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New York Times Staff Design Technologist (iOS, Android), Subscriber Experience in New York, New York
The mission (https://www.nytco.com/company/mission-and-values/) of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for.
Mission Overview & Responsibilities :
The Subscriber Experience teams at The New York Times are focused on guiding subscribers to discover and adopt all that The Times has to offer—from the centrality of our news report to our full product bundle—by building meaningful pathways and experiences that create exploration, habituation, and engagement. We are looking for an experienced design technologist with experience with design and technology to help shape the future of The New York Times app experience.
This is an individual contributor role reporting to the VP of Product Design for Subscriber Experience. This is a remote-friendly position based in our New York City office.
As a Staff Design Technologist, you will be a force multiplier, driving higher quality outcomes from your colleagues. You’ll collaborate with diverse teams to identify opportunities for enhancing our product experience, designing solutions that align with user needs, team goals, and our newsroom strategy.
We value an environment of learning and collaboration. You'll lend your skills and expertise to grow and support more junior design team members, promote a rich prototyping culture, and attend regular design rituals where you'll receive and provide critiques, and identify opportunities for consistency across the function.
Responsibilities:
Develop working prototypes to explore new features, content strategies, and interaction models, ensuring the right questions are addressed and distinct user needs are met.
Facilitate decision-making and discussions by creating tangible artifacts that bring UX solutions to life, focusing on interaction and motion.
Partner with designers and researchers to uncover user challenges and use these insights to inform your UX decisions.
Ensure a seamless connection between design and engineering by maintaining design/UX visions through code, applying technical architecture and data to create realistic user and journalistic scenarios in prototypes.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of design standards, guidelines, and reusable components.
Participate in design rituals and the hiring process for design roles within the product design team.
Promote a culture of innovation by inspiring and mentoring teammates, enhancing processes, and improving documentation through prototyping activities.
Basic Qualifications:
7+ years of experience as a design technologist, engineer, or UX designer with recent experience focused on native app UX
Experience with modern iOS (SwiftUI) or Android (Jetpack Compose) user interface frameworks
A portfolio of work that shows understanding user-centered design principles and showcases your design process
Experience working with data and qualitative research teams to inform product and UX decisions
Experience gaining agreement through use of design or prototyping artifacts
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience breaking down big challenges into smaller decisions framed as trade-offs (e.g. time vs. scope)
Experience guiding impactful product brainstorming and leading discussions
Experience designing native products centered around user behavior and nuances that encourage positive engagement
Basic awareness of accessibility principles with a commitment to further learning
REQ-016740
LI-Remote
The annual base pay range for this role is between:
$160,000 — $180,000 USD
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