Principal Product Designer, Yahoo News

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A Little About Us
Yahoo reaches hundreds of millions of people globally through iconic products like Yahoo.com and Yahoo News. We are at the forefront of a generational shift in how information is consumed. By blending our world-class editorial expertise with cutting-edge AI, we are redefining digital habits. Our team is a high-velocity lab where designers, engineers, and product leaders build the next generation of agentic and generative consumer experiences.
 

About the Role
 

As a Principal Product Designer, you will lead visual craft and interaction excellence across Yahoo's most critical consumer surfaces. You will create high-fidelity prototypes at speed, translating concepts into polished, interaction-rich models that demonstrate usability, user flows, and visual delight. You will work across a broad and diverse set of surfaces: Y100/News on the web, Breaking News, Scout modules, Topic pages, Movies, Publisher profiles, onboarding and subscriptions.
This is a role for an expert systems-thinking practitioner who excels in an AI-augmented environment. You will leverage generative AI tools to bypass manual execution constraints, establish scalable prototyping standards, and play a central role in evolving Yahoo’s design systems and visual standards across multiple cross-functional teams.
 

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.
   

Basic Qualifications

• 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.
   

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

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The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

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The compensation for this position ranges from $143,625.00 - $299,375.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience.The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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