Senior Product Designer, Design Foundations
The New York Times 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves co-owning the platform-focused design systems roadmap, contributing to and maintaining Figma libraries and engineering documentation, and auditing existing experiences to find opportunities for consolidation and systemization. Responsibilities also include championing system-first design practices, providing guidance to other designers, and producing production-ready design deliverables.
Responsibilities
- Co-own the platform-focused design systems roadmap with the Games Web & App Platform PM and engineering leads
- Contribute to and maintain Figma libraries and engineering documentation that map cleanly to our implemented component libraries
- Audit existing web and app experiences and component libraries to identify opportunities for consolidation, improvement, and systemization
- Define and monitor design system health and adoption, identifying areas where teams may need guidance or additional support
- Champion responsive, system-first design practices across the Games mission
- Provide guidance to designers using the system, including critiques, pairing, and improving documentation so the system remains clear and useful across different games and surfaces
- Develop information architecture for complex user journeys and create functional prototypes of proposed UX solutions
- Anticipate and solve for different entry points, exit points, system states, and user states in proposed interactions
- Be the standard-bearer for design quality across Games surfaces and system contributions
Requirements
- 4+ years of relevant experience working within cross-functional teams
- 2+ years experience working directly on design systems or platform/foundations work (components, tokens, patterns, or similar)
- A portfolio of work that showcases your thought process along with finished design work
- Experience collaborating with engineers to implement design systems or component libraries
- Demonstrated experience building, maintaining, and applying design systems in collaboration with engineering
- Fluent in UX design best practices and usability principles that responsively scale across mobile and web platforms
- Working knowledge of accessibility and inclusive design, especially as it applies to systems work (typography scales, contrast, motion, and semantics)
Benefits
- Annual base pay range between $120,000—$145,000 USD
- Variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock
- 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
- Professional development programs
Key Skills
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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