Principal Product Designer, Innovation & Growth

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

Yahoo reaches hundreds of millions of people globally through iconic products like Yahoo.com and Yahoo News. But the ways people consume information are changing rapidly — AI, generative content, and agentic interfaces are redefining habits and expectations.

Yahoo is seeking a Principal Product Designer who is deeply fluent in applying AI within product development to create new consumer experiences across web and mobile platforms. You will focus on translating emerging technologies into intuitive, high-quality products, rapidly prototyping concepts, and shaping scalable design directions for AI-driven features across Yahoo News and Yahoo.com.

This role is ideal for someone who excels at zero-to-one product design, thrives in ambiguity, collaborates effectively across disciplines, and can move seamlessly from early concept exploration to polished, production-ready solutions.

We believe Yahoo can lead this shift by pioneering new AI-powered products and experiences that utilize our strong editorial and curation teams alongside our extensive journalism network to inform and entertain our audience. We believe a blend of AI-enabled tools and expert humans in the loop will give people the best information experiences in the noise of the modern digital world.

Working closely with cross-functional teams (Researchers, Visual Designers, Product Managers, Engineers, and Content Designers) as well as our Director of AI Products you will leverage emerging technologies to design zero-to-one products that transform how users interact with Yahoo News and Yahoo.com. You will explore, prototype, and validate the next generation of AI experiences — from content generation to agentic companions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end product design of AI led consumer experiences.

• Deliver intuitive, AI powered solutions that reflect a deep understanding of user needs, business goals, and brand expression.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, research, and content to turn ideas into polished, user-centered solutions.

• Work upstream with company leadership to shape design direction on how AI can support strategically critical initiatives.

• Partner with researchers to gather insights and iterate based on evidence and feedback.

• Present design work with clarity, confidence, and a strong rationale grounded in user and business goals.

• Guide workshops and internal discussions on the application of integrated AI design processes and tooling

• Mentor other designers and foster a culture of AI augmented design excellence and continuous refinement.
 

Who You Are:

• Highly proficient with emerging AI tools and technologies, particularly within design workflows to prototype, explore, refine, and present ideas.

• Ability to push beyond standard patterns and expectations, using AI as a lever to unlock new growth opportunities.

• Comfortable with ambiguity and confident in building new design directions from the ground up (0 → 1).

• A master of product design thinking, visual craft, with deep expertise in layout, typography, color, and brand application.

• Experienced in designing across a range of surfaces, including native mobile and web.

• A skilled communicator who can present, defend, and iterate on design work at all levels of the organization.

• Effective in cross-functional collaboration, with the ability to influence.

• Able to adapt, learn and pivot quickly based on feedback, research and testing.
 

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of leveraging AI in your core workflow

• 8+ years of experience designing digital products, across web and mobile platforms

• A portfolio showcasing elegant, high-quality design across product experiences that have been built using AI.

• Deep understanding of user-centered design principles and the ability to balance brand with usability.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience presenting to executive stakeholders.
 

Please include a link to your portfolio (and password, if applicable) with your application.

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.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

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.

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The compensation for this position ranges from $143,625.00 - $299,375.00/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. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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