semafor

Senior Product Designer

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At a Glance

Location
New York, United States
Experience
5+ years
Compensation
for this position ranges from $130,000 - $170,000 per year. Individual compensa
Posted
2026-07-27T14:42:44-04:00

Key Requirements

Domain Knowledge

  • Engineering
  • Marketing
  • Media
  • Medical

Compensation & Benefits

$130,000 - $170,000

per year. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including business needs, experience, level of responsibility, and qualifications.

Responsibilities

Work with our Product team to envision and design innovative news products, developing multiple alternative approaches to product problems and keeping usability top of mind.

Partner closely with Editorial, Product, and Engineering to design and launch elegant and technically feasible solutions.

Hold a high bar for the Semafor product experience, ensuring our products feel cohesive and considered.

Support marketing and audience functions to create brand materials that align with Semafor’s digital products.

Contribute to Semafor’s design systems and brand guidelines; ensure visual consistency across platforms and teams globally.

Collaborate with freelancers and other designers, offering critique and feedback to help maintain consistently high-quality design output across the team.

About the Company

Semafor is a global news platform for an increasingly complex world in which consumers are overwhelmed by too many news sources and unsure what to trust. We are building Semafor to enable world-class journalists to deliver reporting and insights with rigor in journalistic forms that ensure a new level of transparency. Our editors and reporters distill the most important stories from all over in formats that uncover the forces shaping the stories, explain the interests behind polarizing narratives, and replenish the stock of shared facts. As a global platform, Semafor recognizes that smart people can disagree and that informed readers need to understand alternative points of view from competing centers of power and culture in a multi-polar world. Want to join us? Read on.