Senior Designer - Product & Experience

About the role

This role connects consumer centered business strategy with digital product execution at scale. The Senior Designer advocates for user needs while shaping media, community, and connection outcomes. This position leads design critique and partners closely with stakeholders to deliver on TEGNA's mission. Designers shape how products look and feel while solving meaningful problems for real users. The role requires balancing user needs with business constraints through thoughtful design decisions. Design work spans research, interaction design, and visual design to create coherent digital experiences. Collaboration with product and engineering happens daily in fast paced and iterative cycles. Design decisions are judged by outcomes such as usability, conversion, and customer satisfaction in real media contexts.

Key facts

What you'll do

Track digital media and utility trends, then evaluate and promote design approaches that align with user and business goals. Represent user priorities in product and feature development to guide prioritization decisions and influence roadmaps. Lead collaborative discussions of design work, gather requirements from stakeholders, and partner on delivering TEGNA's mission through structured design processes. Anticipate customer needs and create proactive solutions through design that address evolving user expectations in media and information services. Solve complex problems and generate innovative product and experience concepts that support engagement and utility across platforms. Review contributions from peers and recommend improvements to elevate solution quality and maintain consistency within design systems. Inspire and motivate other team members through guidance, mentorship, and leading by example in design thinking and execution. Use structured design methods to break down problems, explore multiple possibilities, and converge on effective digital product solutions. Maintain a strong focus on usability, accessibility, and performance while delivering polished and production ready design artifacts. Partner with research, product management, and engineering to validate ideas, measure impact, and iterate based on real user data.

Requirements

Bring 5+ years of hands on experience in product design for mobile first platforms, design systems, and related services in professional settings. Demonstrate strong craft and excellent design capabilities for consumer grade products and experiences across digital touchpoints. Apply user research methods, including facilitation and analysis, to inform design decisions and validate design directions. Show experience with product model thinking and managing products or product families over time and across markets. Use Adobe Creative Suite and Figma effectively to communicate concepts, prototypes, and high fidelity design solutions. Work confidently within agile software development environments and adapt to changing priorities and evolving requirements. Maintain keen attention to detail while multitasking and performing under pressure in fast paced media and technology settings. Navigate complex products, enterprise capabilities, and multiple interconnected products across different user segments. Work across office locations and stations as needed for station assignments and regional collaboration. Meet educational requirements by holding a Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience that supports the role. Comply with company policies, legal standards, and professional ethics in all design work. Demonstrate written and verbal communication skills necessary for documenting design decisions and articulating trade offs. Show commitment to continuous learning and professional growth in design methods, tools, and industry practices. Ability to manage multiple projects and deliverables while maintaining quality and consistency in design outputs.

Nice to have

Experience communicating design rationale to both business and technical audiences in clear and constructive ways. Fluency in design operations and governance across distributed teams and organizational structures.

Skills & tools

Expert level proficiency with Figma and related design tools for creating digital products and interactive prototypes. Strong storytelling and presentation skills for stakeholder reviews and executive communication. Understanding of content strategy and information architecture principles applied to media and utility services. Familiarity with news and media workflows in a multi platform environment and evolving user contexts. Knowledge of design systems, component libraries, and patterns used to scale digital products efficiently. Experience with collaborative design processes, feedback incorporation, and iterative improvement of digital experiences.

Practical notes

This role may be covered by a collective bargaining agreement, which can affect benefits and work terms for some positions. Some newsroom positions follow union administered health and retirement plans. Typical interview steps include a portfolio review, a design exercise, and a team conversation where candidates present past work and explain their process and decisions. Some loops include a live design challenge to assess real time problem solving and communication. Communication matters as much as the visual output, and portfolios are strongest when they show the problem, the constraints, and the iteration, not just the final screens. Interviewers also watch how candidates take feedback and respond to collaborative critique.