Product Designer: Research & Tools

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.

About Yahoo Finance

Yahoo Finance is the world’s #1 destination for finance, offering investors the tools, news, and insights they need to make confident financial decisions. With over 150 million global visitors each month, representing over $20 trillion in investable assets, Yahoo Finance provides high-quality, real-time market data across desktop, mobile, and streaming platforms. From breaking news to original editorial perspectives, research, personalized alerts, and more, Yahoo Finance is here to empower investors on their journey to financial freedom and greater prosperity.

About The Team

The Investing Decisions team creates tools and experiences for investors across the spectrum—from long-term fundamental investors to short-term technical traders. Our mission is to help U.S. users navigate the markets, analyze investments, and discover new trade ideas. We focus on delivering intuitive features such as portfolio tracking, stock screeners, and advanced research capabilities, all found on Yahoo Finance.

About The Role

This is a unique opportunity to become the first Product Designer for Yahoo Finance based in India. You’ll join a global, cross-functional team focused on building powerful and accessible tools that support U.S.-based investors. As a Product Designer on the Research & Tools team, you’ll lead design efforts from concept to launch, helping shape the strategy, user experience, and visual language of tools that empower users to make smarter investment decisions. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and other designers to build thoughtful, data-informed experiences across platforms.

Qualifications And Requirements

This role will require strength of character coupled with excellent communication, collaboration, and design skills, including:

Location

• Bangalore. Hybrid work schedule requiring 3 days in office

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or a related field, or equivalent professional experience

Experience

• 5+ years of professional experience in Product Design

Communication & Collaboration

• Work well with cross-functional partners and stakeholders to align designs with user needs and business goals
• Able to clearly and proactively communicate design rationale and proposals
• Open to receiving and acting on feedback

Design Skills

• Strong design portfolio demonstrating how you’ve created elegant solutions for real user problems that have resulted in positive experiences and impactful outcomes
• Insightful product thinking and a user-centered approach to problem solving
• Excellent UX/Interaction Design and ability to simplify complicated flows
• High level of craft and clean visual design (typography, layout, color, etc.)
• Experience in data visualization or copywriting is a bonus

Technical Proficiency

• Mastery of Figma and other design and prototyping tools
• Solid understanding of front-end development (HTML, CSS)
• Experience working with design systems and a commitment to maintaining them for consistent and seamless user experiences

Time Management

• Able to prioritize and work across multiple projects while meeting deadlines
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders and manage expectations
• Experience working with Design teams overseas

Continuous Learning & Adaptability

• Stay up-to-date with design trends, tools, and best practices
• Willing to take on new challenges, learn from others, and figure things out
• Track record of continuously refining and evolving product experiences, streamlining workflows, and improving designs based on user feedback and testing

Important notes for your attention

Applications:

All applicants must apply for Yahoo openings direct with Yahoo. We do not authorize any external agencies in India to handle candidates’ applications. No agency nor individual may charge candidates for any efforts they make on an applicant’s behalf in the hiring process.

Our internal recruiters will reach out to you directly to discuss the next steps if we determine that the role is a good fit for you. Selected candidates will go through formal interviews and assessments arranged by Yahoo direct.

Offer Distributions:

Our electronic offer letter and documents will be issued through our system for e-signatures, not via individual emails.

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.

Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements.

If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

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