Senior Product Designer, Universal Navigation & AI Experiences

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through their portfolio of iconic products. They are seeking a Senior Product Designer to evolve Yahoo’s Universal Navigation System and enhance how AI integrates into navigation and discovery experiences across their products.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design of Yahoo’s universal navigation experiences across products and platforms, ensuring clarity, consistency, and scalability
• Design navigation systems that support a wide range of user intents while balancing business priorities and long-term platform needs
• Translate complex information architectures into intuitive, elegant interfaces with strong visual hierarchy and interaction design
• Collaborate with researchers to identify when research is needed, interpret findings, and synthesize patterns across qualitative and quantitative data
• Use AI-powered tools and workflows to rapidly explore concepts, generate alternatives, and create interactive prototypes throughout the design process
• Design and integrate AI-driven navigation patterns, such as personalized pathways, predictive suggestions, and conversational or assistive interfaces
• Prototype early and often—at low, medium, and high fidelity—to test assumptions, validate behaviors, and communicate design intent
• Advocate for accessibility, usability, and inclusive design across all navigation patterns and interactions, including AI-assisted experiences
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, content, analytics, and design partners to deliver production-ready solutions at scale
• Work alongside Senior Principal Product Designers on cross-cutting initiatives where navigation plays a critical role, aligning system-level decisions across teams
• Present work clearly and confidently to stakeholders, articulating rationale, tradeoffs, and decision-making under ambiguity
• Contribute to design critiques and help evolve shared navigation patterns, components, and systems across Yahoo, including emerging AI interaction paradigms

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Design, HCI, Visual Communication, or a related field
• 4+ years of experience designing digital products, preferably within large-scale platforms, content-rich ecosystems, or navigation frameworks
• A portfolio demonstrating strong systems thinking, excellent visual and interaction design craft, and polished execution
• Experience working on cross-functional product teams and shipping work at scale
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and accessibility standards
• Proficiency in Figma and modern prototyping tools; experience with AI-assisted design and prototyping workflows is required
• Excellent collaboration, communication, and presentation skills
• Familiarity with designing for AI/ML-driven products or systems (e.g., personalization, recommendations, generative AI, or conversational UX) is strongly preferred