Senior Product Designer
About the Role
This role is on the New York Magazine dedicated Product team, which is responsible for the customer touchpoints that pertain to all its digital products. This role will also partner directly with Consumer Revenue, Editorial and other teams when required.
The Product team analyzes and creates the platforms that connect New York Magazine’s content with our audiences. We’re adept, curious problem-solvers who transform creative ideas into successful products. Great design and user experience are essential to our ability to connect with our readers, and the Product Design team plays an important role in what we create, ensuring that our products are engaging, useful, and beautiful.
Responsibilities:
- Generate digital experiences & interfaces for consumer revenue & subscription, and adjacent products.
- Design and execute projects across the entire product lifecycle, from concepts to multi-platform product launches.
- Present solutions to stakeholders, frame design decisions, articulate tradeoffs, and advocate for the reader and subscriber, while concurrently driving core business objectives.
- Solve complex design problems, while synthesizing multiple inputs along the way.
- Evaluate, iterate & optimize existing product performance.
- Contribute to and maintain scalable pattern libraries & design systems that uphold a family of brand identities across platforms and touchpoints.
- Collaborate cross functionally with engineering, product, and data, as well as consumer revenue and editorial stakeholders on product strategy and execution.
- Participate in design rituals, give and receive constructive feedback, and help elevate the broader design team's culture and process.
- You will report to the VP of Product Design, NYmag.com.
Basic Qualifications:
- A design degree: Product Design, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- 5+ years professional experience with a portfolio showcasing end-to-end responsive web and app experiences.
- 5+ years creating complex typography systems, visual hierarchies, and scalable design systems.
- 3+ years of experience designing for digital media, editorial, subscription, or commerce platforms.
- Success translating multiple brand identities across several digital platforms and touchpoints.
- Meticulous attention to detail, and enthusiasm for design iteration.
- Ability to work autonomously, own projects end-to-end, and collaborate effectively within a team.
- Solid understanding of modern digital technologies, information architecture, and accessibility standards.
- 3-5 years experience working in Figma, including prototyping, component libraries & design systems
- 1-2 years experience vibecoding to ship small features, and to build working prototype
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience designing high-converting subscription funnels and/or promotional messaging systems.
- Ability to, (or willingness to learn) integrate AI tools into design+dev process
- Experience with editorial production workflows and digital news publishing environments.
- Experience using user research and analytics to validate design decisions and measure post-launch impact.
- Enthusiasm toward journalism, New York Magazine’s editorial mission, and its design legacy
PAY TRANSPARENCY
The salary range listed below represents the minimum and maximum base pay for this position at the time of this posting. Final salary offered to the candidate selected for the position will be based on factors including but not limited to the candidate's skills and experience.
OUR DEI COMMITMENT
Vox Media is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can show up as their authentic selves and create their best work. We recognize that great stories, platforms, products and services come from people with all manner of backgrounds and experiences. We recognize that our commitments require ongoing work and sustained attention, as well as adaptation to new insights and best practices.
Vox Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer and qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law. Vox Media will also consider all qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with applicable Fair Chance laws. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations as part of the application process to candidates with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation as part of the application process, please contact our recruiting team ([email protected]).
WHAT COMES NEXT
Our recruiting team will go through applications in a timely manner. Please note that our recruiting team will only contact you from @voxmedia.com email addresses, never via text message. Read more about how our recruiting team operates, and how to protect yourself from recruitment fraud, here.
Skills Required
- Degree in Product Design, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of professional experience with a portfolio showcasing end-to-end responsive web and app experiences
- 5+ years creating complex typography systems, visual hierarchies, and scalable design systems
- 3+ years of experience designing for digital media, editorial, subscription, or commerce platforms
- Experience translating multiple brand identities across digital platforms and touchpoints
- Meticulous attention to detail and enthusiasm for design iteration
- Ability to work autonomously, own projects end-to-end, and collaborate effectively within a team
- Solid understanding of modern digital technologies, information architecture, and accessibility standards
- 3–5 years of experience working in Figma, including prototyping, component libraries, and design systems
- 1–2 years of experience vibecoding to ship small features and build working prototypes
- Experience designing high-converting subscription funnels or promotional messaging systems
- Ability or willingness to integrate AI tools into the design and development process
- Experience with editorial production workflows and digital news publishing environments
- Experience using user research and analytics to validate design decisions and measure post-launch impact
- Enthusiasm for journalism, New York Magazine’s editorial mission, and its design legacy
What We Do
Vox empowers talented web voices and their audiences on @sbnation, @verge, @polygon, @eater, @curbed, @racked and @voxdotcom.
