Product Design & Experience Leader

Hello, I’m Kyle Green.

I’m a product design leader with 15+ years of experience building teams and products for sports fans and consumers across sports media, streaming, and gaming. I partner with product and engineering leaders to turn business strategy into product vision while building high-performing design teams, scaling design systems, and creating experiences customers love.

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Experience

From LEGO kiosks to live sports, every stop taught me something I still use.

2001 – 2003 Burlington Tech Center Design & Illustration
2003 – 2007 University of Hartford Major in visual communication design, Minor in Illustration
2007 – 2009 reality interactive Lead Designer · Retail kiosks for LEGO, Bose, BMW
2009 – 2013 Triple Frog Sr. Designer · Web & digital products, agency
2013 – 2021 ESPN / Disney Designer → Sr. Manager, Product Design
2021 – Present BetMGM Head of Product Design, Sports & Casino

Selected work

A small preview of what I’ve led

Highlights, not case studies. Happy to walk through any of these in depth.

BetMGM

Product vision

Defined a multi-year vision that brought Sports, Casino, and Player Experience together around one premium experience — and presented it to executive leadership and the Board.

ESPN

ESPN App & home feed

Principal UI designer for the 2018 ESPN App redesign and the launch of ESPN+. Architected the modular card framework that later informed Disney’s cross-brand component system.

ESPN

Live sports & Gamecast

Defined the framework for live Gamecast experiences across major sports — reusable interaction patterns, animated playing surfaces, and real-time data visualization. Conceptualized UFC Fightcast.

BetMGM’s Chalk design system documentation and Disney’s Prism framework

BetMGM + ESPN / Disney

Craft & systems at scale

Built BetMGM’s multi-platform design system from the ground up, and led the evolution of ESPN’s Digital Design System. Systems as a way to scale craft, not just a component library.

Philosophy

How I lead

The principles I bring to building teams, products, and design culture.

Build & empower great teams

I’ve built and scaled design teams while creating an environment where designers have ownership, clear expectations, and opportunities to grow.

Stay close to the craft

Leadership shouldn’t mean stepping away from the work. I stay close to design, prototype alongside teams, and use craft to explore ideas, raise quality, and push the product forward.

Set vision, then make it real

I connect customer needs and business goals to a clear product vision that aligns teams, motivates organizations, and creates a path from strategy to execution.

Build systems that scale

I look for the systems behind the work — from design systems and shared patterns to processes and ways of working that help teams move faster without sacrificing quality.

I create a culture people want to be part of. Great teams are built through trust, creativity, recognition, and opportunities for people to bring more of themselves to work.

Off the clock

Oh — I also love to draw.

I’ve been making things since I was little, which led me to a BFA from Hartford Art School in Visual Communication Design with a minor in Illustration.

I still draw most days and keep a sketchbook close. When I’m not using it for notes and ideas, I’m filling it with strange little creatures I call “things”. In addition, I find myself utilizing AI to create my own apps and I’m aspiring to publish a children’s book.

A drawing of a wide-eyed creature with a mossy shell and dripping tentacles that sway — one of the “things”

Illustrations

The Chicken Strikes Back
Eek, you guys made me Ink!
Flowers, Not Flames

Contact

Let’s build something fun.

Happy to talk design, teams, systems, or what you’re building next.

creationthing@gmail.com