Fanaticscollectibles
Lead Designer, Topps.com
Los Angeles, CA, United States; New York, NY, United States. Posted 7 months ago
The role
This Lead Product & Brand Designer will transform Topps.com from a traditional e-commerce site into a destination for collectors through storytelling, content, and interaction. You will work across user journeys, commerce experiences, design systems, and brand expression.
What you will do
- Design and evolve key experiences across Topps.com from discovery to post-purchase
- Partner with Product and Engineering to improve usability and interaction patterns
- Reimagine product pages as collector destinations
- Balance storytelling and visual expression with clarity, accessibility, and performance
- Prototype new concepts to move from ideas to shippable experiences
- Bring products and stories to life through immersive digital experiences
- Use motion and interaction to make Topps.com feel dynamic
- Translate the Topps brand into scalable patterns for digital product experiences
- Provide creative direction and constructive feedback
- Mentor other designers and raise the standard of craft
Required qualifications
- 8–10+ years of design experience with demonstrated product or UX design work
- Hybrid designer combining product thinking with visual craft
- Comfortable moving from user flows and information architecture to detailed UI and interaction design
- Experienced designing responsive web and e-commerce experiences
- Systems thinker who can create distinctive experiences that scale
- Skilled at translating brand strategy into functional product design
- Comfortable partnering closely with Product Managers and Engineers
- Strong in both concept and execution, from early prototypes to pixel-level polish
- Experienced using storytelling, motion, and interaction to improve digital experiences
- Proactive, hands-on designer
- Portfolios must include strong product and UX work, flows, systems, interfaces, and shipped digital experiences
Nice to have
- Passionate about the hobby, or excited to become deeply immersed in it
About the company
Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. Topps has defined the trading card hobby for generations.