Senior Product Designer, Growth

FULL TIME ON-SITE SENIOR
Posted 2 months ago

Quick Summary

Role Overview

The New York Times is seeking a Senior Product Designer to join the Growth mission in New York City. You will create web and app experiences that drive the digital subscription business by improving profile and subscription management.

Key Responsibilities

  • Support high-level product strategy to solve for distinct user needs
  • Collaborate with engineers to ensure design quality and consistency
  • Create user journeys and wireframes to lead decision-making processes
  • Mentor junior designers and contribute to team rituals
  • Establish scalable design solutions for complex subscription products
  • Manage stakeholder needs while driving a long-term product vision

Requirements Snapshot

  • Portfolio showcasing design process and finished digital work
  • Five or more years of digital product design experience
  • Experience designing features for multiple pricing tiers and sets
  • Proficiency in design tools like Figma and LLM tooling
  • Ability to facilitate alignment through workshops and collaboration

Expected Impact

You will accelerate the digital subscription business by designing experiences that identify, engage, and convert audiences into subscribers. Your work will directly improve the craft and quality of profile and subscription management across all platforms, securing the institution's position as a successful journalistic leader.

This summary was generated from the original job posting (AI-assisted, human-reviewed). For full details, see the description below.

Job Description

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for. 

Mission Overview & Responsibilities

The New York Times is looking for a Senior Product Designer to join the Growth mission to create first-in-class web and app experiences that drive our digital subscription business forward.

The Growth mission at The New York Times is accelerating our digital subscription business to secure The New York Times's position as the most successful journalistic institution in the world. Product designers within Growth accomplish this by designing experiences that identify our most qualified audiences, engage them, and convert them into new subscribers and retain them.

You will improve the craft and quality of our profile and subscription management experiences across web and app platforms. As an individual contributor and emerging leader, you will establish scalable design solutions for complex products, managing stakeholder needs while driving a long-term vision. This role is ideal for a designer curious about the subscription funnel and its challenges and opportunities. They enjoy identifying hypotheses for their work, creating solutions that balance user and business needs, and seeing the direct impact of their work.

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

Responsibilities:

  • Support high-level product strategy, ensuring we're asking the right questions and solving for distinct needs.

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

  • Create necessary documentation (e.g., user journeys, wireframes, frameworks) to lead conversations, build consensus, and help make decisions.

  • Contribute to team rituals, nurture the design team, and mentor junior designers to strengthen the design function.

  • 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 Design Manager, Growth.

Basic Qualifications

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

  • 5+ years of experience designing digital web or app products.

  • 1+ years of designing features dealing with multiple pricing tiers and feature sets, accommodating several permutations.

  • Proficient in design tools such as Figma.

  • Proficient in LLM tooling such as (Claude, Cursor, Gemini Canvas, FigmaMake).

  • Experience facilitating alignment through workshopping, brainstorms and cross functional collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Demonstrated experience designing and conceptualizing large solutions that drive operational efficiency and align with user and business objectives.

  • Formal experience presenting design decisions and impact.

  • Experience writing copy for user interfaces that guides users and creating assets that follow established strategies to enhance that messaging.

  • Deepened experience designing for multi-variant testing.

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:

$120,000 - $144,000 USD

For roles in the U.S., dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits may include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs. 

For roles outside of the U.S., information on benefits will be provided during the interview process.

The New York Times Company is committed to being the world’s best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. To do so, we embrace a diverse workforce that has a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. We encourage people from all  backgrounds to apply.

We are  an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.  The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)’s Know Your Rights Poster is available here

The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws. Individuals seeking an accommodation for the application or interview process should email reasonable.accommodations@nytimes.com. Emails sent for unrelated issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

The Company encourages those with criminal histories to apply, and will consider their applications in a manner consistent with applicable "Fair Chance" laws, including but not limited to the NYC Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.

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