Senior Director, Product Design

Join the future of news

We’re on a mission to deliver riveting storytelling for all of America. At The Washington Post, you’ll help reinvent news. Our work is driven by a deep investigative spirit and enhanced by innovation to bring audiences closer to the stories that matter most.

The Washington Post is powered by the passion and talent of our people. It takes all of us to reinvent news. Beyond our award-winning Newsroom and Opinions teams, we work across many departments, including Brand & Events, Communications, Customer Care, Engineering & Product, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Marketing & Advertising, Print Operations, and Sales.

The Washington Post is looking for a senior design leader with exceptional product judgment, a strong point of view about the future of digital experiences, and the ability to translate ambitious ideas into products that create meaningful value for customers and the business.

As a senior member of the Product organization, you will set the design vision for The Washington Post’s product portfolio and help define how millions of people discover, experience, and engage with our journalism. You will work with leaders across Product, Technology, Newsroom, Opinion, and business units to ensure design is a strategic driver of product direction, subscriber value, and growth.

This is a pivotal moment for The Post and the broader media industry. Artificial intelligence, changing consumer behaviors, platform disruption, and evolving expectations for digital products are reshaping how people find and interact with information. You will help The Post respond to these changes by creating experiences that are more useful, distinctive, intuitive, and essential to people’s daily lives.

Design is central to how we differentiate our products, build lasting relationships with audiences, and translate the quality and credibility of our journalism into experiences people value and trust.

• You are energized by the opportunity to define the future of a globally recognized digital product and shape how people experience high-quality journalism.
• You enjoy setting an ambitious long-term vision and building the organizational alignment and momentum needed to turn that vision into meaningful customer experiences.
• You see design as a strategic business capability and are motivated by using it to improve customer value, engagement, conversion, retention, and growth.
• You thrive at the intersection of product, technology, journalism, and business strategy and enjoy bringing different perspectives together around a shared customer experience.
• You care deeply about craft and believe enduring product quality comes from strong leaders, teams, systems, and standards.
• You are curious about how AI, personalization, and emerging interaction models will reshape digital experiences and want to help define what those changes mean for journalism.
• You want to build experiences that are distinctive, useful, and worthy of audiences’ time and trust.

• Sets the design vision and long-term strategy for The Washington Post’s product portfolio, establishing a distinctive and cohesive customer experience and driving sustained progress and iteration against that vision.
• Shapes product and business strategy with senior leaders across Product, Technology, Newsroom, Opinion, and business units, using design to advance audience growth, engagement, retention, and other strategic priorities.
• Drives the design strategy for premium subscriber experiences and products that convert new audiences into paying customers, ensuring customer needs, business objectives, and The Post’s journalistic mission inform product decisions.
• Leads the product…