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.
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About the role:
The New York Times is looking for a Product Designer for the App Platforms team. App Platforms enables cross-app development, and centralizes mobile technology and operations to increase the effectiveness of teams who work on apps and amplify impact across our bundle of products, including News, Cooking, and Games. Designers who work on our platforms support the shared user experiences around our foundational systems, such as user identity, payment systems, and messaging.
This role is a full-time temporary role, with an estimated engagement of 6-8 months. This role is not a contract to hire. This is a remote friendly role.
Responsibilities:
This is an individual contributor role. You will report to the Product Design Director of Core Platforms. You will partner with product designers, engineers and product teams on projects to help the New York Times reach our product goals.
Our products are cross-platform, so you will support iOS and Android while informing web-based experiences. You'll partner with fellow designers and researchers to uncover challenges that users have throughout their relationship with us, and use these findings to inform your design decisions. You'll pair with engineering partners to ensure the quality of shipped features.
At The Times, Product Designers are not only focused on working with cross-functional teams, but learning about our products and sharpening their design skills from more experienced designers on the team. The Product Designer will have designed features that have led to delivering team and company goals, and seen them through a release cycle. They are a trusted team contributor.
We value an environment of learning and collaboration. You'll cultivate your craft skills with the support of fellow designers, attending regular design rituals where you'll receive and provide critique, and identify opportunities for consistency across the function.
You will:
- Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and production-ready design deliverables for iOS and Android
- Create design documentation (user journeys, experience maps, frameworks) to drive conversations, build shared understanding and consensus, and help make decisions
- Hone product ideas into multiple solutions and concrete approaches with established requirements
- Collaborate with engineers and product teams to ensure design quality and consistency of shipped flows and interactions across the user experience
- Contribute to team and product design rituals
Basic Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience designing digital web or app products, with recent experience designing interactive products.
- A portfolio of work that showcases your design process along with finished design work.
- Advanced proficiency in a digital design tool such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or Invision.
- Experience and comfort communicating design decisions to a variety of audiences
- An understanding of technologies used to build modern digital experiences
Preferred Qualifications
- Comfort working across different levels of fidelity to explore, align and deliver solutions
- Experience designing and delivering accessible user experiences, especially for mobile
- Experience or enthusiasm for working with design systems to uphold design quality and consistency
- Enthusiasm for iOS and Android design best practices and the mission of The New York Times
The hourly rate of base pay for this role is:
The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.
The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does 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 New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws, and will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable "Fair Chance" laws.
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