Senior Product Designer
About the role
This role is on the New York Magazine dedicated Product team, which is responsible for the customer touchpoints that pertain to all its digital products. This role will also partner directly with Consumer Revenue, Editorial and other teams when required.
The Product team analyzes and creates the platforms that connect New York Magazine’s content with its audiences. The Product Design team helps ensure that products are engaging, useful, and beautiful.
Responsibilities
- Generate digital experiences and interfaces for consumer revenue, subscriptions, and adjacent products.
- Design and execute projects across the entire product lifecycle, from concepts to multi-platform product launches.
- Present solutions to stakeholders, frame design decisions, articulate tradeoffs, advocate for readers and subscribers, and drive business objectives.
- Solve complex design problems while synthesizing multiple inputs.
- Evaluate, iterate, and optimize existing product performance.
- Contribute to scalable pattern libraries and design systems across platforms and touchpoints.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, data, consumer revenue, and editorial stakeholders on product strategy and execution.
- Participate in design reviews and help improve the broader design team’s culture and process. Reports to the VP of Product Design, NYmag.com.
Basic qualifications
- Degree or equivalent practical experience in Product Design, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, or a related field.
- 5+ years of professional experience and a portfolio showing end-to-end responsive web and app experiences.
- 5+ years creating complex typography systems, visual hierarchies, and scalable design systems.
- 3+ years designing for digital media, editorial, subscription, or commerce platforms.
- Experience translating multiple brand identities across digital platforms; strong attention to detail and design iteration.
- Ability to own projects end-to-end and collaborate effectively.
- Understanding of modern digital technologies, information architecture, and accessibility standards.
- 3–5 years of Figma experience, including prototyping, component libraries, and design systems; 1–2 years of experience using vibecoding to ship small features and build prototypes.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience designing high-converting subscription funnels or promotional messaging systems.
- Ability or willingness to integrate AI tools into design and development processes.
- Experience with editorial production workflows, digital news publishing, user research, analytics, and measuring post-launch impact.
- Enthusiasm for journalism, New York Magazine’s editorial mission, and its design legacy.
Pay range: $122,500–$132,500 USD. Final pay depends on skills and experience.
Vox Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides reasonable accommodations. Recruitment messages will only come from @voxmedia.com addresses.
