Principal Product Designer, Yahoo Finance

Yahoo Finance is the world’s #1 finance destination, empowering investors with news, information, and tools to make financial decisions with confidence. Trusted by over 150M visitors globally each month, representing over $20 trillion dollars in investable assets, Yahoo Finance delivers high-quality real-time market data across desktop, mobile, and streaming platforms. With breaking news from thousands of sources, original editorial perspectives, objective analyst ratings and research, analytical charts and technical tools, personalized mobile alerts, and much more, Yahoo Finance equips investors with knowledge and insights to achieve financial freedom and greater prosperity.

As a Principal Product Designer, you will lead design vision and execution for high-impact initiatives that combine human insight with intelligent technology. You will shape the next chapter of Yahoo Finance by crafting systems, interfaces, and interactions that feel effortless, insightful, and distinctly human.

What You’ll Do

• Lead end-to-end design for major initiatives that redefine how investors explore, analyze, and act on financial information.

• Turn emerging technologies into approachable and intuitive product experiences.

• Collaborate with product, engineering, data science, and editorial partners to build features that learn, adapt, and deliver meaningful insights.

• Use research and data to guide design strategy, shape hypotheses, and measure success.

• Create prototypes that bring intelligent concepts to life and test multiple interaction models.

• Evolve our design systems to support dynamic, context-aware product experiences.

• Take ownership of timelines, deliverables, and outcomes while maintaining a high standard of quality.

• Drive alignment through clear storytelling and strong cross-functional relationships.

• Mentor designers and promote a culture of experimentation, craft excellence, and purpose-driven innovation.

What You’ll Bring:

• 10 or more years of product design experience with a track record of creating elegant, data-informed solutions.

• Strong systems thinking and ability to design across complex information architectures.

• Proven ability to partner deeply with PMs, engineers, and data partners.

• Mastery of Figma and proven experience with interactive prototyping tools that bring motion, behavior, and interaction to life.

• Comfort operating in emerging or evolving product spaces.

• Experience designing inclusive and accessible experiences that meet or exceed accessibility standards.

• A portfolio that shows thoughtful, user-focused work and strong storytelling.

• Ability to use data and insights to inform design decisions and evaluate impact.

• Passion for creating experiences that make complexity feel simple.

• Deep curiosity about finance, investing, and helping people make confident financial decisions.

• A growth mindset and enthusiasm for continuous learning, experimentation, and improvement.

Why Yahoo Finance:

This is a chance to shape the next generation of investor tools that anticipate user needs and adapt to them. You will join a team that values clarity, experimentation, and craft, building meaningful experiences at global scale.

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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!

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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.

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. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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