Senior Product Designer, Growth

Mission Overview & Responsibilities

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. This mission drives our digital subscription business strategy, which aims to secure The New York Times's position as the most successful journalistic institution in the world.

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 the design quality and consistency of shipped flows and interactions.
• Create necessary documentation (e.g., user journeys, wireframes, frameworks) to lead conversations, build consensus, and help make decisions.
• Contribute to team rituals, nurture the design team, and mentor junior designers to strengthen the design function.
• 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 process along with finished design work.
• 5+ years of experience designing digital web or app products.
• 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 LLM tooling such as (Claude, Cursor, Gemini Canvas, FigmaMake).
• Experience facilitating alignment through workshopping, brainstorms and cross-functional collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience designing and conceptualizing large solutions that drive operational efficiency and align with user and business objectives.
• Formal experience presenting design decisions and impact.
• Experience writing copy for user interfaces that guides users and creating assets that follow established strategies to enhance that messaging.
• Deepened experience designing for multi-variant testing.

Benefits

• Annual base pay range: $120,000 - $144,000 USD
• Variable pay: annual bonus and restricted stock
• Benefits: medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs

Equal Opportunity Employer

The New York Times Company is committed to being the world’s best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. 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.

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We are 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.