This role is dedicated to being a key part of the design process and development for the Cortex Fan Experience and Cortex Cast teams. This is a crucial role within the business to help drive data-driven and user-centric decision-making into the development of the Cortex Cast product and all products within the Cortex Fan Experience team.
Working as a Product Designer in these teams, you will need to collaborate with stakeholders across various levels, from Product Managers, developers and other
Cortex Product Designers to ensure business and end user needs are well-represented and understood.
You will be required to guide and lead the design direction for product development within these teams, that adhere to the long-term strategy and immediate product
development goals.
Your focus will be on creating user-centric solutions through research, testing, and data-driven insights. Working closely with developers, you will need to ensure designs
meet technical constraints and are implemented effectively.
You will also be a key part of the team to manage and evolve the Cortex Ennis Design System and Cortex Cast Design System to maintain consistency, confidently presenting and iterating on your work to drive innovative solutions.
Design sports industry specific products that solve our B2B user's problems and help them achieve their goals.
Communicate with a range of different types of internal stakeholders within the business to advocate and ensure our user's design needs and business goals are understood.
Guide the overall design direction for all relevant product developments, contributing to long-term product strategies while balancing immediate product developments.
Ensure our products are truly user-centric by conducting user research and testing when required.
Use metrics and analytics to assess design performance and success, helping to continuously improve user experiences based on data-driven insights.
Gain a good grasp of development processes and tools, working closely with engineers to ensure that designs are implemented as intended and meet technical constraints.
Manage and evolve design systems, ensuring consistency and scalability across teams and products.
Confidently present work, clearly articulating the reasoning behind your design decisions to the relevant team members and internal stakeholders.
Help shape the new Cortex brand and make an impact in the sports industry through the products that are being developed.
Create and iterate, learning from previous developments to develop new and innovative solutions.
Proven experience of conducting research and UX design for SaaS platforms.
A strong portfolio demonstrating user-centred design process and measurable outcomes.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities, able to collaborate effectively with Product Managers, developers, and other teams.
Strong understanding of user research and testing methodologies to ensure user-centric design.
Data-driven approach to assess and improve design performance using metrics and analytics.
Experience in managing and evolving design systems, ensuring scalability and consistency across products.
Creativity and a solution-oriented mindset to continuously iterate and innovate based on prior learnings.
A proficient use of Figma and other software tools to complete research and testing such as Maze, Hot Jar and others.
A knowledge of football, rugby, cricket and other sports would be an asset to bring to the role as well.
Confidence in presenting design work and explaining design decisions to various teams.
Experience of being self-sufficient and working in a startup environment.
The Cortex story began in 2015 when CEO Aidan met CTO Ciaran in the innovation laboratories of a university campus outside the youthful, tech-savvy city of Brighton, United Kingdom. Together with the start-up development team, they began to build a solution to a market problem, building technology to create more connected digital ecosystems.
After 9 years developing the product suite in direct partnership with customers, Cortex was launched in 2024 to better serve the digitally diverse sports industry as a quick-to-deploy SaaS platform for data and revenue driven sports marketing.
Cortex products are used by multiple top tier sports organisations and clubs including; Arsenal FC, Formula 1, ECB, the Hundred, Euroleague Basketball, URC, Premiership Rugby, RL Commercial, SA20 and SportFive and well as leading solutions agencies like UNRVLD, Strut Digital, Playfly and Skylark Creative.
Cortex customers are using fully connected technologies to create seamless user journeys, optimise digital fan experiences and unlock new commercial opportunities enabling revenue to flow and their businesses to thrive.
This is a rare opportunity to be part of a fast-growing start-up business offering a lot of progression potential, opportunity and personal growth.
The recruitment process will focus primarily on your values and energy for the role.
Send your CV and something that shows why you’re the perfect person for the job! This can be anything; a supporting email, a video or perhaps a case study of previous work….. the team wants to find out more about you.
Please email everything to jobs@cortextech.io
