Senior Product Designer, Growth at The New York… · New York…

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. REQ-020031 #LI-Hybrid 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. 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