Sports Design Lead

Sports is one of Polymarket's biggest growth vectors. We have active league partnerships and a product that maps naturally onto the sports betting and fan engagement space. What we don't yet have is someone who owns the creative layer of that entirely. This role exists to fix that.

Responsibilities

Lead creative across all sports and league partnership activations, including co-branded campaigns, in-app integrations, paid social, display, CTV, and event assets; Build and maintain partner-ready design systems: templates, toolkits, and brand frameworks that let the team activate quickly without starting from scratch each time; Own licensing compliance across all sports creative, navigating league brand guidelines, marks usage, player imagery restrictions, and co-branding rules throughout the production process; Manage partner-side creative reviews and approval workflows with league and media contacts, keeping feedback loops tight without letting them slow output; Brief, direct, and QA motion designers on partner creative across social and CTV, raising the quality bar across the team while staying hands-on yourself; Collaborate with performance marketing to iterate on paid social creative using live data, scaling what works and cutting what doesn't

Requirements

Proven experience leading design for sports or league partnership activations, with a portfolio that shows real co-branded creative work at scale; Hands-on experience navigating licensing and rights compliance, including league brand guidelines, marks usage, and player imagery restrictions; Portfolio that spans paid social (Meta and TikTok), display, CTV, and experiential or event assets; Experience directing and QA-ing creative output from other designers, not just managing your own workload; A sharp point of view on sports visual identity. You know what makes sports creative feel considered versus generic, and your past work shows it; Comfort moving from brief to live in fast-moving, high-visibility environments where ambiguity is the norm and timelines are real; Strong communication skills for managing external partner relationships and internal cross-functional feedback cycles

Nice to have

Experience designing within or alongside an official major league partnership context (NFL, NBA, MLB, or equivalent); Familiarity with prediction markets, sports betting, or financial product design; Experience working with or briefing motion designers on broadcast-adjacent creative formats

Benefits

Competitive salary & equity; Unlimited PTO; Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage; 401k match; Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories