Mission Overview & Responsibilities: 

The News App team shapes how millions of readers experience The New York Times on iOS and Android. We design the interfaces that make it easier to discover and engage with the full breadth of our journalism—ensuring every interaction is highly-crafted, intuitive, and accessible. As a Principal Product Designer on this team, you'll lead the creation of the interfaces that improve how users navigate our content while helping to inform, inspire, and retain both new and longtime subscribers.

Principal Product Designers at The Times are the most prominent and influential individual contributors in our Product Design organization. They are focused on using and championing cross-team collaboration and communication to achieve cross-functional team goals. Principal Product Designers will have guided and executed the design of multiple products or platforms, and will have seen them through over multiple years. This design work has impacted the company's trajectory in a significant way. You will lend your skills and expertise to grow and support more junior design team members. They are innovators whose impacts raise the standard within the industry.

This is an individual contributor role. This is a remote position.

Responsibilities:

Identify opportunities for evolving the product with senior-level cross-functional team members while offering expertise in how design can shape the product strategy.

Champion new feature implementation by providing a user-centered perspective to the team's solution

Establish practices that drive toward faster iteration and learning, enable high impact work to launch, and increase knowledge and creativity in a function or mission.

Drive culture change, increasing the trust, diversity, and a sense of belonging within a mission or function

Guide the growth of high-performing ICs through collaboration, and mentorship.

Represent your team's work to leadership within the company while also advocating for the craft and process of product design.

Contribute to team and product design rituals alongside participating in hiring for design roles within the product design team.

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 VP of Product Design.

Basic Qualifications: 

A portfolio of work that shows 10+ years understanding user-centered design principles and showcases your design process along with finished design work.

10+ years of experience designing digital web, app products, interactive products, or tools.

An understanding of iOS and Android best practices.

Proficiency in using design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Play or Cursor.

10+ years of experience facilitating alignment through workshopping, brainstorms and cross functional collaboration.

10+ years experience breaking down big challenges into smaller decisions framed as trade-offs (e.g. time vs. scope).

10+ years of experience working with data and qualitative research teams to inform product and design decisions.

10+ years creating compelling narratives to communicate with non-designers such as customers, partners, stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications: 

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

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

Strong ability to show design decisions and impact.

Experience designing products centered around user behavior and nuances that encourage positive engagement.

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