Principal Product Designer

Summary

Join The New York Times News App team as a Principal Product Designer and lead the creation of interfaces that enhance user navigation and engagement with our journalism. As a prominent individual contributor, you will champion cross-team collaboration, guide junior designers, and contribute to the evolution of our iOS and Android apps. This remote position requires 10+ years of experience in user-centered design, digital product design, and cross-functional collaboration. You will identify opportunities for product improvement, implement new features, and establish practices that drive faster iteration and learning. You will also represent your team's work to leadership and participate in hiring for design roles.

Requirements

• 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

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

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

Benefits

Remote work, flexible hours