Senior Product Designer, Ad Mission

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 New York Times Ad Mission is looking for a Senior Product Designer to design and deliver compelling ad experiences to our audience of millions of curious users, across all of our products.

New York Times Advertising elevates brands through the world's most premium ad experiences. The Ad Mission aims to deliver scaled ad products that are relevant to our audience and are high performant, driving measurable impact and delivering strong outcomes for our advertisers.

As a Senior Product Designer in the Ad Mission, you will help shape the future of advertising within a world-renowned media organization. You will create unique advertising experiences across the many user journeys of our products. You will also optimize current experiences to provide more value to users while enhancing performance for advertisers. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys identifying strong hypotheses. These hypotheses guide the creation of strategic design solutions that balance user and business needs. The solutions demonstrate a direct and positive impact to our users and the company.

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 execute the design of complex features that lead to meeting team and company goals and seeing them through a full release cycle. They are an emerging leader with deepening expertise.

This is a hybrid position, based in our New York City headquarters.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate on high-level product strategy, ensuring we're asking the right questions and solving for distinct needs.

• Work with engineers and product teams to ensure design quality and consistency of shipped flows and interactions.

• 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 documentation.

• Contribute to the team's productivity, efficiency, learning and creativity.

• 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 for the Ad Mission.

Basic Qualifications: 

• A portfolio of work that showcases your process along with finished design work. Must demonstrate experience and strong proficiency of visual design principles, typography, visual hierarchy, and design systems.

• 5+ years of experience designing digital web or app products —with experience working through user journeys.

• Proficient in design tools such as Figma.

• Proficient in prototyping tools such as (Play, Cursor, Gemini, Figma).

• Experience facilitating alignment through workshopping, brainstorms and cross functional collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with digital advertising.

• Experience designing or conceptualizing large solutions while also aligning user and and business goals (which may contradict).

• Experience designing for A/B or multivariate testing.

• Experience working with stakeholders.

• Experience with user research and synthesis.

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:$120,000—$145,000 USD

For roles in the U.S., dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits may include 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. 

For roles outside of the U.S., information on benefits will be provided during the interview process.

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