Senior Product Designer

Other New York, New York


Description

Position at Everyday Health - Consumer

The Opportunity

Everyday Health Group is looking for a Senior Product Designer who thinks in systems, not screens.

This role supports design across Everyday Health Group's portfolio of consumer brands. You'll be working across distinct audiences and business models under one roof, from health and wellness content to lifestyle and subscription products, with the mix of brands and depth of involvement shifting over time. That range is part of the job.

AI has changed what this job is. Wireframes, first-draft flows, and visual options that used to take days now take minutes. That's not a threat to this role, it's the reason this role exists. We need designers who use AI to clear the production work off their plate so they can spend their time on the part AI can't do: framing the right problem, making the hard call between two defensible options, and understanding why a user actually behaves the way they do.

This isn't just a shipping role. We want someone who brings a point of view on where a brand or product should go next, not just how to execute what's already been scoped.

If you're looking for a job where you produce assets on request, this isn't it. If you want a job where your judgment is the product, keep reading.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own design across Everyday Health Group's portfolio of consumer brands, with varying depth across brands, from problem framing through shipped experience

  • Explore multiple directions for a problem before committing, including options outside the current roadmap or sprint, and bring a point of view on where a brand or product should go next

  • Use AI tools to generate options and prototype fast, then apply editorial judgment to decide what actually ships

  • Use AI tools to analyze user testing sessions and surface patterns, applying judgment to determine what the findings actually mean for the design

  • Use AI tools to accelerate early-stage research (requirements gathering, competitive analysis, stakeholder feedback synthesis), then apply judgment to decide what's worth acting on

  • Design solutions that hold up across devices and breakpoints, with a mobile-first mindset

  • Translate business goals ("improve retention," "reduce drop-off") into specific, testable design questions

  • Partner directly with Product, Engineering, Editorial, Analytics, and Sales/Ad Ops to frame problems before jumping to solutions

  • Think in systems: understand how a change to one flow ripples across the rest of the product, including edge cases and downstream platforms

  • Present design rationale to stakeholders at every level, from engineers to senior leadership, in language each audience actually finds useful

  • Advocate for the user in rooms where the user isn't represented, including flagging when a feature's promise and its actual impact don't line up

  • Contribute to and help evolve our design systems, keeping consistency without slowing down iteration

  • Maintain and extend design systems directly, including working in shared variables and tokens so updates propagate cleanly across brands

  • Give and receive direct design critique as part of a small, senior team, no hand-holding required

 Job Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience as a product designer working on digital consumer platforms (web, app, and newsletters)

  • A portfolio that shows your thinking, not just your output. We want to see the messy problem you started with and the reasoning that got you to the final design, not just polished mocks

  • Fluency with AI design and research tools (Figma Make, Claude, prototyping copilots, research and user-testing synthesis tools, or equivalents) as a daily part of your workflow, not a novelty

  • Strong instincts for when to trust an AI-generated option and when to override it

  • Experience running user research and turning it into product decisions under real time pressure

  • Comfort with ambiguity. You don't wait for a fully-scoped brief to start asking the right questions

  • Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, with stakeholders who don't share your vocabulary

  • Experience working in an agile environment (Scrum or Kanban)

  • Strong proficiency in Figma, including working fluency with variables and tokens; you'll be maintaining and extending our design system directly, not just designing within it

  • Proficiency in Figma; familiarity with prototyping and motion tools a plus

  • Working knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) and experience designing for a broad range of ages and ability levels

 Nice to Have

  • Background in health, wellness, or another regulated or trust-sensitive consumer space

  • Experience designing across multiple brands or products with distinct audiences under one design system

  • Experience designing for both editorial and commerce/monetization surfaces

  • Experience mentoring junior or mid-level designers

 How We'll Evaluate You

We're not going to ask you to produce a stack of comps for a take-home. Expect a portfolio review where you walk us through your thinking on 2-3 projects, a working session on an ambiguous problem, and a conversation with cross-functional partners you'd actually work with. We want to see how you'd approach a problem, what questions you'd ask before opening Figma, and how you'd use AI tools to move fast without outsourcing the thinking.

Life at Everyday Health

At Everyday Health Group, the Health & Wellness division of Ziff Davis, we work in a culture of collaboration and welcome those who desire to join our growing global community.  We believe in careers versus jobs and people versus employees.  We seek enthusiastic individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit looking for an environment that rewards your best work. 

Everyday Health offers competitive salaries in addition to robust, health and wellness-focused benefits, including comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, as well as life and disability benefits. Our employees enjoy Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), a 401(k) with company match, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.  We are committed to work-life balance with Flexible Time Off, Volunteer Time Off and paid holidays. We offer family building and caregiving support and generous Family Care and Parental leave, when you need it.  We also provide Fitness Reimbursement and access to wellness programs, ensuring our team stays healthy both physically and mentally.

Our Culture and Values

We created our values together to guide our collective purpose and pursuits. We are collaborators and problem solvers. We empower one another to make informed decisions and to be enabled towards action. We embrace success. We recognize that innovation can spark and be born from any of us no matter our individual role or background. We encourage open mindedness and sensitivity to each other and our environment. Our personal and professional passions get ignited, nurtured and supported. We value that doing is greater than talking as the most measurable means of impact. Our collective purpose to deliver enlightened audience experiences with trusted brands is what drives the success of our business and our professional satisfaction.  

About Ziff Davis

Ziff Davis (NASDAQ: ZD) is a vertically focused digital media and internet company whose portfolio includes leading brands in technology, shopping, gaming and entertainment, health, cybersecurity, and martech. Today, Ziff Davis is focused on several key verticals – Technology, Shopping, Entertainment, Health & Wellness, Cybersecurity and Marketing Technology.  Its brands include IGN, Mashable, RetailMeNot, PCMag, Humble Bundle, Spiceworks, Everyday Health, BabyCenter, Moz, iContact and Vipre Security.

At Ziff Davis & Everyday Health Group, we remain dedicated to creating an environment where everyone feels valued, respected and empowered to succeed. We offer Employee Resource Groups, company-sponsored events, and regular opportunities for professional growth through educational support, mentorship programs and career development resources. Our employees are recognized and celebrated through employee engagement programs and recognition awards.

Ziff Davis is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  At Ziff Davis, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion has always been about fairness, equal​ opportunity and belonging, which enables us to attract and retain the best talent, regardless of background or circumstances, allowing our thousands of employees worldwide to thrive​.

The Company provides a range for the base pay. Factors that may be used to determine your actual pay may include your specific job related knowledge, skills, experience and geographic location. The salary compensation for this role is $150,000 to $175,000.  Individual pay within the compensation range for this business unit specific role is determined based on a variety of factors including experience, scope of the role, capabilities to perform the role, education and training, as well as business and company performance.

If you're seeking a dynamic and collaborative work environment where you can see the direct impact of your performance and thrive both personally and professionally, then Everyday Health Group is the place for you.  Everyday Health Group has employees located in 40+ states as well as offices in NYC, Asheville, Boston, London, England and Mumbai, India.