Job Posting: New York Mets Baseball Systems Positions
Please note that this posting contains three positions.
Position: Product Designer, Baseball Systems
Department: Baseball Systems
Supervisor: Director, Baseball Systems
Location: Citi Field; Flushing, NY
Summary:
The New York Mets are seeking a Product Designer. This designer will work with leadership to design and own the user experience of mobile and web applications that enrich the Mets data ecosystem and inform decision-making within Baseball Operations. This position requires a designer that is comfortable designing low- and high-fidelity mockups for a wide array of stakeholders within Baseball Operations. The ideal candidate would have a strong grasp of modern design tools with prior experience rapid prototyping and working collaboratively within a software engineering team. Prior experience in or knowledge of baseball is a plus but is not required.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with leadership, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements and provide thoughtful solutions
- Own the product design process for the Baseball Systems department from ideation to iteration
- Own the organizational style guide and design standards for baseball-oriented tools
- Facilitate user interviews and testing across the organization to validate the development and adoption of new tools and features
- Provide high-level design strategy to help drive the organization’s ability to capture and leverage data to improve player outcomes
- Enrich product development sprints by infusing feature work with a consistent and empathetic design expertise
- Adapt the speed and fidelity of design work to the phase of product design and development, e.g. capability to rapidly prototype or refine high-end mocks as necessary
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of relevant work experience in product design, strategy, and vision
- Portfolio of UX and interface design projects
- Strong proficiency in the Adobe suite and collaborative design and prototyping tools
- Ability to work cooperatively with others, and to take control of large-scale projects with little daily oversight
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Prior experience in front-end development, including CSS, is a plus
- Prior experience in baseball is a plus
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Position: Software Engineer, Baseball Systems
Department: Baseball Systems
Supervisor: Director, Baseball Systems
Location: Citi Field; Flushing, NY
Summary:
The New York Mets are seeking a Software Engineer. This engineer will design, build, test, and deploy mobile and web applications that enrich the Mets data ecosystem and inform decision-making within Baseball Operations. This position requires strong background in mobile and web development. The ideal candidate would be a strong engineering generalist with prior experience building rapid prototypes and comfort in working on UX-focused products for users with varying levels of technical familiarity. Prior experience in or knowledge of baseball is a plus but is not required.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Develop exciting user-facing applications by designing, building, and deploying reliable, readable code for platforms within Baseball Operations
- Collaborate with a variety of internal stakeholders to validate designs and facilitate clean rollouts and deployments of new products
- Build and maintain backend APIs to facilitate scalable flow of baseball data
- Integrate with a variety of third-party APIs to enrich the New York Mets data ecosystem
- Work with data engineers to facilitate the easy collection and access of valuable baseball data
- Maintain and scale a broad collection of internal applications that enhance player development, scouting, and executive decision making
