Senior Product Designer, Messaging Platforms

The New York Times is looking for a Senior Product Designer to lead projects focused on internal platforms and tooling, shaping the UX and workflows to scale our most essential business capabilities. This is a hybrid role based in our New York City office.

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

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.

Key Skills

• Interaction design skills
• Research and service design
• Design tools such as Figma
• Prototyping tools such as (Play, Cursor, Gemini Canvas, Retool, Figma)

Benefits

• The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)’s Know Your Rights Poster is available.
• The Company encourages those with criminal histories to apply, and will consider their applications in a manner consistent with applicable "Fair Chance" laws.