Senior Product Designer, Ad Mission
The New York Times 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will design and deliver compelling ad experiences across various products while optimizing current experiences for users and advertisers. They will collaborate on product strategy and ensure design quality and consistency.
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 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 process along with finished design work
- 5+ years of experience designing digital web or app products —with experience working through user journeys
- Must demonstrate experience and strong proficiency of visual design principles, typography, visual hierarchy, and design systems
- Proficient in design tools such as Figma
- Proficient in prototyping tools such as Play, Cursor, Gemini, Figma
- Experience facilitating alignment through workshopping, brainstorms and cross functional collaboration
Key Skills
- Visual design principles
- Typography
- Visual hierarchy
- Design systems
- Figma
- Prototyping tools
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Workshopping
- Brainstorms
- Product strategy
- Design quality
- Consistency
- Documentation
- Product ideas
- Solutions
- Requirements
- Team and product design rituals
- Mentoring
- Process and documentation
- User research
- Synthesis
- User experience
- User interface
- Interaction design
- Information architecture
- Wireframing
- Prototyping
- Usability testing
- A/B testing
- Multivariate testing
- Leadership
- Communication
- Storytelling
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
- Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
- A company-matching 401(k) plan
- Paid vacation
- Paid sick days
- Paid parental leave
- Tuition reimbursement and professional development programs
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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