Staff Product Designer, NAPP

The New York Times•New York, NY

30d•$160,000 - $190,000•Remote

About The Position

The New York Times is seeking a Staff Product Designer with strong UX, product, and editorial experience to join the New A.I. Products and Platforms (NAPP) mission. This critical, company-wide initiative is tasked with building the next generation of AI-powered products to accelerate The New York Times's essential subscription strategy. As a Staff Product Designer, you will use editorial and design judgment to imagine and prototype AI-powered editorial experiences, upholding the highest levels of journalistic and product excellence. You will collaborate with teams to uncover opportunities to deliver better experiences to our readers using AI across our bundle of connected products. You will create and validate prototypes that meet users' informational needs and align with our brand aesthetic and values. You will create clarity by building and showing product and newsroom partners what's possible with AI. The role values an environment of learning and collaboration, where you will play a leadership role to grow and support more junior team members and champion a "make to think" culture and emerging best practices around AI-enabled workflows. This role combines elements of product design, product strategy, editorial sense, and engineering, and is well-suited for someone comfortable navigating ambiguity, bringing curiosity and initiative, and enjoying collaboration with subject matter experts across The Times. This is a remote-friendly position.

Requirements

7+ years of experience as a product manager or product designer, with recent experience creating coded prototypes using AI-enabled tools and workflows.
7+ years of experience collaborating with editorial or product teams to deliver experiences that users love and return to.
Case studies / portfolio of shipped work demonstrating experience working in 0-to-1 environments where requirements change often.
Experience designing user experiences that use AI/LLM.
Experience refining AI's tone, format, and behavior to align with brand guidelines and product quality benchmarks.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with product teams across The Times to identify smart opportunities to integrate A.I. into their products and features.
Imagine concepts for delivering new A.I.-powered experiences for NYT users.
Use quantitative data and qualitative research to inform design decisions.
Create clear prototypes of these concepts to validate desirability, feasibility, and usability.
Use prototypes to lead conversations and set direction with NAPP's leadership team and, in turn, influence our broader A.I. strategy.
Represent your work to leadership within the company.
Work with engineering teams in an Agile development environment.
Champion A.I. innovation and ethics: Stay up to date with industry trends, LLM advancements, and emerging technologies. Champion the ethical and responsible use of AI, ensuring our tools uphold our standards of accuracy and objectivity.
Own evaluation for quality and editorial integrity: Create frameworks to assess the success of A.I. prototypes and products.
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.