Director, Product Design

Fox Corporation•New York, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a Director of Product Design to lead user experience design across FOX News Media. You'll build and lead our design team while establishing design excellence, consistency, and innovation across web, mobile, and emerging platforms. You'll be responsible for evolving our design practice to leverage AI tools for design productivity and exploring AI-powered user experiences. Success means shipping products that users love while building a high-performing design team and establishing FOX News Media as a leader in digital news experience design. This role requires someone who can operate strategically (setting design vision and standards) while remaining hands-on when needed (design reviews, critiques, key projects). You'll partner closely with product leadership to ensure user experience drives product decisions, with engineering teams to ensure design feasibility and quality implementation, and with editorial and business stakeholders to balance user needs with business goals.

Requirements

Typically 10+ years in UX/product design with 3-5 years in design leadership roles managing design teams
Proven track record building and leading design teams (3+ designers) with demonstrated impact on product and business outcomes
Strong portfolio showing strategic UX work for web and mobile products at scale
Active user of AI design tools or interest in how AI transforms design practice
Proven ability to establish design standards, systems, and quality bar across multiple products
Experience partnering with product and engineering leadership as peer-level partner
Experience in digital media, publishing, news, content platforms, or consumer products with complex information architectures
Deep expertise across UX disciplines: user research, interaction design, information architecture, visual design, prototyping
Exceptional stakeholder management: can influence product strategy and navigate organizational complexity
Understanding of accessibility, performance, and technical constraints in design
Experience designing for multiple platforms: responsive web, iOS, Android, emerging platforms
Excellent communication and presentation skills: can articulate design rationale to executives and diverse audiences
Regular, on-site attendance at the workplace a minimum of 3 days per week is an essential function of the position. Selected candidate must be able to reliably meet this requirement.
Expert in modern design tools: Figma (required), prototyping tools, design systems tools
Strong interaction design and information architecture skills for complex, content-heavy experiences
Understanding of responsive design, mobile-first design, and cross-platform UX
Ability to critique design work constructively and raise quality bar across team
Knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design practices
Understanding of web and mobile technologies well enough to discuss feasibility with engineering
Familiarity with design QA and ensuring design implementation quality

Nice To Haves

Experience at news organizations or real-time, content-heavy digital products
Background building design teams from scratch or transforming design organizations
Experience with design systems at scale (building, maintaining, evangelizing)
Understanding of news editorial workflows and how design serves journalism

Responsibilities

Design Leadership & Vision Set design vision and strategy for FOX News Media digital products across all properties
Drive adoption of AI tools within design team for productivity (AI-assisted design, prototyping, asset generation)
Establish and maintain design standards, patterns, and quality bar across web, mobile, and emerging platforms
Champion user-centered design approach in product and business discussions
Define what great user experience means for news, ensuring designs serve both editorial goals and user needs
Ensure responsible, user-centered approach to AI features in product design
Make key design decisions that affect multiple products or properties
Represent design perspective in senior leadership discussions and product planning
Team Building & Management Lead UX design team supporting all FOX News Media digital properties
Help the design team develop AI literacy and AI-native design workflowsStay current on UX trends, emerging platforms, and design innovation in digital media
Manage designers across disciplines: UX design, UI design, interaction design, technical design
Foster collaborative, high-performing design culture focused on user impact and craft excellence
Manage design team capacity and allocate resources across competing priorities and business units
Establish design team rituals: design reviews, critiques, portfolio reviews, knowledge sharing
Product Partnership & Collaboration Partner with product and technical peers throughout product development lifecycle
Ensure design is involved early in product strategy and roadmap planning, not just execution
Collaborate on product vision, user needs definition, and strategic direction
Participate in product planning discussions providing design perspective on feasibility and user impact
Balance product priorities across multiple business units and stakeholder demands
Advocate for user needs and design quality when business or technical pressures create tension
Design Process & Operations Establish design process that balances speed with quality in fast-paced news environment
Create efficient workflows for design collaboration with product and engineering teams
Build and maintain design systems that enable consistency and efficiency across properties
Ensure design deliverables (wireframes, mockups, prototypes, specs) meet engineering needs
Manage design tools and resources (Figma, prototyping tools, research tools, AI design tools)
Establish design operations practices: file organization, version control, documentation standards
Measure and improve design team productivity and impact
User Research & Validation Partner on user research efforts to inform product and design decisions
Ensure design decisions are validated through research, testing, and data
Use data and analytics to measure design impact and identify UX improvement opportunities
Create frameworks for rapid user validation in fast-moving news environment
Stakeholder Management Present design work and rationale to senior leadership
Navigate competing stakeholder priorities and design feedback diplomatically
Educate stakeholders on UX principles and design process
Manage design expectations and timelines realistically
Advocate for user needs when stakeholder requests conflict with good UX