Principal Product Designer, Yahoo News

Yahoo is a global technology company whose products include Yahoo News and other high-scale consumer experiences. Yahoo is seeking a Principal Product Designer to lead visual craft, interaction excellence, and high-fidelity prototyping across Yahoo News and related consumer surfaces while evolving design systems, leveraging generative AI tools, collaborating cross-functionally, and mentoring designers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design vision and interactive prototyping architecture across a broad, diverse portfolio of consumer surfaces, translating complex user needs and business strategies into coherent product experiences
• Craft visually distinctive, bespoke interaction patterns for high-profile cultural and editorially related moments, establishing creative direction and visual standards that elevate the Yahoo brand and product experience
• Drive the evolution of design standards, visual patterns, and interaction principles across Yahoo News and associated surfaces
• Move with velocity across multiple workstreams simultaneously, prioritizing quickly and maintaining high-quality output across a significant body of surface area
• Use AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex in combination with our design system to accelerate prototyping, visual exploration, and workflow efficiency
• Work upstream with design and product leadership to shape interaction direction and raise the quality bar across the portfolio
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Researchers, Product Managers, and Engineers to translate high-ambiguity concepts into user-centered solutions
• Partner with research teams to gather data-driven insights and validate interaction and usability decisions
• Proactively stay current on emerging AI design tools and methodologies, running experimentation pilots to streamline team systems, and advocating for responsible, high-impact AI adoption
• Mentor and develop junior designers, actively multiplying the team's overall impact by raising the standard for visual quality, prototyping rigor, and interaction fidelity
• Present design rationale to senior stakeholders, communicating the “why” behind design decisions with clarity and confidence

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience designing high-scale digital products across web and mobile platforms
• Proven experience leveraging and directing the usage of generative AI tools (such as Claude Code, Cursor or Codex) to construct, test, and optimize high-fidelity interactive prototypes
• Exceptional product design thinking, with deep expertise in typography, layout, visual systems, and brand application for consumer surfaces
• Demonstrated ability to operate in an AI-augmented workflow, showcasing judgment on when to utilize AI generation versus applying manual design craft
• Demonstrated ability to operate across a broad, diverse surface portfolio simultaneously, without sacrificing quality or velocity
• Exceptional communication and negotiation skills, with a track record of aligning and presenting to executive-level stakeholders
• Active experience evolving a shared design system, with a track record of going bespoke and beyond established patterns to raise the visual quality bar
• A portfolio that demonstrates both a highly developed AI-augmented design methodology and exemplary visual craft and interaction design
• Experience in the media, news, or high-scale consumer technology industries