--- title: 'Product Designer at Novig' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/product-designer-novig-new-york-nk03ynapb87f' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-28' --- # Product Designer at Novig - **Company:** Novig - **Location:** New York, NY - **Compensation:** $150k–$180k - **Employment:** full-time - **Posted:** 2026-10-27 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/novig/fa3a2236-20c0-435d-861e-dba60fa6d1c9 ## Job description Product Designer $150k – $180k • meaningful equity ## About Novig Novig is building America's #1 sports prediction market. Our mission is to financialize and democratize sports trading - taking a closed system run by casinos and turning it into a fair, efficient, two-sided market where the power sits with users. With Novig recently becoming a CFTC-designated market — the fastest designation of its kind in US history— we're bringing the prediction market built for sports fans nationwide. We're backed by some of Silicon Valley's top investors — Pantera, Forerunner, Lux, NFX, Paul Graham, and Joe Montana — who have collectively invested over $100M behind this vision. ## About the Role We’re hiring a Product Designer at Novig to help craft the core experience of the best sports prediction market in the world. This is a high-ownership role with real scope, autonomy, and influence over the direction of the product. You'll work directly with the VP of Design, founder, and core product team, shaping the product end-to-end — from understanding users, concepting new product features, and helping frame product direction to shipping precise, polished interfaces. Who you are and what you will do - You build what users love. You design experiences that feel intuitive, rewarding, and differentiated, deepening how fans engage with sports trading. - You make complexity feel simple. You turn sports markets, live data, and trading mechanics into clear, fast, and engaging product experiences. - You validate ideas fast. You rapidly concept, prototype, test, and iterate to produce the highest-impact solutions, pushing for the highest quality execution, thoughtful interaction design, and strong product thinking across every surface and flow. - You help evolve our system. You define, grow, and maintain our design system to keep our product cohesive as it grows. - You have 3–4+ years of product design experience, with a portfolio that shows system-level thinking, strong attention to detail, and tangible business impact — backed by excellent visual and interaction design skills and deep Figma fluency. - You have a sharp instinct for user behavior and what makes products click, with strong product judgment grounded in real customer understanding. - You have a strong point of view on design systems — you think in components, tokens, and variants. - You're AI-forward, with a strong interest in actively integrating AI into design workflows. - You move quickly and adapt well in fast-paced environments, with a bias toward ownership and action, clear and thoughtful communication, and genuine curiosity about markets. - Bonus: you have experience in fintech, sports betting, trading, or other data-rich consumer products. Why work here, in the words of the people who do “I work with extremely stellar people, I own real systems, and decisions happen fast. No politics, no waiting for needless red tape. If something's broken, I fix it. If I build something good, it ships.” “The people! They're smart, thoughtful, fun to work with and passionate about their craft.” “I'm having the most fun I've had in my entire career.” If you want responsibility, trust, and the chance to help build the future of sports prediction markets - take your shot, we’d love to connect. Not for everyone - Our work is tied to live sports - that means potential nights, weekends, and pressure included. - If you need clear swim lanes, a heavy process, or someone to tell you what to do, this won’t be the right environment. ## Compensation & benefits - $150k – $180k base, benchmarked at top-tier tech companies - Meaningful equity for every employee, regardless of role - 100% health premiums covered - 99% dental & vision covered - 401(k) with 4% company match - HSA + $1,080 annual company contribution - $50/monthly company contribution to employee transit - $27/day lunch stipend when working from our NYC office - $35/day dinner stipend when working from the NYC office after 6:30pm Homebase Union Square, NYC ## About Novig ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Novig is a commission-free, peer-to-peer sports prediction market that allows users to trade on sports outcomes against each other rather than against the house. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; Y Combinator Summer 2022) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Jacob Fortinsky (CEO) and Kelechi Ukah (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Sports prediction markets / sports trading (disrupting traditional sportsbooks) - **Target customers**: B2C – sports fans and retail traders looking for fair, transparent betting alternatives - **Mission**: “Create a faster, fairer future for traders and fans — free from hidden fees, house edges, and account limits.” ## Products & Services - **[Novig Platform]**: A mobile and web app that enables peer-to-peer sports trading with zero commission. Users set their own odds, trade in real-time, and benefit from full market transparency. Available in 35+ U.S. states. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Over $105 million raised in total funding (including a $18M Series A announced in 2026) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Pantera Capital, Forerunner Ventures, Lux Capital, NFX, Y Combinator, Paul Graham, Joe Montana - **Growth Signals**: - Fastest growing sports prediction market in the U.S. - Received CFTC approval to operate as a regulated exchange - Team grew to 55 employees (~23 in product & engineering) - Available in 35+ states nationwide ## Competitive Advantages - **Commission-free model**: No house edge or hidden fees; users trade directly with each other. - **Peer-to-peer exchange**: Better pricing and transparency than traditional sportsbooks. - **Regulatory edge**: CFTC-regulated, providing legitimacy and trust in a grey-market industry. - **Backed by top-tier investors**: Deep war chest and network from Silicon Valley’s best. ## Strategic Focus - Continue expanding into new states and product features. - Drive user adoption by marketing the fairness and efficiency of prediction markets vs. sportsbooks. - Build out engineering and operations teams to scale the platform and maintain reliability during high-traffic events. ## Why Work Here - **High-growth, well-funded startup**: Over $105M raised with massive market opportunity in the expanding sports betting sector. - **Impact & ownership**: Engineers and product teams directly shape a platform used by millions. - **Engineering culture**: Modern tech stack (Rust, TypeScript, React Native, Node.js, Python, AWS, Kafka, GraphQL, Redis, PostgreSQL, Terraform, Docker). - **Work model**: Hybrid in-office (NYC headquarters) with 4 days/week in-office expected; remote options available for select roles. - **Benefits**: Competitive salary ($170K–$225K for L4 Backend Engineer), equity, comprehensive health coverage. - **Values-driven**: “Challenge the House”, “Truth Over Ego”, “Move Fast, Think Long”, “Fans First, Always”. - **Passionate team**: Sports fans building for sports fans. ## Sources 1. [Y Combinator – Novig](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/novig) 2. [Novig Careers](https://novig.com/careers) 3. [Built In – Novig](http://www.builtin.com/company/novig) 4. 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