Job Description
Senior Product Designer Yahoo Finance
United States of America – Remote
Full time
job requisition id JR0022397
The largest business and financial news site in the world, with unrivaled access to data, insights and original editorial content.
A Little About Us:
At Yahoo Finance, we believe that business news is for everyone — from Wall Street to Main Street. Yahoo Finance is the largest business and financial information and tools app+site in the world, with unrivaled access to data, insights, tools and up-to-the-minute financial news. Under a new leadership team, we are recommitted to building and revitalizing this financial OG and positioning it for the future. This role will have a huge impact as you will be contributing to efforts that will allow millions of Yahoo Finance users to make the best investing decisions and act on them. If you’re a consumer product leader and are passionate about finance or investing, this one’s for you!
Your Day at Yahoo Finance:
As a senior product designer, you collaborate with other product designers and cross functional partners to help define and execute the vision for new features/explorations that inspire others and that are recognized by the team as raising the bar for the product.
- Executes across all phases of the design process from conception to implementation to include (but not limited to) wireframing, prototyping, and visual design.
- Design lead for large projects or responsible for major parts of several projects that are deemed business critical.
- Implements innovative team practices that drive change and identify new opportunities for value creation.
- Acts as a thought leader in their cross functional group, demonstrates ability to implement forward thinking design.
- Leads Design vision and strategy for cross functional group.
- Builds relationships & collaborates with internal stakeholder leads (Product Management, Engineering etc) to ensure consistency with broader Product goals and company objective.
- Demonstrates strong understanding & implementation of internal design process.
- Leads their cross functional team in framing and providing thoughtful solutions to complex design problems.
Qualifications:
- Location Preference: Mountain View or surrounding areas – hybrid work environment
- 7+ professional experience, specifically as a Product Designer.
- Bachelor’s degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience.
- Mastery in UX software such as Figma etc.
- Design Portfolio demonstrating strong UX and visual design solutions, with an emphasis on identifying and meaningfully solving true user problems.
- Foundational understanding of HTML and CSS.
- Exceptional track record to execute on product design strategy, mentor designers, and partner with cross functional team members.
- Experience building world class product experiences, streamline workflows with continuous iteration and improvement.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to be a user experience design leader, including usability principles, user research methodology, testing techniques (A/B, Multi-Variant), design theory, and interaction design.
- Willingness to roll up your sleeve and get things done.
- Take smart risks and champion new ideas.
- Passionate about contributing and maintaining design systems
- Excellent communicator
- Skills such as data visualization, or copywriting a plus