Product Designer, Storytelling

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Mission Overview & Responsibilities:

The Storytelling team collaborates with our newsroom to innovate across storytelling formats, surfaces and experiences and the tools that power them.

This Product Designer role is focused on designing for video experiences. You will also contribute across a variety of editorially grounded projects. You will partner with product managers, editors, engineers, researchers, and data scientists in a news-driven environment. You will improve our product experience and potentially support iOS, Android, and web projects.

This is an individual contributor role. At The Times, Product Designers are not only focused on working with cross-functional teams, they also sharpen their design skills together with more experienced designers on the team. The Product Designer will execute the design of features that lead to hitting team and company goals and see them through a release cycle. They are a trusted team contributor.

This is a hybrid position, based in our New York City headquarters.

Responsibilities:

• Conceptualize and prototype multiple storytelling formats and authoring tools.
• Support high-level product strategy, ensuring we're asking the right questions and solving for distinct needs.
• Create visuals to lead conversations, build consensus, and help make decisions.
• Take editorial and product ideas, hone them into multiple approaches, and collaboratively narrow to establish requirements.
• Work with engineers and product teams to ensure design quality and consistency of shipped features and interactions.
• Contribute to team and product design rituals.
• You will report to a Design Director within the Storytelling mission.

Basic Qualifications:

• A portfolio of work showcasing your design process along with finished design work
• 3+ years of digital web or app design experience, including video or multimedia
• 2+ years of editorial design experience (or experience working in news/media)
• 2+ years of working collaboratively on projects that are known to pivot quickly
• Proficiency in digital design tools such as Figma
• Proficiency in prototyping tools (Invision, ProtoPie, Principle)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience contributing to product releases through multiple cycles
• Experience analyzing competitor experiences in online news conversation spaces
• Strong typography and visual design skills
• Understanding of reader needs and editor workflows

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:$104,000—$125,000 USD

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