Product Designer, Growth, Subscriber Revenue

Product Designer

The New York Times is looking for Product Designers to join the Growth mission to create first-in-class app experiences that drive our digital subscription business forward.

The Growth mission at The New York Times is accelerating our digital subscription business to secure The New York Times's position as the most successful journalistic institution in the world. Product designers within Growth accomplish this by designing experiences that identify our most qualified audiences, engage them, and convert them into new subscribers and retain them.

Your priority is subscription growth. You'll use your visual design skills to communicate the breadth of the Times subscription and its value. You'll contribute to and help evolve Growth design patterns across our products across web and app surfaces while improving our subscription management experience. This role is great if you enjoy identifying hypotheses for your work, creating solutions that balance user and business needs, and seeing the direct impact of your work.

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. You will have successfully executed the design of features that have led to hitting team and company goals and seen them through a release cycle. You 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.

Basic Qualifications:

• A portfolio of work that showcases your design process along with finished design work.
• 3+ years of experience designing digital products-both websites and apps-with recent experience working in user journey or growth problem spaces.
• 1+ years of designing features dealing with multiple pricing tiers and feature sets, accommodating several permutations.
• 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.
• Strong ability to show design decisions and impact.
• Experience working with stakeholders.
• Experience designing for A/B or multivariate testing.
• Experience writing copy for user interfaces that guides users and creating assets that follow established strategies to enhance that messaging.

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.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.

The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws. Individuals seeking an accommodation for the application or interview process should email reasonable.accommodations@nytimes.com. Emails sent for unrelated issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

The Company will further consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable "Fair Chance" laws.

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