Sr Product Designer, Growth & Experimentation

ouryahoo; United States; Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401k

Backup childcare

Education stipends

Flexible hybrid work

Job summary

Yahoo Mail Growth & Experimentation seeks a Senior Product Designer with strong product thinking, visual craft, and systems-level design to drive growth across desktop, mobile web, iOS, and Android. You will work in a cross-functional squad with research, content, marketing, and platform teams to ground decisions in user insight and measurable outcomes.

The role emphasizes ambiguity, experimentation velocity, and AI-driven improvements to the design process and velocity while maintaining a high

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing consumer web/mobile products at scale, leading growth/experimentation.
• Strong portfolio showing product thinking and visual craft for complex ecosystems.
• Experience using AI-powered design tools to speed exploration and prototyping.
• Proven ability to ship experiments that improve DAU or engagement.

Responsibilities

• Lead design strategy across growth surfaces to impact activation and retention.
• Translate strategy into direction with product, engineering, and data teams.
• Use qualitative and quantitative insights to identify opportunities and run experiments.
• Contribute to Yahoo Mail’s design system with growth patterns.
• Mentor designers and guide critique to align on strategic direction.
• Identify AI-driven efficiencies in ideation and design-to-engineering workflow.

Skills

Growth design

User-centered design

AI-assisted design

Experimentation

Systems thinking

Tools

Figma

Cursor

Claude code

Claude design

Job description

A Little About Us

Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with hundreds of millions of users. It’s the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone, or tablet. With its beautiful design and lightning-fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever.

The Yahoo Mail Growth & Experimentation team is responsible for designing and evolving experiences that drive user acquisition, activation, and engagement across the Mail ecosystem. We focus on running rapid experiments across key lifecycle surfaces, scaling what works, and building reusable solutions that compound impact over time.

Who We’re Looking For

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer with strong product thinking, visual craft, and systems-level design skills to work on Yahoo Mail’s growth and experimentation initiatives across desktop, mobile web, iOS, and Android. In this role, you will be embedded in a dedicated cross-functional squad while also partnering with user research, content, marketing, and platform teams to inform experience strategy and ensure design decisions are grounded in both user insight and measurable outcomes.

The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity and brings deep experimentation instincts to complex growth decisions - leading initiatives that drive acquisition, activation, and engagement while maintaining a view of AI as a fundamental tool for increasing impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design strategy across high-leverage growth surfaces (onboarding flows, engagement loops, lifecycle nudges, and habit systems) to drive measurable impact on activation and retention.
• Translate growth strategy into clear experience direction by exploring and pressure-testing design solutions in partnership with Product, Engineering, and Data teams.
• Use qualitative and quantitative insights to identify opportunities across growth surfaces, iterating on experiments to learn quickly and improve core business metrics.
• Contribute to Yahoo Mail’s design system by creating and refining growth-related patterns that support scalable, reusable solutions.
• Mentor other designers and facilitate critiques to resolve ambiguity and align on strategic direction across the business area.
• Identify and implement AI-driven efficiencies in the ideation and design-to-engineering workflow, replacing repetitive manual tasks with automated or AI-assisted prototyping cycles.
• Maintain a solutions-oriented mindset, proactively suggesting AI-driven improvements to the team’s creative process and experimentation velocity.

About You

• Draw on all aspects of product design (IA, complex flows, motion, and visual design) to create cohesive, scalable growth experiences.
• Think in systems, designing growth and experimentation patterns that work across surfaces while maintaining clarity and consistency.
• Deliver consistent, polished layouts through strong typography, color, and visual hierarchy.
• Bring a commitment to experiment velocity, ideating and shipping experiments with speed and rigor while scaling learnings into reusable patterns.
• Partner effectively with Product Managers and Data Scientists on data-informed initiatives, using metrics such as activation rate and experiment lift to inform design decisions.
• Comfort operating in evolving, AI-augmented environments, with a focus on continuous learning and experimentation to improve velocity while maintaining a high craft bar.
• Demonstrate high emotional intelligence in cross-functional collaboration, contributing to a respectful, inclusive, and constructive design culture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing consumer web and/or mobile products at scale, with a proven track record leading growth, onboarding, or experimentation programs.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating user-centered product thinking, polished visual craft, and thoughtful interaction design for complex ecosystems.
• Experience utilizing AI-powered design tools and generative workflows to accelerate exploration, prototyping, and asset generation.
• Demonstrated experience working on growth surfaces (onboarding, notifications, engagement loops) with a track record of shipping experiments that drove measurable DAU or engagement impact.
• Ability to own the quality bar for AI-assisted design work, ensuring high standards for craft and usability are maintained.
• Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Cursor, Claude code, Claude design etc) to communicate concepts, flows, and specifications.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html or call +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace strengthens Yahoo and deepens our relationships. When you support everyone to be their best selves, they spark discovery, innovation and creativity. Among other efforts, our 11 employee resource groups (ERGs) enhance a culture of belonging with programs, events and fellowship that help educate, support and create a workplace where all feel welcome.

The compensation for this position ranges from $128,250.00 - $266,875.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience.

The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions.

• healthcare
• a great 401k
• backup childcare
• education stipends
• and much (much) more.