Principal Product Designer, Yahoo Everywhere

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.

Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900 million people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love-from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming, and news-through trusted products, content, and technology that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform that helps businesses amplify growth and build meaningful connections across advertising, search, and media.

Yahoo Everywhere takes Yahoo products onto surfaces we do not own. We work with partners across three kinds of surfaces: OEMs, apps and digital surfaces. Yahoo Weather, News, Sports, Finance, and Games land on the devices people buy, inside the browsers and apps they already use, and on the screens that sit in the background of a room, in their car, or on their wrist.

Every deal is a design problem: how Yahoo shows up inside someone else's product, how our brand stays present, and how we add value and keep a direct line to the user.

We are seeking a principal product designer to lead design for Yahoo Everywhere. You will work alongside the business lead on the hunt for new surfaces and new partners, and you will be the final design decision maker for everything this team puts in front of a partner.

The role has two halves. The first is concept work: showing what Yahoo could look like in places nobody has asked for yet: on digital surfaces, within hardware, and on ambient screens . These concepts let a partner or an executive see the opportunity while the business case is still forming.

The second half is judgment. You decide which directions go in front of partners, you sign off on how Yahoo's identity travels onto someone else's surface, and you hold the line when brand prominence comes up for negotiation. You are in the room for deals and pitches, shaping the deal itself while it is still being written.

An executional designer runs the day-to-day production across active deals. Your time is used for concept work, deal shaping, and design decisions.

• Own design across three tracks: pitch work tied to live deals, partner implementation after a deal closes, and blue sky concepts about what "everywhere" can mean.
• Make the final call on design direction, and sign off against our identity pillars so our brand stays present and the direct line to the user survives every integration.
• Represent design in deal conversations, influencing the shape of a deal while it is still being formed.
• Listen to partner feedback and find creative ways to work through constraints to build the best experience for the user.
• Produce concept work that gives partners and executives something concrete to react to.
• Set calibration for the team. Read where a deal sits, tell the executional designer what that means for fidelity, and hand off the execution.
• Shape the partner-type playbooks for OEM, consumer platform, and carrier deals, defining what each one argues for.
• Partner with the design leads who own weather, finance, news, sports, and games so that what lands on a partner surface holds up against how each product actually works.
• Step into partner implementation when a partner pushes on something at the identity level.
• Build prototypes and high-fidelity work in Figma, Claude, and Cursor, integrating AI tooling throughout the process from ideation to execution.
• Grow the system over time, so every deal starts ahead of the last one and smaller deals become worth doing.

• 10+ years of experience designing consumer-facing digital products, with a track record of shaping product strategy and shipped experiences.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating strategic and systems-level leadership across end-to-end product experiences and shipped consumer products.
• Experience as the final design decision maker on a body of work, with specific examples of calls you made and the reasoning behind them.
• Experience designing for surfaces you do not control: partner integrations, embedded or white label products, OEM placements, or platform distribution.
• Concept and vision work in your portfolio, including speculative directions that moved a real business…