The New York Times is hiring: Product Designer, Advertising in New York

Overview

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

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

As a Product Designer in the Ad Mission, you help shape the future of advertising within a world-renowned media organization. You will create new advertising experiences across the many user journeys of our products and improve current experiences to provide more value to users while enhancing performance for advertisers. This role balances user needs with company goals through hypothesis-driven design in a cross-functional environment.

This is an individual contributor role. Product Designers work across teams, learn about our products, and sharpen their design skills from more experienced designers on the team. You will design features that align with team and product goals and participate in a full release cycle. You are a trusted team contributor.

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

Responsibilities

• Support high-level product strategy, ensuring the right questions are asked and distinct needs are solved.
• Collaborate with engineers and product teams to ensure quality and consistency of design and interactions.
• Create documentation (e.g., audits, user journeys, experience maps, wireframes, frameworks) to lead conversations, build alignment, and facilitate decision-making.
• Hone product ideas into multiple solutions and viable approaches, then collaboratively narrow ideas and establish requirements.
• Contribute to team and product design rituals.
• Report to the Executive Director of Product Design for the Ad Mission.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• A portfolio of work that showcases your process along with finished design work.
• 3+ years of experience designing digital products—both websites and apps—with recent experience working in user journey or growth problem spaces.
• Proficiency in using digital design tools such as Figma, Sketch or Adobe XD.
• Demonstrated experience with visual design principles, layouts, and design systems.
• Proficient in prototyping tools.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with digital advertising.
• Experience with user research and synthesis.

The annual base pay range for this role is between $104,000 - $125,000 USD.

The New York Times Company is committed to being the world’s best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. We embrace a diverse workforce and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or gender identity and expression, disability, or other characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration without regard to legally protected characteristics. The U.S. EEOC Know Your Rights Poster is available here.

The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable laws. Individuals seeking an accommodation for the application or interview process should email reasonable.accommodations@nytimes.com. The Company will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with Fair Chance laws.

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