Staff Product Designer, Mobile

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in District of Columbia.

📋 Description

• Lead the development of cross-organizational design strategies and product vision by transforming audience insights into scalable digital experiences that align with NPR's public service mission and enhance long-term audience relationships.

• Oversee the complete product discovery and experience design for NPR’s next-generation mobile platform, guiding initiatives from opportunity framing and audience research to prototyping, validation, systems design, and launch.

• Direct the user-experience strategy for NPR’s personalization engine revamp, creating adaptive, engaging digital experiences that boost audience interaction, retention, and trust while upholding public media values.

• Promote a data-driven design culture throughout product teams, employing rapid experimentation, audience feedback, and measurable outcomes to validate concepts early and base product decisions on actual audience behavior.

• Collaborate closely with Product, Software Engineering, Research, Data, Newsroom/Editorial teams, and external UX consultants to synchronize strategy, enhance implementations, and shape the future of NPR's digital portfolio.

• Develop, scale, and sustain robust, accessible design systems that unify and enhance the user experience across web, native mobile, and connected audio platforms.

• Advocate for inclusive design principles and accessibility standards (WCAG) across all digital products to ensure NPR's platforms are accessible to diverse national audiences.

• Work alongside mid-level and senior designers to offer constructive design critiques, encourage professional growth, and maintain high visual and functional standards across projects.

• Lead design thinking workshops, discovery sprints, and co-creation sessions with product, editorial, and technical stakeholders to foster collaborative problem-solving.

• Articulate design strategies, product vision, and user-centered reasoning clearly and convincingly to cross-functional teams, member station partners, and executive leadership.

⛳️ Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in leading product design strategies and delivering scalable digital products within web and mobile ecosystems.

• 2+ years in a Staff, Principal, or equivalent senior individual contributor role.

• Expertise in native mobile design (iOS & Android) with a proven emphasis on adaptive experiences, responsive layouts, and comprehensive mobile design systems.

• Outstanding product judgment and systems thinking capabilities.

• Demonstrated ability to design inclusive interfaces that meet WCAG and web accessibility standards.

• Strong command of design thinking frameworks and agile methodologies, seamlessly integrating user-centered practices into delivery cycles.

• Versatile in low- to high-fidelity prototyping techniques to quickly validate ideas and align product teams.

• Proven track record of designing in complex contexts, encompassing 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