at Yahoo! Inc. in Champaign, Illinois, United States
Job Description
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 contributing to 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 senior product designer, you collaborate with other product designers and cross functional partners to help define and execute the vision for new features/explorations that inspire others and that are recognized by the team as raising the bar for the product.
- Executes across all phases of the design process from conception to implementation to include (but not limited to) wireframing, prototyping, and visual design.
- Design lead for large projects or responsible for major parts of several projects that are deemed business critical.
- Implements innovative team practices that drive change and identify new opportunities for value creation.
- Acts as a thought leader in their cross functional group, demonstrates ability to implement forward thinking design.
- Leads Design vision and strategy for cross functional group.
- Builds relationships & collaborates with internal stakeholder leads (Product Management, Engineering etc) to ensure consistency with broader Product goals and company objective.
- Demonstrates strong understanding & implementation of internal design process.
- Leads their cross functional team in framing and providing thoughtful solutions to complex design problems.
Qualifications:
- Location Preference: Mountain View or surrounding areas - hybrid work environment
- 7+ professional experience, specifically as a Product Designer.
- Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience.
- 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 be a user experience design leader, including usability principles, user research methodology,...
Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
