Principal Product Designer, Yahoo Everywhere

Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900 million people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love—from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming, and news—through trusted products, content, and technology that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform that helps businesses amplify growth and build meaningful connections across advertising, search, and media. 

Yahoo Everywhere takes Yahoo products onto surfaces we do not own. We work with partners across OEMs, apps, connected TV, automotive, and ambient digital surfaces. Yahoo Weather, News, Sports, Finance, and Games land on the devices people buy, inside browsers, and on screens sitting in cars or on wrists. Every deal is a design problem: how Yahoo shows up inside someone else’s product, how our brand stays present, and how we add value while retaining a direct line to the user. 

We are seeking a Principal Product Designer (IC6) to lead design strategy and experience architecture for Yahoo Everywhere. Operating alongside Business Development leadership, you will serve as the final design decision-maker for everything put in front of external partners. This role combines vision and strategic judgment. You will lead speculative concepting—visualizing how Yahoo experiences materialize on ambient screens, automotive displays, and white-label hardware before business cases are fully formed. You will also represent Design in partner negotiations, holding the line on brand prominence and user attribution. You will guide production designers across active implementations, setting calibration standards, shaping partner playbooks, and building scalable design systems that make every integration faster and more impactful. 

• →

• 10+ years of experience designing consumer-facing digital products, with a documented track record of shaping product strategy and shipping complex digital experiences across web, mobile, and emerging devices. 

• Proven experience serving as the final design decision-maker for a product area, with a portfolio showcasing strategic concept vision, systems design leadership, and shipped products. 

• Demonstrated experience designing for third-party or restricted surfaces, such as partner integrations, embedded systems, white-label products, OEM placements, or platform distribution.

• Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted design or code-generation tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Figma AI) within professional workflows to accelerate prototyping, ideation, or system scaling.

• Proven experience presenting to external executives, participating in commercial deal discussions, and negotiating brand positioning against business constraints. 

• Expert command of design fundamentals, brand systems, interaction design, information architecture, and responsive UX layouts across varied form factors. 

• Experience defining, scaling, and maintaining enterprise design systems or platform distribution frameworks. 

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience verified through a history of industry leadership. 

• Experience designing for next-generation consumer surfaces, including connected TV, automotive infotainment systems, wearables, or ambient AI interfaces.

• Experience working directly with Business Development, Corporate Strategy, or Partnership teams on OEM, carrier, or browser distribution deals. 

• Prior background spanning both product design and creative/brand direction. 

• Active involvement in exploring emerging generative AI tools, prompt engineering for UI generation, and spatial or ambient design paradigms.

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.

Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.