Senior Digital Designer

The role

The Senior Product Designer will work with the Product team to envision and design innovative news products. You will partner with Editorial, Product, and Engineering to design and launch solutions and contribute to design systems and brand guidelines.

What you will do

• Work with our Product team to envision and design innovative news products
• Partner closely with Editorial, Product, and Engineering to design and launch solutions
• Hold a high bar for the Semafor product experience
• Support marketing and audience functions to create brand materials
• Contribute to Semafor’s design systems and brand guidelines
• Collaborate with freelancers and other designers, offering critique and feedback
• Help create a collaborative and productive design culture
• Bring a strong industry perspective on competitors

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of visual and product interaction design experience
• Experience in high-growth consumer companies and/or media businesses
• Ability to develop high-quality, production-ready designs with a high degree of independence
• Experience working with and ideally developing design systems
• Enthusiasm for working collaboratively on a cross-functional team
• Experience working with diverse teams
• Comfortable incorporating AI tools into your design workflow
• Experience in start-up and/or dynamic work environment
• Entrepreneurial drive
• Passion for the media industry and great journalism
• Willingness to work in person four days per week in New York
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as needed

Nice to have

• ideally developing design systems

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) policy

Before you apply

• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States

About the company

Semafor is a global news platform. It aims to enable world-class journalists to deliver reporting and insights with rigor and transparency.