Product Designer, Subscription Conversion at The New York Times

New York, New York, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

01 Jan, 26

Salary

125000.0

Posted On

03 Oct, 25

Experience

2 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Product Design, Visual Design, User Research, Prototyping, Figma, User Journey, Growth Strategy, Design Patterns, Collaboration, Documentation, A/B Testing, Stakeholder Engagement, Design Systems, Copywriting, Interaction Design, Experience Mapping

Industry

Newspaper Publishing

Description

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 Product Designers 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. Your priority is subscription growth. You'll use your visual design skills to communicate the breadth of the Times subscription and its value. You'll contribute to, and help evolve, growth design patterns across our products across web and app surfaces while improving our subscription acquisition experience. This role is great if you enjoy identifying hypotheses for your work, creating solutions that balance user and business needs, and seeing the direct impact of your work. This is an individual contributor role. At The Times, Product Designers are not only focused on working with cross-functional teams, but also learning about our products and sharpening their design skills from more experienced designers on the team. The Product Designer will have successfully executed the design of features that have led to hitting team and company goals and seen them through release cycles. They are a trusted team contributor. 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 design quality and consistency of shipped flows and interactions. Create documentation (e.g. user journeys, experience maps, wireframes, frameworks) to lead conversations, build consensus, and help make decisions. Take product ideas and hone them into multiple solutions and concrete approaches, then collaboratively narrow ideas and establish requirements. Contribute to team and product design rituals. 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 Product Design Director, Conversion. Basic Qualifications: A portfolio of work that showcases your design process along with finished design work. 3+ years of experience designing digital products—both websites and apps—with recent experience working in user journey or growth problem spaces. 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 prototyping tools such as (Play, Cursor, Gemini Canvas, Retool, Figma) Experience with user research and synthesis. Preferred Qualifications: Demonstrated experience with visual design principles, type hierarchies and layout, and design systems. Strong ability to show design decisions and impact. Experience working with stakeholders. Experience designing for A/B or multivariate testing. Experience writing copy for user interfaces that guides users. REQ-018952 #LI-Hybrid The annual base pay range for this role is between: $104,000—$125,000 USD 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. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)’s Know Your Rights Poster is available here. The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws. Individuals seeking an accommodation for the application or interview process should email reasonable.accommodations@nytimes.com. Emails sent for unrelated issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response. The Company will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of appliable "Fair Chance" laws, including but not limited to the NYC Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. 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Responsibilities

The Product Designer will create web and app experiences that drive digital subscription growth. They will work with cross-functional teams to ensure design quality and contribute to product design rituals.