Senior Product Designer, Publishing Group

Thenewyorktimes; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental and vision benefits

401(k) plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid vacation

Paid sick days

Paid parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Professional development programs

Job summary

The New York Times is seeking a Senior Designer to lead design for media production systems within our Publishing group. You will shape complex features for images, videos, and audio, collaborating with editors, developers, and product teams on a centralized CMS workflow.

You will mentor teammates, drive design quality, and contribute to the roadmap while upholding our mission of independent journalism. This hybrid role is based in New York City.

Qualifications

• A portfolio of work showcasing your design process along with finished design work.
• 5+ years of experience designing digital web or app products.
• 3+ years designing interactive products or tools.
• 1+ years of system design experience or working on platforms.
• Recent experience creating coded prototypes that use real datasets.
• Proficient in building prototypes with agentic coding tools such as Claude, Cursor, Gemini Canvas, Retool, Figma.
• Proficient in design tools such as Figma.
• Experience with AI-assisted generative design.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in an Agile development environment.
• Experience facilitating alignment through workshopping, brainstorms and cross functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on high-level product strategy, ensuring we're asking the right questions and solving for distinct needs.
• Navigate complex stakeholder needs across News and sub-brand editorial teams, internal system teams, and our business.
• Work with engineers and product teams to ensure design quality and consistency of shipped flows and interactions.
• Create clear, realistic, data-driven prototypes at high fidelity that leverage live APIs to inform Design and Engineering decisions.
• Create documentation (e.g. user journeys, experience maps, wireframes, frameworks) to lead conversations, build alignment, and help make decisions.
• Take product ideas and hone them into multiple solutions and concrete approaches, then collaboratively narrow ideas and establish requirements.
• Contribute to team and product design rituals.
• Nurture our design team, with an eye towards inspiring and mentoring your teammates and enhancing processes and learning.
• 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.
• You will report to the Executive Director of Product Design, Publishing.

Skills

Product design

System design

Prototyping

Cross-functional

Agile

AI-assisted design

Data-driven

Tools

Claude

Cursor

Gemini Canvas

Retool

Figma

Job description

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 Publishing group at the New York Times aims to create a robust content management system for all of the Times: one that empowers development teams to build and evolve innovative experiences with speed and agility, and one that empowers editors and creators with a unified and interconnected suite of tools they can use with confidence to make the world's best journalism.

We are looking for a Senior Designer with a passion for journalism, design and technology to lead Design for the systems and workflows related to the production of media: images, videos, and audio.

As a Senior Designer, you will build complex features for these systems that take into account industry trends, business objectives, the needs of internal product development teams, as well as the needs of the journalists who use our CMS tools. You'll design solutions that pull together distributed media workflows into centralized systems on our publishing platform. You'll be a member of the Media Leads team along with a Technical Product Manager, an Engineering Manager and an Engineering Lead to provide direction for and oversee the execution of the roadmap. You'll scale through a Product Designer to deliver features and you'll report to the Executive Director of Product Design, Publishing.

This is an individual contributor role. At The Times, Senior Product Designers are not only focused on working with cross-functional teams, but learning about our products and continuing to sharpen their design skills from more experienced designers on the team. The Senior Product Designer will have successfully executed the design of complex features that has led to hitting team and company goals and seen them through a release cycle. They are an emerging leader with deepening expertise.

This is a hybrid role based in New York City.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate on high-level product strategy, ensuring we're asking the right questions and solving for distinct needs.
• Navigate complex stakeholder needs across News and sub-brand editorial teams, internal system teams, and our business.
• Work with engineers and product teams to ensure design quality and consistency of shipped flows and interactions.
• Create clear, realistic, data-driven prototypes at high fidelity that leverage live APIs to inform Design and Engineering decisions.
• Create documentation (e.g. user journeys, experience maps, wireframes, frameworks) to lead conversations, build alignment, and help make decisions.
• Take product ideas and hone them into multiple solutions and concrete approaches, then collaboratively narrow ideas and establish requirements.
• Contribute to team and product design rituals.
• Nurture our design team, with an eye towards inspiring and mentoring your teammates and enhancing processes and learning.
• 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.
• You will report to the Executive Director of Product Design, Publishing.

Basic Qualifications:

• A portfolio of work that showcases your design process along with finished design work.
• 5+ years of experience designing digital web or app products.
• 3+ years experience designing interactive products or tools.
• 1+ years of system design experience or working on platforms.
• Recent experience creating coded prototypes that use real datasets.
• Proficient in building prototypes with agentic coding tools such as (Claude, Cursor, Gemini Canvas, Retool, Figma).
• Proficient in design tools such as Figma.
• Experience with AI-assisted generative design.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in an Agile development environment.
• Experience facilitating alignment through workshopping, brainstorms and cross functional collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with content management systems and media production workflows.
• Demonstrated experience with visual design principles, type hierarchies and layout, and systems.
• Experience designing or conceptualizing large solutions while also aligning user and business goals.
• Experience presenting design decisions and impact.

Compensation and Benefits For This Role:

In addition to base salary, this role is also eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock.

• Medical benefits.
• Dental and vision benefits.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s).
• A company-matching 401(k) plan.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Paid vacation.
• Paid sick days.
• Paid parental leave.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Professional development programs.

The annual base pay range for this role is between:

$120,000 — $145,000 USD

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