Senior Product Designer - Mail Commerce

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.

Senior Product Designer - Mail Commerce

About us

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.
 

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to lead the evolution of our commerce strategy on Mail. This role will focus on designing products that drive conversion and deliver meaningful utilities to our users while also contributing to a highly targeted, premium ad product. Your expertise in user-centered design and commerce will help us redefine how we connect with our users and monetize our platform through innovative, value-driven solutions.

Who we’re looking for

We are looking for a passionate product designer with vision, creativity, and a savvy for both the aesthetic and structural aspects of UX design to collaborate with designers and partners on Yahoo experiences across desktop, mobile web, iOS, and Android. 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:

• 5+ years of experience in user experience, product, or relevant design fields.

• Strong user interface and visual design skills.

• Spearhead the design strategy, focusing on delivering cohesive and intuitive user experiences through iterative design processes and collaboration.

• Comfortable observing and experimenting with customer behavior to scale improvements.

• Collaborate effectively with product managers, engineers, data analysts, and business owners to identify opportunities and define design goals aligned with business objectives.

• Partner closely with user research and usability testing to gather insights and validate design decisions, ensuring a user-centric approach in all experiments.

• Create high-fidelity design deliverables, including wireframes, prototypes, and user flows, to communicate design intent and functionality effectively.

• Iterate on designs based on feedback from stakeholders, user testing, and performance metrics to continuously improve and optimize user experiences.

• Champion user-centric design principles and methodologies to ground designs in data and user insights.

• Act as a voice for our users, advocating for solving user problems effectively.

• Partner closely with product and engineering teams to drive innovation and push the boundaries of what’s possible.

• Adapt quickly between high-level strategic thinking and evaluating detailed research, interaction, and design execution.

• Demonstrate strong storytelling skills to drive alignment and influence across teams.

• Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging design patterns, and UX best practices to infuse innovative and cutting-edge solutions into our products.

• Collaborate with the marketing team to ensure brand consistency and a seamless transition from acquisition channels to the product experience.

• Mentor, guide, and influence other designers on the team, providing feedback with emotional intelligence to teammates and cross-functional partners.

• Own project priorities and the squad roadmap, maintaining flexibility to support the team as needs evolve.
   

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 comprehensive 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 collaborators;

• 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 and outcomes;

• Contributes to the design community both inside your company and beyond; and

• Desires and takes action to grow professional skills.
   

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability in digital product design for web and mobile software.

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

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

• Proficiency in software to build design concepts, prototypes, assets and specifications.

• Skills such as illustration, photography, animation, data visualization, conducting user interviews, front-end programming or data science are a plus!
   

Even better

• Experience with major product evolution or expansion (e.g., redesigns, theming, modes, platforms, or accessibility/internationalization).

• Prior experience designing for consumer apps.

• Ability to write code for prototyping, documentation, or infrastructure.

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.

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.

At Yahoo, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion (www.yahooinc.com/diversity/) page to learn more.

The compensation for this position ranges from $128,250.00 - $266,875.00/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, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.

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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