovate in the areas of sports performance, analytics and user experience, we have assembled a team of the industry’s top data scientists, sports performance scientists, product specialists and engineers. The company received recognition by Fast Company in 2019 as one of the most innovative companies in the world.

Kitman Labs’ advanced Outcome-driven Analytics and Performance Intelligence Platform are used by over 700 teams in 50 leagues on 6 continents spanning soccer, rugby, American football, baseball and ice hockey.

We are hiring a Product Design Leader to shape the next phase of our platform. This role is responsible for leading, evolving, and modernising our design function in an AI native environment.

This is a hands‑on leadership role. You will lead a small but experienced design team while also personally delivering design work on priority initiatives. We are looking for someone who has managed designers, matured a design capability, and shipped meaningful products into the market. You understand how AI is reshaping product experience, user expectations, and competitive advantage. Most importantly, you have shipped AI‑enabled features that are live, adopted, and delivering measurable value.

Our platform supports elite sports organisations making critical decisions around performance, health, and operations. In this context, design is not aesthetic polish. It determines how intelligence is interpreted, how risk is communicated, and how confidently users act under pressure.

This role reports directly to the VP for Product Strategy and Innovation, with a clear mandate to lead design as a first class function. You will partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Data Science as a peer leader, shaping platform direction and defining how AI becomes a trusted and differentiating part of our experience. You will bring a clear perspective on where AI driven UX is heading and how we should evolve to meet it.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high performing design team.
• Set clear standards for craft, quality, and impact.
• Embed design deeply within cross functional squads, ensuring influence from discovery through to delivery.
• Introduce modern, AI assisted design workflows to improve speed, iteration, and experimentation.
• Recruit and structure the team to support strategic priorities.
• Contribute directly to design execution on key initiatives, particularly where speed, ambiguity, or complexity demands senior craft.

You will be accountable for elevating the overall design function and delivering meaningful outcomes.

• Define how AI capabilities are expressed in product experiences, including summarisation, predictive insight, decision support, and workflow automation.
• Translate complex data science outputs into clear, trusted, and explainable user interactions.
• Design patterns that communicate confidence levels, uncertainty, and human oversight in AI systems.
• Establish practical principles for responsible AI within the user experience, including transparency, feedback loops, and guardrails.
• Personally lead design for AI enabled initiatives from discovery through to release and iteration.
• Must have led the design of significant AI based capabilities, such as:
  • LLM driven summarisation or insight generation
  • Predictive scoring, risk modelling, or recommendation systems
  • AI powered search or knowledge retrieval
  • Automation that meaningfully reduces user workload
• We are looking for clear evidence of delivery and impact in live environments in your portfolio.

• Bring a clear perspective on how AI will evolve UX over the next 2 to 5 years, and translate that into practical product direction.
• Explore and prototype emerging interaction models such as conversational UI, voice, multimodal interaction, and agentic workflows.
• Define when new interaction models create genuine user value in complex and time sensitive environments.
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