Senior Product Designer, Wirecutter

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for. 

Mission Overview & Responsibilities:

New York Times Wirecutter is looking for a Senior Product Designer to lead the design of new and existing editorial tools to produce our recommendations.

We aim for the quality of our publishing tools to match the expertise and empower the goals of New York Times Wirecutter editors and our production organization. We are building a new content management system (CMS) that will be the foundation of all of our recommendation content for years to come. As the primary designer for this suite of tools, you’ll improve workflows, unlock new formats and capabilities, and help editors publish trusted reviews and recommendations.

Your Role:

As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll work as an individual contributor with Product, Engineering, and Editorial partners to work towards the vision of Wirecutter’s new CMS which will be integrated into the New York Times platform, Scoop. You'll learn the review lifecycle, master editorial and production workflows, work with requirements to create designs, test low-fidelity flows with editors and producers, and collaborate with engineering partners to ship a quality MVP.

If you enjoy iterating toward a larger vision, rendering complex interactions simply, quickly validating ideas, and thoughtfully applying and extending design systems, this is the role for you.

You will report to Wirecutter’s Product Design Director. We are open to remote candidates.

Responsibilities

• You will collaborate on high-level product strategy, identifying distinct needs and guiding the right questions. 
• You will create documentation (e.g. user journeys, experience maps, wireframes, frameworks) to guide discussions and facilitate the decision process.
• You will collaborate with engineers and product teams to develop and refine requirements for multiple product ideas.
• You will conduct informal testing with editors, incorporate insights into designs, and produce production-ready deliverables using design patterns while ensuring design quality throughout the development process.
• You will participate in team and product design rituals, nurturing the design team by inspiring and mentoring teammates and enhancing our processes and documentation.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience designing digital products—especially on the web—with product and engineering collaborators.
• 1+ years of recent experience leading complex design efforts related to publishing/internal tools or tools with heavy user-facing controls.
• A portfolio of work that showcases your design process along with finished design work.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated expertise in solving for complex states, iterating on designs based on usage patterns and user feedback, and adapting to the evolving competitive landscape.
• Experience making on-brand visual choices that enhance informational clarity, guide user behavior, and follow brand, platform, and interaction conventions.
• Experience facilitating workshops and brainstorms with cross-functional collaborators.
• Advanced proficiency in Figma (including its prototyping functionality) or comparable tools.
• Demonstrated understanding of modern HTML & CSS and a grasp of current development philosophies/methodologies for building consumer products.

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:$116,000—$140,000 USD

The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

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