Senior Product Designer (The New Yorker)

Connecting reading and play to lasting habits

You design both games and the experiences around them, exploring and refining gameplay alongside discovery, onboarding, progress and returning to play. You connect this work to the wider reader experience, considering how each interaction builds familiarity, enjoyment and reasons to return. You question assumptions and work with your partners to define what is worth solving and how you’ll know it has worked

Bringing editorial character to digital experiences

You translate distinctive brand identities into clear, engaging interfaces. You bring care to typography, hierarchy, layout and interaction, balancing the character of the brand with usability, accessibility and the needs of different devices

Making interaction feel right

You use prototypes to explore behaviour, timing, motion and feedback. Whether you’re refining a reading journey, helping someone discover a game or developing an interaction within one, you pay attention to the details that make an experience intuitive and satisfying

Understanding readers and players

You seek out research, analytics and direct feedback to inform your decisions. You run lightweight usability testing, partnering with UX Research where deeper investigation is needed, and use what you learn to improve the work

Designing with and contributing to systems

You use shared components, patterns and design tokens confidently, recognising where consistency helps and where a new approach is justified. You contribute reusable solutions that support brand expression and work within the realities of our platforms

Staying close to implementation

You collaborate with engineers throughout the design process, discussing feasibility early and reviewing the experience as it is built. You work through interaction details, edge cases and visual QA so the quality of the shipped product reflects the intent of the design

Using AI as part of your practice

You explore where AI tools can add value to your design practice, building on your experience and learning alongside the team. You experiment with ways to develop ideas, prototype and collaborate with engineering, applying your judgement to the results and sharing what you learn

Learning from what ships

You agree intended outcomes with your product and engineering partners, then use analytics and qualitative feedback to understand performance. You connect design decisions to measures such as engagement, repeat use and retention, and identify where further iteration will make a difference

Contributing to the team

You communicate your thinking clearly, build productive relationships across disciplines and participate actively in critique. You share your work and methods, support other designers and bring an open, constructive approach to feedback

In your first six months, you’ll have developed an understanding of our readers, players, brands and platforms, and built effective relationships with your immediate partners. You’ll have taken a key role in shaping and delivering a meaningful initiative, with responsibility for progressing the design and room to influence its direction, working closely with the design lead. Your prototypes and design decisions will help the team resolve questions and move forward with confidence

By the end of your first year, you’ll have carried initiatives through launch and iteration, with evidence of what improved for users and what the team learned. You’ll be a trusted partner who can independently move work forward, maintain a high standard through implementation and contribute useful patterns and practices to the wider design team

Benefits

• Domestic Partner Benefit Extensions
• Free Mental Health Services
• Assistance in Refinancing Student Loans
• Long-term Remote Work Pilot
• Extended Bereavement leave
• Extended Parental Leave
• Added Adoption Financial Support