Staff Product Designer, NAPP

Mission Overview & Responsibilities

The New York Times is looking for a Staff Product Designer with strong UX, product and editorial experience who uses prototyping to elucidate where AI adds value for our users.

The New A.I. Products and Platforms (NAPP) mission is a critical, company-wide initiative tasked with building the next generation of A.I.-powered products to accelerate The New York Times's essential subscription strategy.

As a Staff Product Designer you'll use editorial and design judgment to imagine and prototype AI-powered editorial experiences while upholding the highest levels of journalistic and product excellence.

You'll work with teams to uncover opportunities to deliver better experiences to our readers using A.I., across our bundle of connected products. You'll create and validate prototypes that meet users' informational needs and align with our brand aesthetic and values. You'll create clarity by building, showing your product and newsroom partners what's possible with A.I.

We value an environment of learning and collaboration. You'll play a leadership role to grow and support more junior team members. You'll help promote a "make to think" culture and champion emerging best practices around A.I.-enabled workflows.

Your role will combine elements of product design, product strategy, editorial sense, and engineering. This role is well suited for someone who is comfortable navigating ambiguity, brings curiosity and initiative to their work, and enjoys collaborating with subject matter experts across The Times.

This is a remote friendly position.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product teams across The Times to identify smart opportunities to integrate A.I. into their products and features.
• Imagine concepts for delivering new A.I.-powered experiences for NYT users.
• Use quantitative data and qualitative research to inform design decisions.
• Create clear prototypes of these concepts to validate desirability, feasibility, and usability.