Senior Product Designer, Yahoo Search

We are looking for a talented and experienced Senior Product designer with vision, creativity, and a high acumen for both the aesthetic and structural aspects of UX design to join the Yahoo Search design team. You will help us innovate on search experiences creating thoughtful experiences that are dynamic and deliver on user intents. The ideal candidate excels in a collaborative work environment and is able to digest and synthesize short and long term business needs and product goals.

Responsibilities

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

• Turn broad, ambiguous user and business challenges into clear, valuable and delightful solutions;

• Connect user research and data insights to design decisions at every stage of development;

• Incorporate best practices across multiple platforms and devices;

• Participate in and provide feedback feedback with humor, grace and empathy to teammates and cross-functional partners.

About you

You're likely to succeed in this roll, if you are someone who:

• Draws on all aspects of product design-information architecture, multi-step flows, motion-to create holistic experiences;

• Delivers consistent, polished and balanced layouts, through typography, color and visual hierarchy;

• Uses prototypes as a foundational piece of your design process both to identify appropriate solutions and influence stakeholders;

• Solves user problems in creative ways that go beyond obvious, expected solutions;

• Demonstrates high emotional intelligence when interacting with teammates and other co-workers;

• Presents designs clearly and confidently to facilitate useful feedback while shifting approach based on the audience and desired outcome;

• Takes initiative and accountability for timelines, deliverables and outcomes;

• Desires and takes action to grow professional skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in digital product design for web and mobile software.

• Portfolio that demonstrates expertise in visual design, interaction design, prototyping and product thinking.

• Demonstrated history of leading a user-centered design process from end-to-end.

• Proficiency in Figma to create design concepts, prototypes, assets and specifications.

• Prior experience working on search products a plus, but not a requirement.

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 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 () or call 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

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Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don't require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you'll be given notice to make arrangements.

If you're curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

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