The New York Times is seeking a designer to join our newly formed team focused on artificial-intelligence initiatives in the newsroom. The team ensures The Times remains on the forefront of digital journalism by prototyping internal and reader-facing applications of generative A.I. and other machine-learning techniques. Our goal is to develop new forms of journalism, empowering reporters across the newsroom with new and useful tools, while establishing principles for the ethical use of these technologies.
As a core member of the team, the senior design editor will conduct user research to better understand problems faced by colleagues and readers that could be solved with machine learning. You will turn your findings into recommendations and design prototypes for features and products that could improve internal workflows, reporting capabilities, and how The Times is presented to readers. You will contribute to working prototypes of web applications and other interfaces.
The team, led by the editorial director for A.I. initiatives, will also include colleagues with a mix of engineering and editorial talent, acting as a kind of skunkworks team within the newsroom. Everyone on the team is expected to have some technical ability. Together, you will partner with other teams in the news, product, and technology groups to take the best ideas from prototypes to production.
You are an inveterate tinkerer, eager to experiment with new technologies and share your findings with others. We favor demos over memos, prototypes over concepts, collaboration over silos, and learning over knowing it all.
The annual base pay range for this role is between:
$140,000—$160,000 USD
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