Senior Product Designer, Motion

Headquarters: United States/Remote At Underdog, we make sports more fun.Our thesis is simple: build the best products and we’ll build the biggest company in the space, because there’s so much more to be built for sports fans. We’re just over five years in, and we’re one of the fastest-growing sports companies ever, most recently valued at $1.3B. And it’s still the early days.We’ve built and scaled multiple games and products across fantasy sports, sports betting, and prediction markets, all united in one seamless, simple, easy to use, intuitive and fun app. Underdog isn’t for everyone. One of our core values is give a sh*t. The people who win here are the ones who care, push, and perform. If that’s you, come join us.Winning as an Underdog is more fun.We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer specializing in motion design to shape how our product moves, responds, and feels. You’ll use motion to clarify complex interactions, guide attention, communicate system status, and add craft to every touchpoint without sacrificing performance or accessibility. You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, Product Design, and Brand to define a motion language that scales across our experiences.What you’ll doCollaborate on and lead motion design across the product: define principles, patterns, and guidelines for interaction and UI motion.Design high-quality microinteractions (transitions, state changes, loading/empty states, feedback, onboarding moments) that improve usability and delight.Prototype early and often using motion-forward tools to explore interaction models and validate concepts quickly.Partner deeply with engineers to ensure motion is implemented accurately, efficiently, and accessibly; provide specs and support QA.Create reusable motion components and contribute to the design system (tokens, curves/easing, durations, choreography rules).Improve product comprehension with motion that communicates hierarchy, cause/effect, and status (errors, success