Yahoo is a leading digital media company known for its popular Yahoo Mail service. They are seeking a Senior Product Designer to lead the design strategy for monetization in Yahoo Mail, focusing on creating user-centered advertising experiences that drive revenue while maintaining product quality.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the design strategy for Yahoo Mail ads monetization, including ad formats, placements, and in-product surfaces that drive sustainable revenue while preserving a high-quality inbox experience
- Own the end-to-end design process for complex monetization features, from concept through launch, ensuring solutions are scalable, user-centered, and production-ready
- Leverage AI tools to refine and finesse design ideas, accelerate prototyping, and streamline creative tasks while maintaining high craft and ownership of the final output
- Translate monetization strategy into clear experience direction by exploring and prototyping new advertising formats and placements in partnership with Product, Engineering, Data, Sales and Revenue teams
- Design advertising experiences with an understanding of ad-serving and programmatic constraints, ensuring solutions are both user-centered and technically viable
- Partner with Legal and Privacy teams to design compliant, trust-forward advertising experiences that meet regulatory requirements and user expectations
- Design and validate advertising experiences through usability testing, research, and experimentation, iterating on designs using qualitative and quantitative data to improve performance, clarity, and trust
- Apply sound design judgment to make informed trade-offs that balance user needs, advertiser value, business objectives, and technical constraints
- Use design to clarify decisions, reduce ambiguity, and help teams maintain momentum when work is blocked
- Contribute to Yahoo Mail’s design system by creating and refining ad-specific patterns and improving documentation to support scalable solutions
- Mentor other designers and facilitate critiques or working sessions to raise design quality and align teams on direction