Senior Product Designer, MapMy

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Outside is an outdoor media, technology, subscription and events platform operating a connected portfolio of brands, mapping apps, subscription products, travel software and live events.

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<div class="content-intro"><p>ARE YOU READY TO TAKE YOUR CAREER TO NEW HEIGHTS? ARE YOU SEEKING A NEW CHALLENGE IN A DYNAMIC SECTOR?&nbsp;</p> <p>This is a very exciting and highly innovative time here at Outside.</p> <p>OUR TRUE NORTH:Outside Interactive, Inc., the premier hub for active lifestyle enthusiasts, offers best-in-class content and experiences to more than 70 million of the world’s most passionate outdoor, wellness, and endurance enthusiasts every month. We inspire a broad and diverse audience to do the activities they love with greater enjoyment, inspiration, and knowledge and are dedicated to making real change in the outdoor and fitness industries.</p></div><p>This role sits within Outside's Consumer Apps organization, which owns the strategy, growth, and product experience across Outside's consumer-facing applications, including fitness, mapping, consumer travel, and commerce-adjacent experiences.</p> <p>The MapMy platform, including MapMyRun, MapMyWalk, MapMyRide, and MapMyFitness, serves millions of active users and is a core pillar of Consumer Apps. MapMy products help members track workouts, discover routes, set goals, and stay motivated across a range of fitness activities.</p> <p>We are hiring a <strong>Senior Product Designer, MapMy</strong> to set the design vision across the MapMy product portfolio and to define what modern, AI-accelerated design practice looks like within our organization.</p> <p>This is a role for a seasoned designer who sees AI not as a novelty but as a force multiplier they have already built into their daily craft. You conduct user research, ship polished UI in Figma, and stand up functional prototypes with AI-assisted code generation to test ideas before a sprint begins. You move fast, explore broadly, and use every tool at your disposal to close the gap between insight and experience.</p> <p>You will own MapMy design end-to-end. You will set the strategic design direction for the portfolio, drive the craft bar higher, and mentor designers across Consumer Apps. You bring conviction, taste, and a track record of shipping consumer experiences at scale.</p> <p>You will operate with autonomy in ambiguous problem spaces, partner directly with Product and Engineering leadership, and help shape a lean, AI-empowered design practice that others want to learn from.</p> <p><strong>What You'll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead end-to-end design across MapMy's mobile (iOS/Android) and web experiences, owning the highest-leverage surfaces from problem framing through delivery.</li> <li>Define and evolve an AI-accelerated design practice, using tools like Claude, Cursor, and v0 as a core part of daily workflow for ideation, prototyping, and iteration.</li> <li>Build functional, interactive prototypes quickly to validate concepts with real users and stakeholders.</li> <li>Own the MapMy design system and component library, raising consistency and quality across the product suite.</li> <li>Drive the research agenda in partnership with Product — leading interviews, usability tests, and competitive analysis to ground decisions in real user needs.</li> <li>Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data leadership to align design strategy with business goals.</li> <li>Mentor mid-level and junior designers, lead design reviews, and raise the craft bar across the team.</li> <li>Define design success metrics and lead post-launch analysis using A/B results, funnel data, and qualitative feedback.</li> <li>Deliver polished design specs, redlines, and asset handoffs — supplemented with interactive prototypes when they tell the story better.</li> <li>Set the visual, interaction, and motion standards for MapMy, ensuring all work meets WCAG accessibility guidelines.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>What We're Looking For:</strong></p> <p><strong>Required Experience</strong></p> <ul> <li>7+ years shipping consumer-facing mobile or web products, with a portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design leadership from problem framing through shipped outcomes.</li> <li>Expert Figma proficiency and fluent, daily use of AI tools in your design workflow.</li> <li>Deep understanding of iOS, Android, and responsive web design principles.</li> <li>Track record of collaborating with senior Product, Engineering, and Data leaders in an agile environment, with experience mentoring designers.</li> <li>Strong communicator who can articulate design rationale and tradeoffs to executive and cross-functional audiences.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Craft &amp; Technical Fluency</strong></p> <ul> <li>Mastery of typography, color, layout, and interaction design, with experience building or scaling design systems.</li> <li>Ability to build functional prototypes using AI code-generation tools — you can get a working demo in front of users on your own.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Mindset &amp; Approach</strong></p> <ul> <li>Sets direction in ambiguity, defaults to showing over telling, and brings conviction and taste to what gets built.</li> <li>Curious, experimental, and energized by new tools — low ego, high standards.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice to Have</strong></p> <ul> <li>Background in fitness, health, or GPS/mapping; familiarity with motion design tools; working knowledge of HTML/CSS/JS; experience with advanced research methods and data-informed design practices.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>What We Offer:</strong></p> <p>Entirely remote jobs that could be performed in Colorado: Employees can expect to be paid a salary of&nbsp; between $120,000 to $150,000. &nbsp;Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission . Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, Flexible Time Away,&nbsp; sick leave, and more.&nbsp; This salary range is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant’s location, market data/ranges, an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors.</p><div class="content-conclusion"><p>We are