**Job Description**The New York Times is looking for Senior Product Designers to create first-in-class tools that help our teams understand and interpret quantitative data to make crucial decisions.Our internal tool landscape has grown organically as The Times has shifted to a digital-first subscription business, and we’ve made it a priority to design our toolset with more intent and care. As a member of a cross-disciplinary team, you’ll address immediate design needs and identify, document and strategize for longer term opportunities. You’ll use lightweight research methods to evaluate how internal users interpret quantitative insights about our audiences and performance of our products. You’ll identify primary workflows, pain points and user errors. With your product and engineering partners, you’ll design the highest priority improvements to these workflows and create data visualizations that better help people make informed, strategic decisions. You’ll also document longer term opportunities, like capturing the need for UI patterns or process changes.Someone who is enthusiastic about data literacy, can interpret quantitative data sets and prototype data visualizations will thrive and make a significant impact in this environment. You’ll join and have the support of a group of product designers focused on internal tools and platforms.We have multiple roles across the organization, including in the:Advertising Mission. This group builds premium, privacy-leading ad experiences for our readers that also comprise performant solutions for advertisers. This designer will leverage a new set of proprietary data insights to design a suite of proprietary tools for sales planners, Brand teams, advertising clients and more.Data Platforms Mission. This group builds interfaces that are used across the company to explore and analyze data. This designer will create and implement a vision for intuitive user experience design and a clear design language for charts, graphs and other data visualizations.**Responsibilities**+ Support high-level product strategy, ensuring we’re asking the right questions and solving for identified user needs.+ Initiate and conduct internal user research with your team to identify pain points and surface opportunities for improvement.+ Match data sets to appropriate data visualization types.+ Prototype data visualizations and validate utility of these visualizations with internal users.+ Shape feature implementation by providing a user-centered perspective to the team’s solution.+ Create production-ready design deliverables.+ Work with engineers to ensure the visual quality of what we release.+ Communicate the progress and outcome of your work to your teammates and peers.**Basic Qualifications**+ 3+ years of relevant experience+ A portfolio of work that showcases your thought process along with finished design work. Applications without portfolios will not be considered.+ Proficiency in Sketch, Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, or equivalent design tools**Preferred Qualifications**You:+ use quantitative data and qualitative research to inform product and design decisions+ translate quantitative data into appropriate visualizations+ communicate design decisions to a variety of audiences+ value collaboration and communication+ demonstrate visual and typographic sensibilities+ break down big challenges into smaller decisions framed as trade-offs (e.g. time vs. scope)+ understand the constraints of technologies used to build modern digital experiences+ have enthusiasm for the mission of The New York Times#LI-AM1**The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.****The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The New York Times Company will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local “Fair Chance” laws.****Help shape the future of The New York Times****Whether it’s bringing new truths to light through reporting, optimizing products and formats to deliver a world-class digital and app experience, or analyzing data to better understand how we can best serve our readers, Times employees are part of a growing, unified team that is driven to build the best destination for journalism in the world.****That’s always been the case, but it is especially so today. In a time of uncertainty we’ve provided information and guidance to help readers navigate daily life – whether it’s understanding health risks or getting advice on staying sane and productive at home.** **This would not be possible without our** **journalists, data scientists, marketers, designers, engineers, project managers and many, many more.****Home to world-class talent****To create journalism and supporting products that stand apart, we must recruit the finest talent in the world. Journalists, data designers, videographers, agile marketers, art directors, and many others, we’re looking for people at all stages of their careers to bring different perspectives and practices to our teams. Together, we can make our journalism more insightful, meaningful and essential to the daily lives and understanding of people around the world.****Employee-driven benefits****If you see a job opening here that might be a good fit for you, we encourage you to apply. We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision plans for employees and their families, health and wellness programs, a 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation, paid parental leave and much more.****If you are an active employee at The New York Times or any affiliates, please do not apply here. Go to the Career Worklet on your Workday home page and View “Find Internal Jobs”. Thank you!**
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