DraftKings

Lead Product Designer, Platform

DraftKings$148K — $185K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Design or equivalent experience
  • At least 6 years of experience in digital product design
  • Proven record leading large-scale initiatives
  • Strong portfolio showcasing product design and systems thinking
  • Expertise in interaction design and design systems
  • Experience with product strategy and roadmap planning
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and create structured solutions
  • Exceptional communication and storytelling skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead design for complex product areas with significant cross-team impact
  • Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to shape product vision
  • Clarify ambiguous problem spaces with actionable design approaches
  • Deliver high-quality designs balancing user needs and business goals
  • Guide teams in applying and evolving design patterns for scalability
  • Influence design direction through storytelling and strategic critique
  • Partner with Engineering to understand technical constraints and dependencies
  • Mentor designers and enhance the culture of the design organization

Benefits

  • Guidance through the gaming license acquisition process
  • Opportunity to work in a high-impact, regulated tech environment
  • Access to equity and bonus opportunities
  • Involvement in shaping long-term product direction
  • Collaboration with diverse teams across product and engineering
Full Job Description
The Crown Is Yours

As a Lead Product Designer, you'll drive the design vision and execution for one of our most impactful platform product areas, shaping shared capabilities and experiences that scale across teams. In this strategic role, you'll work across teams and disciplines to define long-term product direction, lead complex design efforts, and create reusable patterns and systems that support high-quality execution at scale. You'll elevate the quality of our work through influence, feedback, and systems thinking while mentoring others and delivering exceptional design yourself. This is an opportunity to own meaningful outcomes, guide the craft across teams, and push the boundaries of what great product design looks like.

What You'll Do
  • Lead design for complex product surfaces, platform capabilities, or strategic initiatives with broad business and cross-team impact, balancing multiple workstreams at once if needed.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional leaders across Product, Engineering, Research, Analytics, Operations, and partner product teams to shape vision and define strategy.
  • Bring clarity to ambiguous problem spaces by structuring actionable design approaches for complex workflows, shared systems, and scalable experiences.
  • Deliver high-quality design from concept through execution that balances user needs with business goals.
  • Guide teams in applying and evolving design system patterns, platform standards, and reusable interaction models for consistency and scalability.
  • Influence product and design direction through storytelling, framing, and strategic critique.
  • Partner closely with Engineering to understand technical constraints, dependencies, and implementation tradeoffs that shape scalable platform experiences.
  • Set quality standards, provide detailed design feedback, and elevate the work of peers and junior designers.
  • Mentor other designers and help grow the culture, craft, and impact of the broader design organization.

What You'll Bring
  • Bachelor's degree in Design or any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
  • At least 6 years of experience designing digital products, with a proven track record leading large-scale, platform, or high-impact initiatives.
  • A portfolio that demonstrates end-to-end product design, systems thinking, scalable solutions, and measurable business outcomes.
  • Deep fluency in interaction design, product thinking, systems thinking, and the use of design systems.
  • Experience shaping product strategy and influencing roadmap planning in partnership with cross-functional teams.
  • Experience designing shared platforms, internal tools, enterprise workflows, or products that serve multiple user groups or downstream teams.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and create structure in complex or undefined problem spaces.
  • Exceptional communication, facilitation, and storytelling skills that align and inspire stakeholders.
  • Experience mentoring and coaching designers while contributing to team culture and craft excellence.


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Join Our Team

We're a publicly traded (NASDAQ: DKNG) technology company headquartered in Boston. As a regulated gaming company, you may be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment. Don't worry, we'll guide you through the process if this is relevant to your role.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is 148,000.00 USD - 185,000.00 USD, plus bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable. Our ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The compensation information displayed on each job posting reflects the range for new hire pay rates for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range and how that was determined during the hiring process.

About DraftKings

DraftKings is an American daily fantasy sports contest and sports betting operator. The company allows users to enter daily and weekly fantasy sports–related contests and win money based on individual player performances in five major American sports, Premier League and UEFA Champions League soccer, NASCAR auto racing, Canadian Football League, the XFL, mixed martial arts and Tennis. In August 2018, DraftKings launched DraftKings Sportsbook in New Jersey becoming the first legal mobile sports betting operator in the state. Since launching in New Jersey, DraftKings has opened mobile sports betting operations in Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and opened in New Hampshire December 30, 2019 after reaching contract with the New Hampshire Lottery. Retail sports betting is available in Iowa, Mississippi and New York. DraftKings Sportsbook mobile and retail sports betting products allow bettors in each state engage in betting for most major U.S. and international sports. As of April 2016, the majority of U.S. states consider fantasy sports a game of skill and not gambling. In November 2016, FanDuel and DraftKings, the two largest companies in the daily fantasy sports industry, reached an agreement to merge. However the merger was terminated in July 2017 due to it being blocked by the Federal Trade Commission as the combined company would have controlled a 90 percent of the market for daily fantasy sports. As of July 2017, DraftKings had eight million users.
Learn more about DraftKings
Size
3,400 employees
Market Cap
$4.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$577.9 million
Revenue
$292.3 million
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