Description
About Betfair Romania Development:
Betfair Romania Development is the largest technology hub of Flutter Entertainment, with over 2,000 people powering the world’s leading sports betting and iGaming brands. Exciting, immersive and safe experiences are delivered to over 18 million customers worldwide, from our office in Cluj-Napoca. Driven by relentless innovation and commitment to excellence, we operate our own unbeatable portfolio of diverse proprietary brands such as FanDuel, PokerStars, SportsBet, Betfair, Paddy Power, or Sky Betting & Gaming.
Our Values:
The values we share at Betfair Romania Development define what makes us unique as a team. They empower us by giving meaning to our contributions, and they ensure that we consistently strive for excellence in everything we do. We are looking for passionate individuals who align with our values and are committed to making a difference.
Win together | Raise the bar | Got your back | Own it | Positive impact
About FanDuel:
FanDuel is a leading force in the sports-tech entertainment industry, redefining how fans engage with their favourite sports, teams, and leagues. As the premier gaming destination in North America, FanDuel operates across multiple verticals, including sports betting, daily fantasy sports, online gaming, advance-deposit wagering, and media.
Role Overview:
FanDuel is looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our Casino UX&D team. In this role, you'll lead the design of complex, high-impact product experiences across Web, iOS, and Android, partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Research, Data, and Commercial teams to solve customer problems and deliver measurable business outcomes. You'll take ownership of initiatives from discovery through delivery, navigating ambiguity, shaping product direction, and using customer insights, experimentation, and performance data to inform decisions and continuously improve experiences.
As a senior member of the team, you'll help raise the quality and impact of design across the organisation through mentorship, design critique, and cross-functional leadership. You'll champion user-centred design, responsible gaming principles, and modern design practices, including the use of AI-powered tools to accelerate ideation, prototyping, and delivery. We're looking for a designer with exceptional craft, strong product thinking, and the ability to influence stakeholders, drive alignment, and create best-in-class customer experiences at scale.
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:
Design Excellence
- Lead the design of complex, high-impact product initiatives across Web, iOS and Android, balancing customer needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
- Set a high bar for craft, visual quality, and usability, delivering polished experiences that demonstrate exceptional attention to detail.
- Apply expert knowledge of visual hierarchy, layout, typography, information architecture, accessibility, and responsive design principles.
- Champion scalable design solutions through effective use of design systems, component libraries, and platform conventions.
- Identify opportunities to improve product consistency and quality across journeys, features, and touchpoints.
- Provide constructive design critique and guidance that elevates the quality of work across the wider team.
AI Design Practice
- Integrate AI into the end-to-end design process, accelerating discovery, ideation, prototyping, validation, and delivery.
- Act as a role model for AI-enabled design practices, helping establish standards, workflows, and best practices within the team.
- Explore emerging AI capabilities to improve both player experiences and internal product development processes.
- Leverage tools such as Cursor, Figma Make, and other AI-powered design and prototyping tools to increase efficiency and innovation.
- Educate stakeholders and design peers on opportunities, limitations, and responsible use of AI within product design.
User Research & Insights
- Lead research activities to uncover customer needs, behaviors, motivations, and pain points using qualitative and quantitative methods.
- Partner closely with UX researchers, analysts, and product teams to shape research plans and define learning objectives.
- Synthesize insights from usability testing, interviews, analytics, experimentation, and market research into actionable product opportunities.
- Validate solutions through testing and experimentation, ensuring decisions are grounded in customer evidence.
- Build and maintain a deep understanding of player behavior, motivations, and responsible gaming considerations within Casino products.
Design Leadership
Lead design efforts on projects with significant scope, complexity, and ambiguity, operating with a high degree of autonomy.
- Drive alignment across cross-functional stakeholders, influencing product strategy and helping teams make informed decisions.
- Facilitate workshops, design reviews, discovery sessions, and strategic discussions to move initiatives forward.
- Mentor and coach Product Designers, providing guidance on craft, process, stakeholder management, and career development.
- Contribute to hiring, interviewing, onboarding, and talent development activities to help build a world-class design organization.
- Identify risks, dependencies, and opportunities early, proactively shaping solutions and delivery approaches.
Interaction Design & Continuous Improvement
- Design sophisticated user flows, interaction models, and cross-platform experiences that solve complex user problems.
- Create and communicate interactive prototypes that effectively validate concepts, align stakeholders, and support engineering implementation.
- Continuously evaluate product performance using research, analytics, experimentation, and customer feedback.
- Drive iterative improvements to existing experiences, balancing short-term optimization with long-term product vision.
- Clearly communicate design rationale, trade-offs, and recommendations to stakeholders at all levels.
Design Advocacy & Culture
- Champion user-centered design principles and advocate for the customer throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Promote responsible gaming design practices that support player safety and long-term engagement.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, inclusion, curiosity, and continuous learning within the design team.
- Contribute to the evolution of design systems, processes, standards, and ways of working.
- Act as a trusted design partner to Product, Engineering, Research, and Commercial stakeholders, helping raise design maturity across the organization.
Industry & Domain Experience
- Demonstrate strong expertise in online gaming, entertainment, or similarly complex digital product environments.
- Apply deep domain knowledge to anticipate customer expectations, market trends, competitive threats, and emerging opportunities.
- Understand the commercial, regulatory, and responsible gaming considerations that influence product decisions within the Casino industry.
- Use industry insight to identify product gaps, improve customer experiences, and inform strategic recommendations.
- Maintain awareness of competitor experiences, emerging technologies, and evolving player behaviors.
Motion Design & Animation
- Design purposeful motion systems, transitions, and micro-interactions that improve usability, comprehension, and product delight.
- Use animation strategically to communicate state changes, feedback, hierarchy, and progression throughout the user journey.
- Collaborate with engineers to ensure motion design is technically feasible, performant, and consistent across platforms.
- Contribute to motion design standards and best practices within the broader design system.
- Leverage advanced prototyping techniques to demonstrate and validate interaction concepts before implementation.
Skills, Capabilities & Experience Required:
- Significant experience designing and shipping digital products, with a strong portfolio demonstrating ownership of complex end-to-end experiences and measurable customer or business impact.
- Expert proficiency in Figma and modern design workflows, with experience creating high-fidelity designs, interactive prototypes, and scalable design solutions across Web and native mobile platforms.
- Extensive experience designing for both iOS and responsive web experiences, with a strong understanding of platform conventions, accessibility standards, and cross-platform design considerations.
- Exceptional visual and interaction design skills, with deep expertise in information architecture, layout, typography, visual hierarchy, and crafting polished customer experiences.
- Demonstrated ability to lead projects with significant scope, complexity, and ambiguity, driving alignment across stakeholders and influencing product direction through design.
- Strong product thinking with the ability to balance customer needs, business objectives, technical constraints, and responsible gaming considerations when making design decisions.
- Experience leveraging qualitative and quantitative research, experimentation, analytics, and customer insights to identify opportunities, validate solutions, and measure success.
- Proven ability to communicate design rationale and strategic recommendations through compelling storytelling, facilitation, and stakeholder management at multiple levels of the organization.
- A track record of mentoring designers, contributing to design culture, and helping raise the quality of work across teams through feedback, coaching, and collaboration.
- Experience using AI-powered tools and emerging technologies to accelerate discovery, ideation, prototyping, and delivery, while helping shape best practices for AI-enabled design workflows.
- Passion for creating industry-leading gaming experiences, with strong attention to detail, curiosity about customer behavior, and a continuous drive to improve products and ways of working.
- Advanced level of English skills.
Benefits:
- Hybrid working options
- €1,000 per year for self-development
- Company share scheme
- 25 days of annual leave per year
- 20 days per year to work abroad
- 5 personal days/year
- Flexible benefits: travel, sports, hobbies
- Extended health, dental and travel insurances
- Customized well-being programmes
- Career growth sessions
- Thousands of online courses through Udemy
- A variety of engaging office events
Disclaimer:
We are an inclusive employer. By embracing diverse experiences and perspectives, we create a lasting, positive impact for our employees, customers, and the communities we’re part of. You don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role. If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you, let us know, and we’ll see how we can accommodate them.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only the candidates who best meet the job requirements will be contacted for an interview.
By submitting your application online, you agree that your details will be used to progress your application for employment. If your application is successful, your details will be used to administer your personnel record. If your application is unsuccessful, we will retain your details for a period no longer than three years, to consider you for prospective roles within the company.
