Senior Product Designer, Games

Location: Hybrid role based in the New York City headquarters, with onsite work expected 3+ days per week.

Annual base salary: $120,000–$145,000 USD, plus eligibility for variable pay such as an annual bonus and restricted stock.

Company

hirify.global is part of The New York Times, an independent journalism organization focused on helping people understand the world.

What you will do

• Partner with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teams on strategy, discovery, audience needs, and opportunities across Games products.
• Lead design exploration, generate divergent solutions, define approaches, and establish requirements.
• Prototype and validate concepts through user testing, present rationale, and build alignment around decisions.
• Translate concepts into production-ready flows, mocks, screens, and specifications while collaborating on implementation tradeoffs and shipped experiences.
• Contribute to Figma libraries, shared design systems, component-library documentation, and accessible brand-consistent experiences across web and apps.
• Facilitate discovery sessions, contribute to design rituals, mentor teammates, and improve processes and documentation.

Requirements

• 4+ years of design experience working within cross-functional teams.
• A portfolio demonstrating design thinking and finished design work.
• Experience building, maintaining, and applying design systems in environments with legacy UI or multiple parallel component libraries.
• Fluency in UX best practices for responsive web and mobile experiences.
• Knowledge of usability and accessible, inclusive design, including typography scales, contrast, motion, and semantics.
• Proficiency in Figma and Rive or equivalent software.

Nice to have

• Experience contributing to design systems across web and native apps.
• Experience partnering with platform or infrastructure teams on foundational refactors or component-library migrations.
• Experience shaping design practices such as critiques, documentation, and templates; facilitating stakeholder discovery; and aligning design intent with implementation through design tokens, component APIs, and specifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts, and a company-matching 401(k) plan.
• Employee stock purchase plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, and paid parental leave.
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.
• Commitment to independent, reliable, and high-quality journalism and an inclusive workforce.

Hiring process

• Submit your own work and do not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process.
• Engineering-specific GenAI tool permissions, if applicable, will be provided for the technical assessment.