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Senior Product Designer

Senior Product Designer

CompanyConde Nast
LocationNew York, NY, USA
Salary$110000 – $135000
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • At least five years of design experience, preferably working on consumer-facing digital products
  • Proficiency in Figma or Sketch (Figma preferred)
  • Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written), with the ability to define and defend the rationale behind decisions
  • Experience working on cross-functional teams, collaborating closely with product managers and engineers
  • Proficiency in quality assurance processes for both functional and visual QA, in collaboration with engineering
  • A commitment to typographic excellence, and a sensitivity to the most minute details
  • An understanding of how qualitative research and data inform product and design decisions
  • Experience creating advanced prototypes utilizing real content and data; harnessing video or animation when necessary
  • Experience working within a design system, and an understanding of when to create new extensible patterns
  • Proactive work ethic, including the ability to take direction while also showing initiative
  • Familiarity with the history, style, and values of The New Yorker

Responsibilities

  • Driving clarity as a primary designer on projects, managing the design from inception to delivery
  • Crafting deliverables that create clarity throughout the product development and design process: developing frameworks, user flows, mockups, prototypes, final visuals, and rigorously annotated designs
  • Supporting high-level product strategy, ensuring we’re asking the right questions and solving for actual user and business needs
  • Creating clarity in undefined yet complex problem spaces
  • Preparing artifacts for user research, and participating in user research sessions
  • Collaborate with engineers in multiple locations, on implementing the features you design, and ensure the visual and user experience quality of our output
  • Maintaining, contributing to, and evolving a robust design system used by Condé Nast’s portfolio of brands
  • Sustainably translating the visual language of our brands to new scenarios and applications
  • Engaging with thoughtful critique within your direct team as well as with stakeholders from Editorial and other adjacent departments

Preferred Qualifications

  • Familiarity with the history, style, and values of The New Yorker