Senior Product Designer, Universal Navigation System
Yahoo
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $128,250 - $266,875 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead the design of Yahoo’s universal navigation experiences across products and platforms, ensuring clarity, consistency, and scalability.
- Design navigation systems that support a wide range of user intents while balancing business priorities and long-term platform needs.
- Translate complex information architectures into intuitive, elegant interfaces with strong visual hierarchy and interaction design.
- Collaborate with researchers to identify when research is needed, interpret findings, and synthesize patterns across qualitative and quantitative data.
- Use AI-powered tools and workflows to rapidly explore concepts, generate alternatives, and create interactive prototypes throughout the design process.
- Prototype early and often—at low, medium, and high fidelity—to test assumptions, validate behaviors, and communicate design intent.
- Advocate for accessibility, usability, and inclusive design across all navigation patterns and interactions.
- Collaborate closely with product, engineering, content, analytics, and design partners to deliver production-ready solutions at scale.
- Work alongside Senior Principal Product Designers on cross-cutting initiatives where navigation plays a critical role, aligning system-level decisions across teams.
- Present work clearly and confidently to stakeholders, articulating rationale, tradeoffs, and decision-making under ambiguity.
- Contribute to design critiques and help evolve shared navigation patterns, components, and systems across Yahoo.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Design, HCI, Visual Communication, or a related field.
- 4+ years of experience designing digital products, preferably within large-scale platforms, content-rich ecosystems, or navigation frameworks.
- A portfolio demonstrating strong systems thinking, excellent visual and interaction design craft, and polished execution.
- Experience working on cross-functional product teams and shipping work at scale.
- Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and accessibility standards.
- Proficiency in Figma and modern prototyping tools; experience with AI-assisted design and prototyping workflows is required.
- Excellent collaboration, communication, and presentation skills.
Benefits
- healthcare
- a great 401k
- backup childcare
- education stipends
- much (much) more
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationpresentationadvocacysynthesisproblem-solvingstakeholder engagementdecision-makingcreativityadaptability