Staff Product Designer, Mobile

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🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote

💵 $149.9k - $154.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🎨 Product Designer (UI/UX)

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NPR

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1970

📱 Media

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

💰 $4.7M Grant on 2020-05

Media • Non-profit • Social Impact

NPR is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing breaking news, analysis, music, arts, and podcasts. As a prominent figure in journalism, NPR covers top stories in U. S. and world news, politics, health, science, business, and culture. Among its many offerings, NPR is known for its diverse range of podcasts and programming that include news, music, and cultural topics, thereby fulfilling its mission of public service journalism and cultural exploration.

📋 Description

• Drive cross-organizational design strategy and product vision by translating audience insights into scalable digital experiences that align with NPR's public service mission and strengthen long-term audience relationships. • Lead end-to-end product discovery and experience design for NPR’s next-generation mobile platform, guiding projects from opportunity framing and audience research through prototyping, validation, systems design, and launch. • Direct the user-experience strategy for NPR’s personalization engine overhaul, crafting adaptive, habit-forming digital experiences that increase audience engagement, retention, and trust while honoring public media values. • Champion an evidence-driven design culture across product teams, using rapid experimentation, audience feedback, and measurable outcomes to validate ideas early and ground product decisions in actual audience behavior. • Partner closely with Product, Software Engineering, Research, Data, Newsroom/Editorial teams, and external UX consultants to align strategy, refine implementations, and define the future of NPR's digital portfolio. • Build, scale, and maintain robust, accessible design systems that harmonize and elevate the user experience across web, native mobile, and connected audio surfaces. • Champion inclusive design principles and accessibility standards (WCAG) across all digital products to ensure NPR's platforms are universally accessible to diverse national audiences. • Partner with mid-level and senior designers to provide constructive design critiques, foster professional growth, and uphold high visual and functional standards across initiatives. • Facilitate design thinking workshops, discovery sprints, and co-creation sessions with product, editorial, and technical stakeholders to drive collaborative problem-solving. • Present design strategies, product vision, and user-centered rationale clearly and persuasively to cross-functional teams, member station partners, and executive leadership.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience leading product design strategies and shipping scalable digital products across web and mobile ecosystems. • 2+ years as a Staff, Principal, or equivalent senior individual contributor. • Native mobile design expertise (iOS & Android) with a proven focus on adaptive experiences, responsive layouts, and comprehensive mobile design systems. • Exceptional product judgment and systems thinking. • Proven ability to design inclusive interfaces that comply with WCAG and web accessibility standards. • Strong proficiency in design thinking frameworks and agile methodologies, integrating user-centered practices seamlessly into delivery cycles. • Versatility across low- to high-fidelity prototyping techniques to rapidly validate ideas and align product teams. • Strong track record of designing across complex contexts, including both consumer-facing platforms and internal enterprise tools.

🏖️ Benefits

• Access to health and wellness • Paid time off • Financial well-being programs • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Life insurance • Accidental death and dismemberment insurance • Long-term disability insurance • Short-term disability insurance • Voluntary retirement savings