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At The Washington Post, you’ll help reinvent news. Our work is driven by a deep investigative spirit and enhanced by innovation to bring audiences closer to the stories that matter most.\nAbout Our Team\nThe Washington Post is powered by the passion and talent of our people. It takes all of us to reinvent news. Beyond our award-winning News and Opinions teams, we work across many departments, including Brand & Events, Communications, Customer Care, Engineering & Product, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Marketing & Advertising, Print Operations, and Sales.\nWhy This Role Matters\nThe Washington Post is seeking a Director, Product Design User Interface to lead the visual and interaction design of our digital products across web, mobile apps, and emerging platforms.\nThis is a senior craft leadership role for a designer who can set a high bar for interface quality, establish the systems that allow teams to meet it consistently, and help create a more modern, distinctive, and coherent reader experience. The Director, Product Design User Interface will own the design language, component systems, interaction patterns, and quality standards that shape how readers experience The Post.\nWorking closely with Product, Engineering, Content Design, newsroom partners, and the broader Product Design organization, this leader will translate product and design strategy into consistently excellent execution while building scalable systems that help teams design and develop experiences more efficiently.\nThis role is distinct from the broader Product Design leader, who will own the Product Design organization and lead cross-company design alignment and the organization’s operational responsibilities. The Director, Product Design User Interface will serve as the organization’s senior leader for interface craft and execution.\nThis position is based in Washington, D.C.\nWhat Motivates You\nYou care deeply about visual and interaction design and believe exceptional interface craft is fundamental to a great product experience.\nYou are energized by creating coherent design systems that give teams both clear standards and reusable tools to build better products.\nYou enjoy setting a high bar for design quality while helping designers and cross-functional partners consistently meet it.\nYou are excited by the challenge of bringing greater consistency and distinctiveness to experiences spanning web, mobile apps, and emerging platforms.\nYou enjoy working closely with Product and Engineering to turn ambitious ideas into intuitive, accessible, and scalable interfaces.\nYou value the details of typography, layout, interaction, motion, components, and patterns while understanding how those decisions contribute to a broader product experience.\nYou enjoy mentoring designers and strengthening interface-design craft across an organization.\nYou are curious about emerging design practices and AI-enabled tools and thoughtful about where they can improve quality and speed without replacing strong craft and judgment.\nHow You'll Support the Mission\nDefine and evolve The Post’s UI design language across web, mobile apps, and emerging product surfaces.\nEstablish a clear, high-quality bar for visual design, interaction design, motion, and interface craft.\nLead the development, adoption, and governance of a scalable design system in close partnership with Engineering.\nEstablish reusable components, interaction patterns, and standards that enable teams to build cohesive product experiences more consistently and efficiently.\nReview and improve the quality of major product experiences from early concepts through launch, providing clear craft direction and feedback.\nPartner with Product Management to translate product strategy and customer needs into intuitive, distinctive interfaces.\nPartner with Engineering to ensure the design system is practical to implement, accessible, scalable, and able to evolve with the product.\nWork closely with Content Design and newsroom partners to ensure interfaces reflect the quality, authority, and distinctiveness of The Post’s journalism.\nMentor and develop designers, strengthening visual and interaction-design craft across the organization.\nIdentify opportunities to simplify inconsistent experiences, reduce duplicate design and development work, and improve cohesion across The Post’s product ecosystem.\nStay current on interface-design practices, platforms, and tools-including AI-enabled design and development workflows-and determine where they can improve the quality and speed of our work.\nThe Skills and Experience You Bring\nQualifications\nSignificant experience in product design, UI design, interaction design, or a related discipline, with deep expertise designing high-quality digital product experiences.\nDemonstrated experience defining or evolving visual design languages, interaction patterns, component systems, or large-scale design systems.\nStrong visual and interaction-design craft, including expertise in areas such as typography, layout, hierarchy, interaction, motion, responsive design, and component-based interfaces.\nExperience designing across multiple digital surfaces, including web and mobile applications.\nExperience leading the development, adoption, or governance of reusable design systems in partnership with Engineering.\nDemonstrated ability to provide design direction, critique complex product experiences, and raise the quality of work from concept through launch.\nExperience partnering closely with Product Management and Engineering to translate product strategy and user needs into scalable, technically feasible product experiences.\nStrong understanding of accessibility and its application to interface and design-system decisions.\nExperience mentoring and developing designers and strengthening design craft across teams.\nAbility to influence quality and execution across multidisciplinary teams while operating as a senior craft leader.\nStrong communication, collaboration, and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions and standards to design, product, engineering, editorial, and senior stakeholders.\nAbility to identify inconsistencies and systemic design problems and translate them into reusable patterns, standards, and scalable solutions.\nFamiliarity with modern product-design and prototyping tools and emerging AI-enabled design or development workflows, with strong judgment about where and how to apply them.\n\nCollaboration makes us stronger. That’s why our offices are designed with open layouts, modern technology, and easy access to transportation. With certain exceptions for newsgathering and business travel, we work on-site five days a week.\nCompensation and Benefits\nWherever you are in your life or career, The Washington Post offers comprehensive and inclusive benefits for every step of your journey:\nCompetitive medical, dental and vision coverage\n\nCompany-paid pension and 401(k) match\n\nThree weeks of vacation and up to three weeks of paid sick leave\n\nNine paid holidays and two personal days\n\n20 weeks paid parental leave for any new parent\n\nRobust mental health resources\n\nBackup care and caregiver concierge services\n\nGender affirming services\n\nPet insurance\n\nFree Post digital subscription\n\nLeadership and career development programs\n\nBenefits may vary based on the job, full-time or part-time schedule, location, and collectively bargained status.\nThe salary range for this position is:\n$159,100 - $265,100 AnnualThe actual salary within this range will depend on individual skills, experience, and qualifications as they relate to specific job requirements. This position may be eligible for a bonus or incentive program, and a member of the Talent Acquisition team will discuss bonus payment terms and conditions during the interview process.\nYour story awaits. 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