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About the Role

The New York Times is seeking a temporary Senior Product Designer to support the Growth mission by creating first-in-class web and app experiences that drive our digital subscription business forward. Product Designers within Growth identify, engage, and convert qualified audiences into new subscribers and retain them. This role is ideal for a designer interested in the subscription funnel, who enjoys identifying hypotheses, creating solutions that balance user and business needs, and seeing the direct impact of their work.

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 the design quality and consistency of shipped flows and interactions.
Create necessary documentation (e.g., user journeys, wireframes, frameworks) to lead conversations and help make decisions.
Contribute to team rituals, nurture the design team, and mentor junior designers to strengthen the design function.
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.

Requirements

A portfolio of work that showcases your design process along with finished design work.
5+ years of experience designing digital web or app products.
Experience designing complex user journeys, specifically involving subscription models, paywalls, or e-commerce funnels.
Experience facilitating alignment through workshopping, brainstorms and cross functional collaboration.
Experience designing and conceptualizing large solutions that drive operational efficiency and align with user and business goals.
Experience explaining design decisions and impact.
Experience writing copy for user interfaces that guides users and creating assets that follow established strategies to enhance that messaging.
Deepened experience designing for multi-variant testing.

Skills

Proficient in design tools such as Figma.
Proficient in LLM tooling such as (Claude, Cursor, Gemini Canvas, or FigmaMake).

Location

New York City

Work Type

Temporary
Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

$110—$140 USD per hour

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision benefits
Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
Company-matching 401(k) plan
Paid vacation
Paid sick days
Paid parental leave
Tuition reimbursement
Professional development programs

About the Company

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
Independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company.
We have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries.
We focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination.
Our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for.
The New York Times Company is committed to being the world’s best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism.
We embrace a diverse workforce that has a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across our ranks, at all levels of the organization.

Equal Opportunity

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 Company encourages those with criminal histories to apply, and will consider their applications in a manner consistent with applicable "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.