Senior Product Designer, Messaging Platforms
About The Position
The New York Times is looking for a Senior Product Designer to lead projects focused on internal platforms and tooling, shaping the UX and workflows to scale our most essential business capabilities. Our Platforms teams build the underlying technologies that power our products and business at scale. You will lead design initiatives across Messaging Platforms focused on building our email and push notification tools to support our Editorial and Marketing teams in reaching the right readers at scale. You'll use your interaction design skills to further build a new MessageHub flagship tool, while using research and service design to understand the systems, processes and workflows of different teams and translate them into intuitive, scalable solutions. This is an individual contributor role. At The Times, Senior Product Designers are not only focused on working with cross-functional teams, but learning about our products and continuing to sharpen their design skills from more experienced designers on the team. The Senior Product Designer will have completed the design of a complex feature that has led to hitting team and our goals and seen them through a release cycle. They are an emerging leader with deepening expertise. This is a hybrid role based in our New York City office.
Requirements
- A portfolio of work that showcases your design process along with finished design work.
- 5+ years of experience designing digital web or app products.
- 3+ years experience designing interactive products or tools.
- 1 or more years of service design experience or working on platforms.
- Proficient in design tools such as Figma.
- Proficient in prototyping tools such as (Play, Cursor, Gemini Canvas, Retool, Figma).
- Experience facilitating alignment through workshopping, brainstorms, and collaboration.
Nice To Haves
- Experience or enthusiasm for designing services, workflows or tooling for internal users.
- Experience navigating and translating complex technical systems.
- Experience conducting lightweight user research.
- Experience designing or conceptualizing large solutions while also aligning user and and business goals.
- Strong ability to show design decisions and impact.
- Experience working with stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate on 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 alignment, 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.
- Nurture our design team, with an eye towards inspiring and mentoring your teammates and enhancing processes and documentation
- 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
