Senior Product Designer, Messaging Platforms

The New York Times is seeking a Senior Product Designer to lead projects focused on internal platforms and tooling, shaping the UX and workflows to scale essential business capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on 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 alignment, 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
• Nurture our design team, with an eye towards inspiring and mentoring your teammates and enhancing processes and documentation
• 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 design process along with finished design work
• 5+ years of experience designing digital web or app products
• 3+ years experience designing interactive products or tools
• 1 or more years of service design experience or working on platforms
• Proficient in design tools such as Figma
• Proficient in prototyping tools such as (Play, Cursor, Gemini Canvas, Retool, Figma)

Key Skills

• Design tools such as Figma
• Prototyping tools such as (Play, Cursor, Gemini Canvas, Retool, Figma)