Product Designer, Yahoo Finance

Yahoo Finance is the world’s #1 finance destination, empowering investors with news, information, and tools to make financial decisions with confidence. Trusted by over 150M visitors globally each month, representing over $20 trillion dollars in investable assets, Yahoo Finance delivers high-quality real-time market data across desktop, mobile, and streaming platforms. With breaking news from thousands of sources, original editorial perspectives, objective analyst ratings and research, analytical charts and technical tools, personalized mobile alerts, and much more, Yahoo Finance equips investors with knowledge and insights to achieve financial freedom and greater prosperity.

About Yahoo Finance

Yahoo Finance is the world’s #1 destination for finance, offering investors the tools, news, and insights they need to make confident financial decisions. With over 150 million global visitors each month, representing over $20 trillion in investable assets, Yahoo Finance provides high-quality, real-time market data across desktop, mobile, and streaming platforms. From breaking news to original editorial perspectives, research, personalized alerts, and more, Yahoo Finance is here to empower investors on their journey to financial freedom and greater prosperity.

Why Yahoo Finance?

At Yahoo Finance, we believe that business news is for everyone—whether you’re a seasoned investor or just starting your financial journey. As the largest platform for financial information and tools worldwide, we’re excited to be under new leadership, with a renewed commitment to building and evolving the future of finance. As part of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to make a lasting impact, helping millions of people to navigate their financial decisions with confidence. If you’re a passionate product designer with an interest in finance, this role might be the perfect opportunity for you!

About the Role

As a Product Designer at Yahoo Finance, you will collaborate with a talented and diverse team to craft delightful and intuitive design experiences that resonate with our users. You’ll be involved in the product development cycle from start to finish—from strategy development, to brainstorming, prototyping and shipping innovative designs that set new standards for the product.

• Lead Design Initiatives: You will be the design lead on large, high-impact projects, and take ownership of key product features, shaping their design and ensuring they align with business goals.

• Collaborative Design Process: Work closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure that designs address user needs, company objectives, and the overall vision for the product.

• Innovation and Inspiration: Contribute your fresh perspectives to continuously improve and evolve the design process, helping to create new opportunities for growth and value creation.

• Mentorship and Growth: Support and mentor fellow designers, sharing your expertise in user experience design, design systems, and best practices to elevate the team’s overall design capabilities.

• Thought Leadership: Provide forward-thinking solutions to complex design challenges, and help establish the design vision and strategy for cross-functional teams.

• User-Centered Design: You’ll always advocate for the user, ensuring that every design decision is made with their experience, needs, and journey in mind.

Qualifications:

• Location: Mountain View or San Francisco Bay Area (Hybrid work environment)

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

• Experience: 7+ years of professional experience in product design, with a deep passion for creating meaningful user experiences.

• Design Expertise: Proficiency with UX software such as Figma, with a strong portfolio demonstrating your design solutions—focusing on how you’ve solved real user problems and created impactful user experiences.

• Design Leadership: Proven ability to take the lead on design strategy and foster collaboration across cross-functional teams.

• Excellent Communication: Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to advocate for design decisions and collaborate with diverse teams.

• Continuous Improvement: A track record of continuously refining and evolving product experiences, streamlining workflows, and improving designs based on user feedback and testing.

• Passion for Scalable Design: A deep love for design systems and a commitment to maintaining them for consistent and seamless user experiences.

• Technical Understanding: Solid foundational knowledge of HTML and CSS to communicate effectively with engineering teams.

• Additional Skills: Experience in data visualization or copywriting is a bonus.

What We Offer:

• Empowering Culture: A supportive, inclusive work environment where your voice matters and your ideas can make a difference.

• Career Advancement: Opportunities for growth and professional development, with the ability to mentor and inspire the next generation of designers.

• Global Impact: The chance to shape the future of Yahoo Finance and have a real impact on millions of users worldwide.

• Competitive Compensation and industry-leading benefits.

If you’re passionate about design, love to collaborate, and want to be part of a dynamic, supportive team that’s shaping the future of finance, we’d love to hear from you.

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The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

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The compensation for this position ranges from $128,250.00 - $266,875.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, in addition to equity incentives. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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