Principal Product Designer, Partnerships

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Yahoo is a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people around the world, empowering them to achieve their goals online through a portfolio of iconic, beloved products.

We’re looking for a visually driven, detail-obsessed Principal Product Designer to lead design for our Partnerships team. In this strategic role, you’ll craft polished, brand-elevating experiences that strengthen Yahoo’s most important partner relationships.

You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams—including Designers, Product Managers, Engineers, Researchers, and Content Strategists—as well as external partners. Your focus will be on delivering visually stunning, accessible experiences that reflect Yahoo’s design excellence and product values.

Your work will span multiple Yahoo products and services, with particular emphasis on marketing and partner-facing experiences—often the first touchpoints for users and partners. Strong visual design craft, including layout, typography, brand expression, and pixel-level precision, is essential.

You’ll partner directly with leadership to define and elevate the design direction of high-impact initiatives. We’re especially interested in designers who embrace AI as a collaborator and leverage emerging tools for ideation, prototyping, insight generation, or workflow optimization.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end design of strategic, partner-facing experiences across Yahoo products.
• Deliver intuitive, elegant solutions that reflect a deep understanding of user needs, partner goals, and brand expression.
• Set a high bar for visual and interaction design quality; obsess over details, from typography and spacing to motion and micro interactions.
• Advocate for focused, minimalist design that enhances clarity, usability, and impact.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, research, and brand to turn ideas into polished, user-centered solutions.
• Prototype at high fidelity to explore ideas, test hypotheses, and communicate design intent early and often.
• Work upstream with company leadership to shape design direction on 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 feedback discussions and apply input in ways that strengthen the work without compromising vision.
• Mentor other designers and foster a culture of creative excellence and continuous refinement.

Who You Are

• A master of visual craft, with deep expertise in layout, typography, color, and brand application.
• Experienced in designing across a range of surfaces—including marketing pages, partner portals, and product UIs.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and confident in building new design directions from the ground up (0 → 1).
• 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.
• Familiar with motion design principles and how interaction enhances the user experience.
• Curious about emerging tools and technologies, particularly AI’s role in design workflows.
• Proficient with tools like Figma and Framer to explore, refine, and present design ideas.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing digital products, with a strong emphasis on visual design.Experience designing for both iOS and Android platforms, with a strong understanding of platform guidelines and best practices
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Design, Visual Communication, HCI, or a related field.
• A portfolio showcasing elegant, high-quality design across both product and marketing experiences.
• Experience designing partner-facing or brand-integrated platforms is a strong plus.
• 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 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.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace strengthens Yahoo and deepens our relationships. When you support everyone to be their best selves, they spark discovery, innovation and creativity. Among other efforts, our 11 employee resource groups (ERGs) enhance a culture of belonging with programs, events and fellowship that help educate, support and create a workplace where all feel welcome.

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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