Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

We're looking for a Systems Designer to help lead the design and implementation of Yahoo OS across our Home Ecosystem products. As part of the Central Design organization, this role will work with Design Studio, Brand and our Foundations team to establish a cohesive look and feel across all our business units. This role will work directly with Product, Design and Engineering within News, Search, Platforms and Mail in establishing their business unit's design system.

This is a new team with an opportunity to have impact across Yahoo's suite of products.

Responsibilities

As a Systems Designer you will:

• Partner with brand and visual designers to establish an underlying set of patterns and primitives for teams to build upon

• Partner with product designers across the business unit

• Design and build a flexible, yet cohesive system across all of Home Ecosystem

• Develop cross-functional relationships and bring people together.

• Drive guidance for core attributes and design quality to support consistency and velocity

About you

• Ownership mindset and accountability with experience leading complex projects and driving innovation efforts that uncovered new value with new kinds of user experiences.

• Excels in all forms of communication, including using storytelling and narrative to influence and persuade stakeholders. Presents designs clearly to facilitate useful feedback while shifting approach based on the audience and desired outcome.

• Attention to visual detail, high sense of craft/quality, delivering consistent, polished, and balanced layouts through typography, color, and visual hierarchy.

• Can operate almost entirely autonomously, but understands when to bring others into conversations for input and decision making.

• Experienced leading groups and mentoring other designers.

• Seasoned in all facets of information architecture, interaction design, and UI design.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in design or human-computer interaction; or equivalent work experience

• Portfolio that demonstrates expertise in visual design, interaction design, prototyping and product thinking.

• Experience leading a user-centered design process from end-to-end.

• Proficiency in software to create design concepts, prototypes, assets and specifications.

• Skills such as illustration, photography, animation, data visualization, conducting user interviews, front-end programming or data science are a plus!

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 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 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

At Yahoo, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion (www.yahooinc.com/diversity/) page to learn more.

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, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.

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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