Associate Product Designer, Programmed Surfaces

Associate Product Designer, Programmed Surfaces

The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It's why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It's why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it's why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it's worth paying for.

Mission Overview & Responsibilities:

This is an individual contributor role. At The Times, Associate Product Designers are focused on not only honing their design skills, but learning about our products and design methodologies from the more experienced designers on the team. Our intention is to begin to develop your skills as a designer and provide you with mentorship to help grow you in your career.

This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters.

Responsibilities:

• Collect and incorporate feedback from fellow team members.
• Become familiar with the current state of a system or user experience.
• Establish familiarity with product design and the release cycle by supporting work and contributing components that lead to hitting team and our goals.
• Work with engineers and product teams to ensure design quality and consistency of shipped flows and interactions.
• Contribute to team and product design rituals.
• Practice transparency around keeping your team and mentors updated on your status.
• 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.
• You will report to the Product Design Director.

Basic Qualifications:

• A portfolio of work that showcases your design process along with finished design work.
• 1+ years of experience designing digital web or app products, with recent experience designing interactive products or tools.
• Proficient in using digital design tools such as Figma.
• Experience adapting to changing priorities and incorporating feedback from colleagues to refine work.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience with visual design principles, type hierarchies and layout, and systems.
• Proficient in prototyping tools (Figma, Play, Cursor).
• Experience showing design decisions and impact.
• Experience with user research and synthesis.

The New York Times Company is committed to being the world's best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. To do so, we embrace a diverse workforce that has a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.