Yahoo · 1 week ago
Director, Product design
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$161K/yr - $350K/yr
12+ years expYahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through their portfolio of iconic products. The Director of Design is a senior design leader responsible for shaping the vision, strategy, and execution of design across a significant product area while fostering a healthy and inclusive design culture.
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Responsibilities
Develop senior design leaders: Mentor and grow senior managers (M4) and principal designers (IC5–IC6), building a strong leadership bench for future organizational needs
Organizational design: Proactively structure and evolve the design organization to meet long-term strategic goals, ensuring clarity in roles, ownership, and accountability
Culture and inclusion: Champion psychological safety, collaboration, and inclusion across all levels, fostering a strong, values-driven design culture
Succession planning: Actively manage and prepare successors for key leadership roles across the design organization
Strategic program delivery: Own a portfolio of high-impact, multi-year design initiatives, ensuring delivery aligns with business goals
Operational excellence: Design and implement scalable operational processes (e.g., planning, design reviews, hiring, onboarding) that enhance quality and predictability
Resource stewardship: Ensure optimal allocation of senior design talent and resources across teams to tackle complex challenges effectively
Quality and consistency: Act as the executive escalation point for major design decisions and ensure all design output meets the highest standards of user experience and business impact
Vision for design excellence: Define and uphold design quality standards across the organization, serving as the final point of accountability for user experience within the business unit
System architecture: Oversee and guide design system strategy to ensure coherence, scalability, and long-term sustainability across products
Strategic simplification: Identify opportunities to align and simplify design systems across teams and organizations, reducing fragmentation and improving efficiency
Industry influence: Champion alignment with industry best practices and innovations, ensuring the company’s design remains competitive and forward-looking
Strategic partnership: Serve as a trusted advisor to VPs, GMs, and executive peers across Product, Engineering, and Research, co-defining business strategy through a design lens
Design strategy ownership: Translate broad, ambiguous business objectives into a clear, multi-year design strategy that drives measurable impact
Cross-functional influence: Build deep relationships across business units, ensuring design priorities are represented and integrated into company-wide planning
External representation: Shape and elevate the company’s external design brand through partnerships, industry engagement, and thought leadership opportunities
Qualification
Required
12+ years of experience in product design, UX, or related disciplines, with 5+ years managing design teams at scale
Proven success leading senior managers and cross-functional design organizations
Deep expertise in systems thinking, user-centered design, and large-scale design operations
Strong business acumen and experience translating design strategy into measurable outcomes
Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of influencing senior executives
Preferred
Experience working in complex, matrixed organizations or across multiple product areas
Benefits
Healthcare
A great 401k
Backup childcare
Education stipends
Much (much) more
Company
Yahoo
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services. It is a sub-organization of Verizon Media.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2023 (197)
2022 (646)
2021 (381)
2020 (463)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.8MKey Investors
SoftBank GroupSequoia Capital
2021-05-03Acquired
1996-04-12IPO
1995-11-30Series B· $4.8M
Leadership Team
Monica Vorn Mijaleski
Chief Financial Officer
Mike Gupta
SVP Finance / Chief Treasury Officer
Recent News
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