Product Designer, Advertising

Mission Overview & Responsibilities: 

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 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 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. You will also improve current experiences to provide more value to users while enhancing performance for advertisers. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys identifying hypotheses to guide the creation of solutions that balance both the needs of our users and the company.

This is an individual contributor role. At The Times, Product Designers focus on working across teams, learning about our products, and sharpening their design skills from more experienced designers on the team. You will design features that lead to meeting team and our goals and seeing them through a full release cycle. You are a trusted team contributor.

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

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.

• Hones product ideas into multiple solutions and viable approaches, then collaboratively narrows ideas and establishes requirements.

• Contribute to team and product design rituals.

• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a 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.

• 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 designing for A/B or multivariate testing.

• Experience with user research and synthesis.

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