Product Designer, Platforms

Product Designer, Platforms

The mission of 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.

The New York Times is looking for a Product Designer to help create forward-thinking infrastructure that powers our business goals. Platform teams build underlying technologies that power our products and business at scale you will support two teams that are crucial for maintaining and strengthening our subscription model through designing tools and capabilities for internal users and customers.

This is an individual contributor role. At The Times, Product Designers are not only focused on working with cross-functional teams, but learning about our products and sharpening their design skills from more experienced designers on the team. The Product Designer will have executed the design of features that have led to hitting team and company goals and seen them through a release cycle. They are a trusted team contributor.

This role is based in our New York City office.

Responsibilities:

• Support 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 consensus, 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.
• 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 in Platform Design.

Basic Qualifications:

• A portfolio of work that showcases your process along with finished design work
• 3+ years of experience designing digital web or app products, with recent experience designing interactive products or tools
• An understanding of technologies used to build modern digital experiences
• Proficient in design tools such as Figma
• Proficient in prototyping tools such as (Play, Cursor, Gemini Canvas, Retool, Figma)
• Experience with user research and synthesis

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience with visual design principles, type hierarchies and layout, and systems
• Experience designing and conducting user research
• Experience or enthusiasm for designing services, processes, or tooling
• Show design decisions and impact
• Experience working with stakeholders

The annual base pay range for this role is between: $104,000 - $125,000 USD