Senior Product Designer II

Location: New York, NY

Salary: $122,500–$132,500 USD base pay annually

Company

Vox Media develops digital media products and platforms, including New York Magazine’s digital experiences.

What you will do

• Generate digital experiences and interfaces for consumer revenue, subscriptions, and adjacent products.
• Design and execute projects across the full product lifecycle, from concepts through multi-platform launches.
• Present solutions to stakeholders, explain design decisions and tradeoffs, and balance reader, subscriber, and business needs.
• Solve complex design problems and evaluate, iterate, and optimize existing product performance.
• Contribute to scalable pattern libraries and design systems supporting multiple brand identities across platforms.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, data, consumer revenue, and editorial stakeholders on product strategy and execution.

Requirements

• Degree in Product Design, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience with a portfolio showing end-to-end responsive web and app experiences.
• 5+ years creating complex typography systems, visual hierarchies, and scalable design systems.
• 3+ years designing for digital media, editorial, subscription, or commerce platforms.
• Success translating multiple brand identities across several digital platforms and touchpoints.
• Meticulous attention to detail, enthusiasm for design iteration, autonomy in owning projects end-to-end, and effective team collaboration.
• Solid understanding of modern digital technologies, information architecture, and accessibility standards.
• 3–5 years of experience working in Figma, including prototyping, component libraries, and design systems.
• 1–2 years of experience vibecoding to ship small features and build working prototypes.

Nice to have

• Experience designing high-converting subscription funnels or promotional messaging systems.
• Ability or willingness to integrate AI tools into the design and development process.
• Experience with editorial production workflows and digital news publishing environments.
• Experience using user research and analytics to validate design decisions and measure post-launch impact.
• Enthusiasm for journalism, New York Magazine’s editorial mission, and its design legacy.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work with engineering, product, data, consumer revenue, and editorial stakeholders.
• Participation in design rituals, constructive feedback, and initiatives to strengthen design culture and process.
• Inclusive environment with commitments to diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and reasonable application accommodations.
• Equal opportunity employment and consideration under applicable fair-chance laws.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed by the recruiting team, which will contact candidates only from @voxmedia.com email addresses.
• Accommodation requests during the application process can be submitted to the recruiting team.