Principal Designer, Sports & Playback Experience – Global Streaming

Our Media Group portfolio is a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands, supported by media industry leaders, Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky. When you join our team, you’ll work across our dynamic portfolio including Peacock, NOW, SkyShowtime, Showmax, and TV Everywhere, powering streaming across more than 70 countries globally. And the evolution doesn’t stop there. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We’re always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth and consistently offer the very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we’re backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive.

The Viewing Product team lives and breathes design excellence. We’re a cross-functional team of product managers, UX researchers, UX designers, product engineers, and data scientists. Here you’ll find more than a job. You’ll find a fast-paced, high-performance team of incredible colleagues that want to be at the epicenter of technology, sports, news, TV, movies and more. Our work is central to our mission to deliver a future-focused user experience across our best-in-class streaming platforms. Together, we’re focused on getting customers to content they love, faster and easier. 

What You’ll Do:

As a Principal Designer on the Playback Experience team, you will define the vision, strategy, and design direction for the product areas that shape how audiences experience live content and entertainment on Peacock. You’ll guide multiple projects and designers to ensure alignment with our organization’s goals, design principles, and long-term product vision.

Our team is focused on delivering best-in-class sports and playback experiences across TV, Web, and Mobile. From live events and dynamic data integrations to intuitive replays, highlights, and lean-back viewing, you’ll help craft experiences that meet viewers where they are and elevate how they watch.

This role requires a visionary design leader who can translate user needs, whether during a high-energy game or a relaxed viewing session, into elegant, impactful, cross-platform experiences. You’ll drive innovation, foster collaboration across disciplines, and shape the future of how audiences watch and connect with Peacock.

As a Principal Designer, you will:

• Deliver production-ready UX designs aligned with overarching business and UX goals for domestic and international audiences.
• Identify actionable insights and ensure they align with long-term design and product strategies.
• Drive stakeholder and leadership alignment around research insights and design decisions.
• Rapidly drive progress of existing work (experience designs, UX guides, information architecture, visual designs, etc.) to project completion.
• Collaborate with the larger UX team around ideation and concept explorations throughout project lifecycles; you’ll facilitate and drive UX solutions, discussions, and planning while maintaining project oversight.
• Lead others. Grow talent. Provide creative direction and mentorship to designers and define patterns and practices for the team and the product. Share findings with fellow designers and capture findings in visual form.
• Maintain a critical eye and an obsessive attention to detail.