Principal Product Designer
About the role
A principal product designer for Yahoo Home will set the visual and interaction language for one of the most-visited destinations on the web. This role involves setting the design language, interaction patterns, and component system for Home on mobile and desktop. The designer will partner with product, engineering, and the Community team to design the feed, navigation, reading experience, and participation surfaces.
Responsibilities
- Own the Yahoo Home experience design.
- Define the cross-platform design language, interaction patterns, and component system for Home on mobile and desktop.
- Hold the bar for craft on every pixel that ships.
- Design the bridge to community.
- Partner closely with the Community team to weave comments, reactions, perspectives, and ranked voices into the Home reading experience.
- Design the moments where a reader becomes a participant.
- Balance feed and story.
- Hold the tension between habit-forming surfaces (the feed, the rail, the personalization layer) and action-oriented destinations (article reading, community participation, contextual depth).
- Know when to show more and when to get out of the way.
- Prototype, don't just spec.
- Use AI-native tools like Figma Make, Claude, or Cursor to compress the time from idea to interactive artifact.
- Bring working prototypes to design reviews, not static frames.
- Build Personalization that’s Habit-forming.
- Develop an engaging experience by leveraging AI-driven interest detection and natural language inputs to make surfaces feel personalized, and design the UI patterns that build user trust and transparency around algorithmic recommendations.
- Set the design culture.
- Raise the quality bar across the broader Home and Community design surface area by establishing scalable design frameworks, running critiques, and mentoring other designers (IC3/IC4).
- Lead through your craft.
- Sweat the cross-platform details.
- Design fluently for iOS, Android, and web.
- Know when to converge and when to diverge across platforms.
- Hold the line on consistency without flattening platform identity.
- Ship fast on high-stakes surfaces.
- Navigate existing business constraints (SEO, ad units, legacy components) while introducing genuinely new patterns.
- Thread the needle between stability and startup-speed iteration.
Requirements
Experience: 10+ years in product design, with significant time on consumer products at scale. Proven AI Builder: You have a track record of building side projects and functional prototypes using AI agents. Deep Product Sense & Taste: You have strong opinions on why products like Superhuman or Threads succeed or fail. Cross-platform fluency: You design natively for mobile and desktop, not as an afterthought. Comfortable with massive ambiguity: You thrive in the early stages of a 0→1 build where the path isn't yet paved.
Qualifications
Experience: 10+ years in product design, with significant time on consumer products at scale. Proven AI Builder: You have a track record of building side projects and functional prototypes using AI agents. Deep Product Sense & Taste: You have strong opinions on why products like Superhuman or Threads succeed or fail. Cross-platform fluency: You design natively for mobile and desktop, not as an afterthought. Comfortable with massive ambiguity: You thrive in the early stages of a 0→1 build where the path isn't yet paved.
Skills
Experience: 10+ years in product design, with significant time on consumer products at scale. Proven AI Builder: You have a track record of building side projects and functional prototypes using AI agents. Deep Product Sense & Taste: You have strong opinions on why products like Superhuman or Threads succeed or fail. Cross-platform fluency: You design natively for mobile and desktop, not as an afterthought. Comfortable with massive ambiguity: You thrive in the early stages of a 0→1 build where the path isn't yet paved.
Benefits
Flexible hybrid work options. Comprehensive benefits including healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.
Pay
$143,625.00 - $299,375.00/yr
Schedule
Not specified