Senior Principal Product Designer, Yahoo Homepage

Yahoo is seeking a Senior Principal Product Designer to join the Yahoo News team, focusing on high-impact initiatives for Yahoo News and Yahoo.com. This role involves leading end-to-end product design, delivering intuitive and visually stunning experiences, and collaborating with cross-functional teams and senior leadership. The designer will set high standards for design quality, obsess over details, and influence multiple surfaces across News, contributing to the Yahoo OS design system.

Must Have

• Lead end-to-end product design of the Yahoo homepage and related content feed experiences.
• Deliver intuitive, elegant solutions that reflect a deep understanding of user needs, business goals, and brand expression.
• Set a high bar for design quality; obsess over details, from typography and spacing to motion and micro interactions.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, research, and content to turn ideas into polished, user-centered solutions.
• Work upstream with company leadership to shape design direction on strategically critical initiatives.
• Partner with researchers to gather insights and iterate based on evidence and feedback.
• Present design work with clarity, confidence, and a strong rationale grounded in user and business goals.
• Guide feedback discussions and apply input in ways that strengthen the work without compromising vision.
• Mentor other designers and foster a culture of creative excellence and continuous refinement.
• Master of product design thinking, visual craft, with deep expertise in layout, typography, color, and brand application.
• Experienced in designing across a range of surfaces—including native mobile and web.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and confident in building new design directions from the ground up (0 → 1).
• Skilled communicator who can present, defend, and iterate on design work at all levels of the organization.
• Effective in cross-functional collaboration, with the ability to influence.
• Able to adapt, learn and pivot quickly based on feedback, research and testing.
• Proficient with Figma and prototyping tools, to explore, refine, and present design ideas.
• Experience designing for Desktop, Mobile platforms, with a strong understanding of platform guidelines and best practices.
• 10+ years of experience designing digital products, with a strong emphasis on visual design.
• A portfolio that demonstrates exceptional product thinking, visual craft, and experience designing for desktop and mobile.
• Deep experience working with design systems and multi-platform environments.
• Comfortable navigating cross-functional partnerships and driving alignment at all levels.

Good to Have

• Curious about emerging tools and technologies, particularly AI’s role in design workflows.
• Experience with motion design, prototyping, or front-end tools.

Perks & Benefits

• flexible hybrid work options
• healthcare
• 401k
• backup childcare
• education stipends

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 trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people around the world, empowering them to achieve their goals online through a portfolio of iconic, beloved products.

We’re looking for a visually driven detail-obsessed Senior Principal Product Designer to join the Yahoo News team. In this role, you’ll drive high-impact initiatives that shape the future of Yahoo News and one of its core surfaces, Yahoo.com.

You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams—including Researchers, Visual Designers, Product Managers, Engineers, and Content Designers—as well as Senior Leadership. Your focus will be on delivering intuitive and visually stunning experiences that reflect Yahoo’s design excellence, product values and pushes the boundaries on how people can consume and interact with content. You’ll partner directly with design leadership and business stakeholders and your work will influence multiple surfaces across News and help shape our Yahoo OS design system.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end product design of the Yahoo homepage and related content feed experiences
• Deliver intuitive, elegant solutions that reflect a deep understanding of user needs, business goals, and brand expression.
• Set a high bar for design quality; obsess over details, from typography and spacing to motion and micro interactions.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, research, and content to turn ideas into polished, user-centered solutions.
• Work upstream with company leadership to shape design direction on strategically critical initiatives.
• Partner with researchers to gather insights and iterate based on evidence and feedback.
• Present design work with clarity, confidence, and a strong rationale grounded in user and business goals.
• Guide feedback discussions and apply input in ways that strengthen the work without compromising vision.
• Mentor other designers and foster a culture of creative excellence and continuous refinement.

Who You Are

• A master of product design thinking, visual craft, with deep expertise in layout, typography, color, and brand application.
• Experienced in designing across a range of surfaces—including native mobile and web.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and confident in building new design directions from the ground up (0 → 1).
• A skilled communicator who can present, defend, and iterate on design work at all levels of the organization.
• Effective in cross-functional collaboration, with the ability to influence.
• Able to adapt, learn and pivot quickly based on feedback, research and testing.
• Curious about emerging tools and technologies, particularly AI’s role in design workflows.
• Proficient with Figma and prototyping tools, to explore, refine, and present design ideas.

Qualifications

• Experience designing for Desktop, Mobile platforms, with a strong understanding of platform guidelines and best practices.
• 10+ years of experience designing digital products, with a strong emphasis on visual design.
• A portfolio that demonstrates exceptional product thinking, visual craft, and experience designing for desktop and mobile
• 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!

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The compensation for this position ranges from $160,965.00 - $349,885.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience.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.