Sr Product Designer, Revenue & Growth

Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with hundreds of millions of users. It’s the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. With its beautiful design and lightning fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever.

About us:

Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with hundreds of millions of users. It’s the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet.  With its beautiful design and lightning fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever.

The Yahoo Mail Ads Growth & Monetization team is responsible for designing and evolving advertising experiences across the Mail ecosystem. We focus on building scalable, user-centered monetization solutions that support long-term revenue growth while maintaining user trust and product quality.

Who we’re looking for:

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer with strong product thinking, visual craft, and systems-level design skills to work on Yahoo Mail’s ad-supported experiences across desktop, mobile web, iOS, and Android. In this role, you will partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, Data Science, Research, and business stakeholders to shape advertising experiences within the inbox.

The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity and brings strong judgment to complex, revenue-critical design decisions, translating monetization strategy into clear design direction and high-quality solutions that balance user needs, advertiser value, and business goals.

Responsibilities:

Product designers at Yahoo Mail collaborate with cross-functional partners to define the vision for new features while owning and driving the craftsmanship for every interaction and visual design detail. Day-to-day, you will:

• Lead the design strategy for Yahoo Mail ads monetization, including ad formats, placements, and in-product surfaces that drive sustainable revenue while preserving a high-quality inbox experience

• Own the end-to-end design process for complex monetization features, from concept through launch, ensuring solutions are scalable, user-centered, and production-ready

• Translate monetization strategy into clear experience direction by exploring and prototyping new advertising formats and placements in partnership with Product, Engineering, Data, Sales and Revenue teams

• Design advertising experiences with an understanding of ad-serving and programmatic constraints, ensuring solutions are both user-centered and technically viable

• Partner with Legal and Privacy teams to design compliant, trust-forward advertising experiences that meet regulatory requirements and user expectations

• Design and validate advertising experiences through usability testing, research, and experimentation, iterating on designs using qualitative and quantitative data to improve performance, clarity, and trust

• Apply sound design judgment to make informed trade-offs that balance user needs, advertiser value, business objectives, and technical constraints

• Use design to clarify decisions, reduce ambiguity, and help teams maintain momentum when work is blocked 

• Contribute to Yahoo Mail’s design system by creating and refining ad-specific patterns and improving documentation to support scalable solutions

• Mentor other designers and facilitate critiques or working sessions to raise design quality and align teams on direction

You’re likely to succeed in this role if you:

• Draw on all aspects of product design—including IA, complex flows, motion, and visual design to create cohesive, scalable monetization experiences

• Think in systems, designing advertising patterns that work across formats and devices while maintaining clarity and trust

• Deliver consistent, polished layouts through strong typography, color, visual hierarchy, and attention to detail

• Use prototyping to explore ideas, test assumptions, and align cross-functional partners

• Apply sound design judgment to balance user needs, advertiser goals, and business outcomes

• Partner effectively with Product Managers, Engineers, and Data partners, clearly communicating design rationale and adapting your approach to different audiences and contexts

• Are data-fluent and comfortable working with ads monetization metrics such as ARPU, CPM, and Fill Rate, using them alongside user insights to inform design decisions and drive meaningful improvements

• Bring strong growth and experimentation instincts, iterating on designs through multiple experiments and learning quickly from results

• Thrive in fast-paced environments, balancing high-quality craft with the speed required for continuous experimentation and evolving business needs

• Bring a builder mindset to ambiguity and take ownership of outcomes, timelines, and design quality

• Bring complementary skills—such as illustration, animation, data visualization, user research, or front-end programming—to enrich how ideas are explored and communicated

• Demonstrate high emotional intelligence in cross-functional collaboration, contributing to a respectful, inclusive, and constructive design culture

• Actively invest in personal growth and contribute to the design community through mentorship, feedback, shared learning

Qualifications:

• Experience designing digital consumer web and mobile products at scale, with experience in monetization, advertising, or other complex systems preferred

• A strong portfolio demonstrating user-centered product thinking, polished visual craft, and thoughtful interaction design for complex, multi-surface experiences

• Proven experience owning a data-informed, end-to-end design process for complex features or systems with measurable impact

• Familiarity with programmatic advertising concepts and ad formats, and comfort designing within technical and regulatory constraints

• Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools to communicate concepts, flows, and specifications

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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The compensation for this position ranges from $128,250.00 - $266,875.00/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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