Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Yahoo is a leading company that helps millions achieve their online goals through a portfolio of iconic products. They are seeking a Principal Product Designer for Yahoo Home to set the visual and interaction language for one of the most-visited destinations on the web, partnering with various teams to enhance user experience and engagement.
Responsibilities
- Own the Yahoo Home experience design. Define the cross-platform design language, interaction patterns, and component system for Home on mobile and desktop. Hold the bar for craft on every pixel that ships
- Design the bridge to community. Partner closely with the Community team to weave comments, reactions, perspectives, and ranked voices into the Home reading experience. Design the moments where a reader becomes a participant
- Balance feed and story. Hold the tension between habit-forming surfaces (the feed, the rail, the personalization layer) and action-oriented destinations (article reading, community participation, contextual depth). Know when to show more and when to get out of the way
- Prototype, don't just spec. Use AI-native tools like Figma Make, Claude, or Cursor to compress the time from idea to interactive artifact. Bring working prototypes to design reviews, not static frames
- Build Personalization that’s Habit-forming. Develop an engaging experience by leveraging AI-driven interest detection and natural language inputs to make surfaces feel personalized, and design the UI patterns that build user trust and transparency around algorithmic recommendations
- Set the design culture. Raise the quality bar across the broader Home and Community design surface area by establishing scalable design frameworks, running critiques, and mentoring other designers (IC3/IC4). You'll lead through your craft
- Sweat the cross-platform details. Design fluently for iOS, Android, and web. Know when to converge and when to diverge across platforms. Hold the line on consistency without flattening platform identity
- Ship fast on high-stakes surfaces. Navigate existing business constraints (SEO, ad units, legacy components) while introducing genuinely new patterns. Thread the needle between stability and startup-speed iteration
Skills
- 10+ years in product design, with significant time on consumer products at scale
- Experience shipping on platforms with millions of daily users
- Knowledge of memes and internet vibe shifts is instinctive
- Track record of building side projects and functional prototypes using AI agents
- Strong opinions on why products like Superhuman or Threads succeed or fail
- Design natively for mobile and desktop, not as an afterthought
- Experience building or meaningfully extending a design system
- Thrive in the early stages of a 0→1 build where the path isn't yet paved
Benefits
- Incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions
- Healthcare
- A great 401k
- Backup childcare
- Education stipends
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