Product Designer in Manchester

Kitman Labs is the performance intelligence company, disrupting and transforming the way the sports industry uses data to unlock the potential 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. Kitman Labs' advanced Intelligence Platform (iP) is now used by over 2000 teams in 50 leagues on 6 continents, including the NFL, Premier League, National Women's Soccer League and MLS.

The Role

We are hiring a Product Designer to help shape the next phase of our platform. This role is for a thoughtful, highly capable mid-level designer who can work across discovery, interaction design, prototyping, and delivery in an increasingly AI native product environment. This is a hands-on role. You will work closely with Product Management, Engineering, Data Science, and other designers to solve complex workflow, data, and usability challenges across our platform.

We are looking for someone who combines strong product and UX fundamentals with the ability to move quickly, think in systems, and use modern AI enabled design workflows to accelerate learning and iteration. 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 information is understood, how complexity is reduced, and how confidently users can act in fast moving, high pressure environments.

You should be comfortable working from ambiguity to clarity, balancing user needs, business priorities, and technical constraints. You should also bring practical experience using generative AI design tools and lightweight code based, “vibe coded” prototypes as part of the design process, particularly to explore ideas faster, test concepts earlier, and improve collaboration with engineers.

You will join a small, experienced, highly collaborative design team. We work across the product, partnering with squads where the greatest value and innovation can be delivered. We are looking for someone proactive, self-directed, and motivated to drive work to a high standard and conclusion.

What you will own

• Product Design Delivery
  • Contribute across the design process, from discovery through to final UI and iteration
  • Create user flows, wireframes, high fidelity designs, and prototypes for complex product and workflow challenges
  • Work closely with Product Managers and Engineers to shape solutions that are useful, usable, and feasible
  • Help ensure shipped experiences meet a high bar for clarity, consistency, and quality
• Discovery and Collaboration
  • Participate in discovery work to help define problems, evaluate opportunities, and test solution options
  • Conduct and support user research, workflow analysis, and usability testing
  • Translate feedback and product signals into practical design improvements
  • Collaborate effectively across Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Design, contributing to critiques and day to day product decisions
• AI Enabled Design Practice
  • Use generative AI design tools to accelerate ideation, iteration, and prototyping
  • Create lightweight code based, “vibe coded” prototypes where useful to explore interaction patterns and communicate ideas more effectively
  • Apply judgement about when AI assisted or code backed prototyping adds value, and when more traditional design methods are the better fit
  • Contribute to the evolution of design patterns and system quality as part of a modern, AI aware design practice

What we are looking for

• Experience
  • 7+ years in a software product design role.
  • Bachelor's degree in Design, HCI, or equivalent practical experience.
  • An excellent online portfolio showcasing thinking, UX, UI, and visual design.
  • Experience working closely with development teams to build web products.
  • Ideal candidates will have prior experience in the sports industry.
  • End to end experience from initial research through to design of user journeys.
  • Experience in sport, performance, healthcare, or similarly high consequence domains is advantageous.
• AI and Technical Fluency
  • Strong experience using generative AI design tools as part of day to day design work.
  • Practical experience creating lightweight code based or “vibe coded” prototypes to explore and communicate product ideas.
  • Familiarity with tools such as Figma Make and modern prototyping environments, including those used alongside platforms such as Vercel.
  • Working knowledge of LLM based systems, predictive models, and AI driven product features.
  • Comfort designing for explainability, human oversight, and trust where AI is involved.
  • Curiosity about emerging interaction models such as conversational UI, voice, multimodal input, and agent like workflows.
• Craft and Systems Thinking
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating strategic thinking, UX depth, and visual clarity.
  • Demonstrated systems thinking, with the ability to design coherent experiences across complex and interconnected workflows.
  • Experience building or scaling a design system.
  • Ability to operate at both platform and interaction level detail.
  • Clear communication of trade offs and design rationale.

Ways of Working

• Proactive, collaborative, and motivated to drive work to a high standard and conclusion.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and helping create clarity.
• Open to feedback and able to engage constructively in critique and iteration.
• Able to balance speed and quality in a fast moving product environment.
• Strong ownership mindset without needing formal authority.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health insurance for employee & dependants
• Meaningful equity
• Pension Plan
• Life Cover
• Income protection
• Wellbeing benefits

Location

While this role allows for remote work, occasional face-to-face gathering is recommended.

Diversity

In addition to building a team with diverse skill-sets, Kitman Labs is committed to hiring people with diverse backgrounds. We do not discriminate based on age, civil or family status, disability, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation. If you are a person with a disability and require assistance during the application process, please let us know. You can find information about how we process, share and keep your personal data safe by reading our privacy policy.