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Product Designer, Platforms
The New York Times • New York, United States of America 🇺🇸
The Product Designer will support high-level product strategy and work with engineers and product teams to ensure design quality and consistency. They will create documentation to lead conversations and help make decisions while contributing to team and product design rituals.
Responsibilities
- Support high-level product strategy, ensuring we're asking the right questions and solving for distinct needs.
- Work with engineers and product teams to ensure design quality and consistency of shipped flows and interactions.
- Create documentation (e.g. user journeys, experience maps, wireframes, frameworks) to lead conversations, build consensus, and help make decisions.
- Take product ideas and hone them into multiple solutions and concrete approaches, then collaboratively narrow ideas and establish requirements.
- Contribute to team and product design rituals.
- Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
Requirements
- A portfolio of work that showcases your process along with finished design work
- 3+ years of experience designing digital web or app products, with recent experience designing interactive products or tools
- An understanding of technologies used to build modern digital experiences
- Proficient in design tools such as Figma
- Proficient in prototyping tools such as (Play, Cursor, Gemini Canvas, Retool, Figma)
- Experience with user research and synthesis
Key Skills
- Portfolio of work showcasing process and finished design work
- Experience designing digital web or app products
- Understanding of modern digital technologies
- Figma proficiency
- Prototyping tools proficiency
- User research and synthesis experience
- Visual design principles
- Type hierarchies and layout
- Systems experience
- User research and conducting user research
- Designing services, processes, or tooling
- Design decisions and impact
- Experience working with stakeholders
About The New York Times
The New York Times is powered by the idea that independent, deeply reported journalism fuels a healthy and engaged society. Our reporters, columnists, editors, engineers, designers, data analysts, developers and marketers breathe life into the most important topics of our time and tell stories that might otherwise go untold. Whether bringing new truths to light with our reporting, building innovative products that deliver a best-in-class digital experience, or analyzing data to understand how we can best serve our readers, our people power the world’s top destination for journalism. Working at The Times means envisioning and developing the future of journalism. Bring your passion, perspective and experience and join us as we seek the truth and help people understand the world. Check out our career opportunities (nytco.com/careers) and follow our page to connect with Times employees, journalists and readers.
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