Director, Product Design User Interface

The Washington Post is seeking a Director, Product Design User Interface to shape the visual and interaction design of its digital products across web, mobile apps, and emerging platforms. In this onsite role in Washington, DC, you will set the standards for interface craft, guide how UI is built at scale, and partner with Product, Engineering, and content teams to deliver a distinctive reader experience.

Key responsibilities

• Define and continuously evolve The Post’s UI design language across web, mobile apps, and emerging product surfaces.
• Set a clear, high-quality bar for visual design, interaction design, motion, and overall interface craft.
• Lead the creation, adoption, and governance of a scalable design system in close partnership with Engineering.
• Establish reusable components, interaction patterns, and standards to help teams build cohesive product experiences more consistently and efficiently.
• Review and improve the quality of major product experiences from early concepts through launch, providing craft direction and actionable feedback.
• Partner with Product Management to translate product strategy and customer needs into intuitive, distinctive interfaces.
• Partner with Engineering to ensure the design system is practical to implement, accessible, scalable, and able to evolve with the product.
• Work closely with Content Design and newsroom partners so interfaces reflect the quality, authority, and distinctiveness of The Post’s journalism.
• Mentor and develop designers to strengthen visual and interaction-design craft across the organization.
• Spot opportunities to simplify inconsistent experiences, reduce duplicate design and development work, and improve cohesion across The Post’s product ecosystem.
• Stay current on interface-design practices, platforms, and tools, including AI-enabled design and development workflows, and determine where they can improve quality and speed.

What you bring

• Significant experience in product design, UI design, interaction design, or a related discipline, with deep expertise in designing high-quality digital product experiences.
• Demonstrated experience defining or evolving visual design languages, interaction patterns, component systems, or large-scale design systems.
• Strong visual and interaction-design craft, including expertise in typography, layout, hierarchy, interaction, motion, responsive design, and component-based interfaces.
• Experience designing across multiple digital surfaces, including web and mobile applications.
• Experience leading the development, adoption, or governance of reusable design systems in partnership with Engineering.
• Ability to provide design direction, critique complex product experiences, and raise quality from concept through launch.
• Experience partnering closely with Product Management and Engineering to translate product strategy and user needs into scalable, technically feasible experiences.
• Strong understanding of accessibility and how it informs interface and design-system decisions.
• Experience mentoring and developing designers and strengthening design craft across teams.
• Ability to influence quality and execution across multidisciplinary teams while operating as a senior craft leader.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and presentation skills, including the ability to articulate design decisions and standards to design, product, engineering, editorial, and senior stakeholders.
• Ability to identify inconsistencies and systemic design problems and turn them into reusable patterns, standards, and scalable solutions.
• Familiarity with modern product-design and prototyping tools, and emerging AI-enabled design or development workflows, with sound judgment on where and how to apply them.

Compensation and benefits

Salary range: USD 159,100 - 265,100 per year. This position may be eligible for a bonus or incentive program.

• Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage
• Company-paid pension and 401(k) match
• Three weeks of vacation and up to three weeks of paid sick leave
• Nine paid holidays and two personal days
• 20 weeks paid parental leave for any new parent
• Robust mental health resources
• Backup care and caregiver concierge services
• Gender affirming services
• Pet insurance
• Free Post digital subscription
• Leadership and career development programs

Role location

Washington, DC (onsite)