Senior Principal Product Designer - Core

Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with hundreds of millions of users. It’s the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. With its beautiful design and lightning fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever.

About us:

Yahoo Mail is the inbox for millions of people worldwide. From mobile apps to desktop, we help users stay organized and connected. With fast performance and intuitive tools, we’re making email more powerful and more delightful than ever.
 

The Core team is focused on the foundation of Yahoo Mail: the inbox experience, reading and writing flows, organizing messages, and finding what you need. We design intuitive, thoughtful experiences that help people get things done with ease and confidence. Our work impacts how millions of users interact with their inbox every day.
 

Who we’re looking for:

We’re looking for a Senior Principal Product Designer to join the Core team. In this role, you’ll drive high-impact initiatives that shape the future of Yahoo Mail’s foundational experiences. You’ll partner closely with cross-functional teams to evolve how people read, write, organize, and search — with a focus on quality, simplicity, and innovation.

This role is ideal for someone who brings deep expertise in product design, a strategic mindset, and a passion for elevating the craft. You’ll play a key role in mentoring others, influencing product direction, and ensuring the work we ship meets the highest standards of usability and polish.

Responsibilities:

Product Designers at Yahoo collaborate with partners to define the vision for new features, while owning and driving the craftsmanship of every interaction and visual design detail. Day-to-day, you will:

• Lead design for complex, cross-functional initiatives that impact millions of users

• Partner with PMs, engineers, researchers, and analysts to define problems and shape solutions

• Create and communicate high-quality user flows, wireframes, visuals, and prototypes

• Use data, research, and intuition to inform and refine your design decisions

• Participate in and facilitate critiques and team reviews with a strong point of view

• Influence and contribute to our design system to ensure consistency and scalability

• Help set and uphold the craft quality bar across the team

• Mentor and support designers across levels, contributing to team growth and development

• Advocate for the user and champion design thinking across the organization

About you:

You might be a great fit if you:

• Bring a user-centered mindset and strong product intuition to your work

• Have deep experience designing for both web and mobile products at scale

• Excel in visual and interaction design with attention to detail and clarity

• Are skilled at communicating your ideas clearly and influencing cross-functional partners

• Thrive in ambiguity and enjoy solving complex, systems-oriented problems

• Are proactive, collaborative, and unafraid to challenge assumptions to drive better outcomes

• Enjoy mentoring others and helping to shape team culture and craft standards

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience designing digital products, with a strong focus on consumer-facing experiences

• A portfolio that demonstrates exceptional product thinking, visual craft, and end-to-end process

• Deep experience working with design systems and multi-platform environments

• Comfortable navigating cross-functional partnerships and driving alignment at all levels

• Bonus: Experience with motion design, prototyping, or front-end tools

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace strengthens Yahoo and deepens our relationships. When you support everyone to be their best selves, they spark discovery, innovation and creativity. Among other efforts, our 11 employee resource groups (ERGs) enhance a culture of belonging with programs, events and fellowship that help educate, support and create a workplace where all feel welcome.

The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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