Principal Product Designer, Yahoo News

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

A Little About Us Yahoo reaches hundreds of millions of people globally through iconic products like  and Yahoo News. We are at the forefront of a generational shift in how information is consumed. By blending our world-class editorial expertise with cutting-edge AI, we are redefining digital habits. Our team is a high-velocity lab where designers, engineers, and product leaders build the next generation of agentic and generative consumer experiences.

As a Principal Product Designer, you will lead visual craft and interaction excellence across Yahoo's most critical consumer surfaces. You will create high-fidelity prototypes at speed, translating concepts into polished, interaction-rich models that demonstrate usability, user flows, and visual delight. You will work across a broad and diverse set of surfaces: Y100/News on the web, Breaking News, Scout modules, Topic pages, Movies, Publisher profiles, onboarding and subscriptions.

This is a role for an expert systems-thinking practitioner who excels in an AI-augmented environment. You will leverage generative AI tools to bypass manual execution constraints, establish scalable prototyping standards, and play a central role in evolving Yahoo’s design systems and visual standards across multiple cross-functional teams. You will use AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex in combination with our design system to accelerate prototyping, visual exploration, and workflow efficiency.

Work upstream with design and product leadership to shape interaction direction and raise the quality bar across the portfolio. Collaborate cross-functionally with Researchers, Product Managers, and Engineers to translate high-ambiguity concepts into user-centered solutions. Partner with research teams to gather data-driven insights and validate interaction and usability decisions. Proactively stay current on emerging AI design tools and methodologies, running experimentation pilots to streamline team systems, and advocating for responsible, high-impact AI adoption.

Mentor and develop junior designers, actively multiplying the team's overall impact by raising the standard for visual quality, prototyping rigor, and interaction fidelity. Present design rationale to senior stakeholders, communicating the “why” behind design decisions with clarity and confidence.

• Lead the design vision and interactive prototyping architecture across a broad, diverse portfolio of consumer surfaces, translating complex user needs and business strategies into coherent product experiences.
• Craft visually distinctive, bespoke interaction patterns for high-profile cultural and editorially related moments, establishing creative direction and visual standards that elevate the Yahoo brand and product experience.
• Drive the evolution of design standards, visual patterns, and interaction principles across Yahoo News and associated surfaces.
• Move with velocity across multiple work streams simultaneously, prioritizing quickly and maintaining high-quality output across a significant body of surface area.
• Use AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex in combination with our design system to accelerate prototyping, visual exploration, and workflow efficiency.
• Work upstream with design and product leadership to shape interaction direction and raise the quality bar across the portfolio.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Researchers, Product Managers, and Engineers to translate high-ambiguity…