Mission Overview & Responsibilities: 

This is an individual contributor role. At The Times, Associate Product Designers are focused on not only honing their design skills, but learning about our products and design methodologies from the more experienced designers on the team. Our intention is to begin to develop your skills as a designer and provide you with mentorship to help grow you in your career.

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

Responsibilities:

Collect and incorporate feedback from fellow team members.

Become familiar with the current state of a system or user experience.

Establish familiarity with product design and the release cycle by supporting work and contributing components that lead to hitting team and our goals.

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

Contribute to team and product design rituals.

Practice transparency around keeping your team and mentors updated on your status.

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 Product Design Director.

Basic Qualifications:

A portfolio of work that showcases your design process along with finished design work.

1+ years of experience designing digital web or app products, with recent experience designing interactive products or tools.

Proficient in using digital design tools such as Figma.

Experience adapting to changing priorities and incorporating feedback from colleagues to refine work.

Preferred Qualifications: 

Demonstrated experience with visual design principles, type hierarchies and layout, and systems.

Proficient in prototyping tools (Figma, Play, Cursor).

Experience showing design decisions and impact.

Experience with user research and synthesis.

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