Senior Product Designer, Growth

Growth Mission Overview

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.

The annual base pay range for this role is between $120,000 and $144,000 USD. For roles in the U.S., 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.

Benefits & Policies

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.

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