Principal Product Designer, News App

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A portfolio of work that shows 10+ years understanding user-centered design principles and showcases your design process along with finished design work.

10+ years of experience designing digital web, app products, interactive products, or tools.

An understanding of iOS and Android best practices.

Proficiency in using design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Play or Cursor.

10+ years of experience facilitating alignment through workshopping, brainstorms and cross functional collaboration.

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The News App team shapes how millions of readers experience The New York Times on iOS and Android. We design the interfaces that make it easier to discover and engage with the full breadth of our journalism—ensuring every interaction is highly-crafted, intuitive, and accessible. As a Principal Product Designer on this team, you'll lead the creation of the interfaces that improve how users navigate our content while helping to inform, inspire, and retain both new and longtime subscribers.

Principal Product Designers at The Times are the most prominent and influential individual contributors in our Product Design organization. They are focused on using and championing cross-team collaboration and communication to achieve cross-functional team goals. Principal Product Designers will have guided and executed the design of multiple products or platforms, and will have seen them through over multiple years. This design work has impacted the company's trajectory in a significant way. You will lend your skills and expertise to grow and support more junior design team members. They are innovators whose impacts raise the standard within the industry.

This is an individual contributor role. This is a remote position.

Identify opportunities for evolving the product with senior-level cross-functional team members while offering expertise in how design can shape the product strategy.