Product Designer, Programmed Surfaces

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: 

The Subscriber Experiences teams at The New York Times are focused on guiding subscribers to discover and adopt all that The Times has to offer—from the centrality of our news report to our full product bundle—by building meaningful pathways and experiences that create exploration, habituation, and engagement. 

We're looking for a Product Designer to join our Programmed Surfaces team to create impactful and engaging experiences across main reader-facing surfaces, including the homepage, collection fronts, and newsletters. You'll expand existing editorial design systems to develop features and layouts that showcase our offerings across web, app, and inbox experiences. You'll address the immediate needs of news moments while designing with a broader vision for the product.

This is an individual contributor role reporting to the Product Design Director of the Programmed Surfaces team. This is a hybrid position based in our Times Square headquarters.

As a Product Designer at The Times, you are a trusted contributor, collaborating with teams, learning about our products, and honing your design skills. You'll partner with product designers, product teams, user researchers and newsroom team members on projects to help the New York Times reach our product goals.

Responsibilities:

• Support high-level product and editorial strategy, ensuring we’re asking the right questions and solving for distinct needs. 
• Collaborate with engineers and product teams to ensure design quality and consistency of shipped features and layouts.
• Create documentation to guide discussions, present design strategies, establish decisions, and support the decision-making process.
• Refine product ideas into multiple solutions, then collaborate to narrow options and define requirements.
• Contribute to team and product design rituals.
• 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: 

• 3+ years of experience designing digital web or app products, with recent experience designing interactive products or tools.
• A portfolio of work that showcases your design process along with finished design work. 
• Proficient using digital design tools such as Figma, Sketch or Adobe XD.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• A portfolio showcasing visual design skills and designs for editorial-driven products.
• Demonstrated proficiency in working within complex design systems and brand guidelines. 
• Experience facilitating brainstorms and communicating design decisions for feedback and discussion.
• Experience working collaboratively on evolving projects.
• Experience designing for native products.

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:$96,000—$125,000 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.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for em