Product Designer, Community, Yahoo Finance

Yahoo Finance is the world’s #1 finance destination, empowering investors with news, information, and tools to make financial decisions with confidence. Trusted by over 150M visitors globally each month, representing over $20 trillion dollars in investable assets, Yahoo Finance delivers high-quality real-time market data across desktop, mobile, and streaming platforms. With breaking news from thousands of sources, original editorial perspectives, objective analyst ratings and research, analytical charts and technical tools, personalized mobile alerts, and much more, Yahoo Finance equips investors with knowledge and insights to achieve financial freedom and greater prosperity.

A Little About Us:

At Yahoo Finance, we believe that business news is for everyone -- from Wall Street to Main Street. Yahoo Finance is the largest business and financial information and tools app+site in the world, with unrivaled access to data, insights, tools and up-to-the-minute financial news. Under a new leadership team, we are recommitted to building and revitalizing this financial OG and positioning it for the future. This role will have a huge impact as you will be spearheading efforts that will allow millions of Yahoo Finance users to make the best investing decisions and act on them. If you’re a consumer product leader and are passionate about finance or investing, this one's for you!

Your Day at Yahoo Finance:

As a Product Designer at Yahoo Finance, you will lead product design for a not-yet-released Yahoo Finance Community. You’ll collaborate with a talented and diverse team to envision and craft delightful and intuitive design experiences that resonate with our users. You’ll be involved in the product development cycle from start to finish—from strategy development to brainstorming, prototyping, and shipping innovative designs that set new standards for the product.

Day-to-day, you will:

• Oversee & execute across all phases of the design process from conception to implementation to include (but not limited to) wireframing, prototyping, and visual design.

• Lead multiple large-scale highly strategic projects that are deemed business critical.

• Develop and implement innovative team practices that drive change and identify new opportunities for value creation.

• Act as a thought leader among the department, providing a clear vision for the future of design and demonstrating ability to implement forward-thinking design. Builds relationships & collaborates with internal stakeholder leads (Product Management, Engineering etc) to ensure consistency with broader Product goals and company objectives.

• Demonstrate strong understanding & implementation of internal design process.

• Lead team in framing and providing thoughtful solutions to complex design problems.

• Demonstrate influence across all levels of the organization, mentoring other Individual Contributors and leaders.

Qualifications:

• Location Preference: San Francisco Bay Area - Hybrid work environment

• 5+ years professional experience, specifically as a Product Designer.

• Mastery in UX software such as Figma etc.

• Design Portfolio demonstrating strong UX and visual design solutions, with an emphasis on identifying and meaningfully solving true user problems.

• Foundational understanding of HTML and CSS.

• Exceptional track record to execute on product design strategy, mentor designers, and partner with cross functional team members.

• Experience building world class product experiences, streamline workflows with continuous iteration and improvement.

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to lead user experience design, including usability principles, user research methodology, testing techniques (A/B, Multi-Variant), design theory, and interaction design.

• Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience.

• Willingness to roll up your sleeve and get things done.

• Take smart risks and champion new ideas.

• Passionate about contributing and maintaining design systems

• Skills such as illustration, animation, data visualization, front-end programming, or copywriting a plus

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!

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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. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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