Contract

Senior Product Designer

Care

The New York Times

The New York Times

10,001+ employees

Subscription-based digital and print journalism

Compensation Overview

$110 - $140/hr

+ Annual bonus + Restricted stock

New York, NY, USA

Hybrid

Three-day hybrid schedule is not specified; the role is based in the New York City office.

Category
UI/UX & Design (1)
Required Skills
Figma
A/B Testing
Product Design
Data Analysis

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Requirements
  • A portfolio of shipped work showcasing end-to-end designs for conversational artificial intelligence, chatbot, or customer support experiences.
  • At least 5 years of product design experience, with a focus on complex, interactive platforms, back-office tools, or systems design.
  • Hands-on expertise in conversation design and user experience writing for customer-facing flows.
  • Advanced proficiency in Figma and the ability to produce interaction prototypes, service blueprints, and detailed journey maps for engineering handoff.
  • Experience writing copy for customer-facing experiences.
Responsibilities
  • Collaborate with product management, engineering, operations, and data partners to shape product strategy for artificial-intelligence-assisted care experiences, clarifying problems, success metrics, and prioritization.
  • Design and iterate end-to-end conversational flows and user experiences for Care's artificial intelligence agent, Ada, and related tools, including delivery issue journeys, queue transparency, and escalation to human agents.
  • Create documentation, including user journeys, experience maps, blueprints, and wireframes, that aligns teams on how artificial intelligence and human agents work together across the end-to-end care experience.
  • Lead discovery and future-state exploration for artificial intelligence agents in the Care domain, translating research and secondary insights into future-state concepts and actionable roadmaps.
  • Use analytics, qualitative feedback, and experiment results to iterate on conversational flows and measure impact on Care metrics such as customer effort and contact containment.
  • Partner with engineers, product teams, and operations to deliver consistent flows across chat, phone, and other Care channels while balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
  • Contribute to team rituals such as critiques, reviews, and working sessions.
  • Mentor designers and cross-functional partners, including Care Operations and the customer experience team.
Desired Qualifications
  • Familiarity with conversation prototyping and experimentation tools such as Ada, Decagon, Sierra, or Retool.
  • Experience using data analytics and experimentation, including A/B testing, funnel analysis, and intent quality assurance, to iterate on support flows and drive impact on customer effort or containment metrics.
  • Ability to articulate design tradeoffs and system logic to non-design partners in Engineering, Product, and Operations.
  • Experience working in subscription, media, or high-growth environments that prioritize automation.

The New York Times provides digital and print news across politics, business, technology, culture, and more for a global audience. It earns revenue from recurring subscriptions for digital and print editions and from online advertising, including sponsored content. It enhances value with subscriber services like NYT Cooking and other offerings, delivered through a digital platform, newsletters, and mobile apps. Its goal is to deliver trusted information and insightful analysis at scale while expanding its digital reach and subscriber value.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

1850

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  • Q2 2026 revenue rose 11.2% to $762.5 million, with digital ads up 20.7%.
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6 month growth

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1 year growth

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2 year growth

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