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OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANYFox Corporation Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world's leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking. JOB DESCRIPTION

We are seeking a Director of Product Design to lead user experience design across FOX News Media. You'll build and lead our design team while establishing design excellence, consistency, and innovation across web, mobile, and emerging platforms.

You'll be responsible for evolving our design practice to leverage AI tools for design productivity and exploring AI-powered user experiences. Success means shipping products that users love while building a high-performing design team and establishing FOX News Media as a leader in digital news experience design.

This role requires someone who can operate strategically (setting design vision and standards) while remaining hands-on when needed (design reviews, critiques, key projects). You'll partner closely with product leadership to ensure user experience drives product decisions, with engineering teams to ensure design feasibility and quality implementation, and with editorial and business stakeholders to balance user needs with business goals.

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Design Leadership & Vision

• Set design vision and strategy for FOX News Media digital products across all properties

• Drive adoption of AI tools within design team for productivity (AI-assisted design, prototyping, asset generation)

• Establish and maintain design standards, patterns, and quality bar across web, mobile, and emerging platforms

• Champion user-centered design approach in product and business discussions

• Define what great user experience means for news, ensuring designs serve both editorial goals and user needs

• Ensure responsible, user-centered approach to AI features in product design

• Make key design decisions that affect multiple products or properties

• Represent design perspective in senior leadership discussions and product planning

Team Building & Management

• Lead UX design team supporting all FOX News Media digital properties

• Help the design team develop AI literacy and AI-native design workflowsStay current on UX trends, emerging platforms, and design innovation in digital media

• Manage designers across disciplines: UX design, UI design, interaction design, technical design

• Foster collaborative, high-performing design culture focused on user impact and craft excellence

• Manage design team capacity and allocate resources across competing priorities and business units

• Establish design team rituals: design reviews, critiques, portfolio reviews, knowledge sharing

Product Partnership & Collaboration

• Partner with product and technical peers throughout product development lifecycle

• Ensure design is involved early in product strategy and roadmap planning, not just execution

• Collaborate on product vision, user needs definition, and strategic direction

• Participate in product planning discussions providing design perspective on feasibility and user impact

• Balance product priorities across multiple business units and stakeholder demands

• Advocate for user needs and design quality when business or technical pressures create tension

Design Process & Operations

• Establish design process that balances speed with quality in fast-paced news environment

• Create efficient workflows for design collaboration with product and engineering teams

• Build and maintain design systems that enable consistency and efficiency across properties

• Ensure design deliverables (wireframes, mockups, prototypes, specs) meet engineering needs

• Manage design tools and resources (Figma, prototyping tools, research tools, AI design tools)

• Establish design operations practices: file organization, version control, documentation standards

• Measure and improve design team productivity and impact

User Research & Validation

• Partner on user research efforts to inform product and design decisions

• Ensure design decisions are validated through research, testing, and data

• Use data and analytics to measure design impact and identify UX improvement opportunities

• Create frameworks for rapid user validation in fast-moving news environment

Stakeholder Management

• Present design work and rationale to senior leadership

• Navigate competing stakeholder priorities and design feedback diplomatically

• Educate stakeholders on UX principles and design process

• Manage design expectations and timelines realistically

• Advocate for user needs when stakeholder requests conflict with good UX

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• Typically 10+ years in UX/product design with 3-5 years in design leadership roles managing design teams

• Proven track record building and leading design teams (3+ designers) with demonstrated impact on product and business outcomes

• Strong portfolio showing strategic UX work for web and mobile products at scale

• Active user of AI design tools or interest in how AI transforms design practice

• Proven ability to establish design standards, systems, and quality bar across multiple products

• Experience partnering with product and engineering leadership as peer-level partner

• Experience in digital media, publishing, news, content platforms, or consumer products with complex information architectures

• Deep expertise across UX disciplines: user research, interaction design, information architecture, visual design, prototyping

• Exceptional stakeholder management: can influence product strategy and navigate organizational complexity

• Understanding of accessibility, performance, and technical constraints in design

• Experience designing for multiple platforms: responsive web, iOS, Android, emerging platforms

• Excellent communication and presentation skills: can articulate design rationale to executives and diverse audiences

• Regular, on-site attendance at the workplace a minimum of 3 days per week is an essential function of the position. Selected candidate must be able to reliably meet this requirement.

Design & Technical Skills

• Expert in modern design tools: Figma (required), prototyping tools, design systems tools

• Strong interaction design and information architecture skills for complex, content-heavy experiences

• Understanding of responsive design, mobile-first design, and cross-platform UX

• Ability to critique design work constructively and raise quality bar across team

• Knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design practices

• Understanding of web and mobile technologies well enough to discuss feasibility with engineering

• Familiarity with design QA and ensuring design implementation quality

NICE TO HAVE, BUT NOT A DEALBREAKER

• Experience at news organizations or real-time, content-heavy digital products

• Background building design teams from scratch or transforming design organizations

• Experience with design systems at scale (building, maintaining, evangelizing)

• Understanding of news editorial workflows and how design serves journalism

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We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.

Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay rate/range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is $160,000.00-230,000.00 annually. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, various benefits, including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents. Benefits for Union represented employees will be in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement.

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