Head of Design, Yahoo Mail

About the role

We are seeking a Head of Design (Senior Director) to lead Yahoo Mail's global design organization. In this role, you will own the end-to-end design vision, architectural strategy, and system optimization across Mail's entire product surface. You will lead an integrated team of approximately 20 designers-including design managers-embedded across cross-functional squads spanning Revenue & Growth, Core Experience, and Utilities (Calendar, Planner, and more). You will operate as a strategic peer and equal partner alongside Product, Engineering, and Analytics leadership. You will champion an environment that treats AI as a fundamental layer for product innovation and operational efficiency, orchestrating how AI-native experiences and intelligent agentic workflows materialize safely and beautifully at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design Vision & Corporate Strategy: Formulate and drive an enterprise-wide design vision that explicitly transforms user needs into business drivers; mandate, govern, and scale cross-platform design systems across mobile (iOS/Android) and web surfaces.
• Strategic Executive Partnership: Collaborate as a peer with the GM, VP of Product, VP of Revenue, Head of Analytics, and SVP of Engineering to translate corporate business strategy into definitive product roadmaps and platform-wide optimization cycles.
• AI-Augmented Experience Architecture: Architect the UX paradigms for AI-native consumer journeys within Yahoo Mail, specifying structural patterns for conversational interfaces, proactive agentic workflows, and real-time intelligent data visualizations.
• Central Leverage Integration: Align Yahoo Mail's local design strategies with central Yahoo Design systems to maximize engineering and branding leverage, while fiercely protecting Yahoo Mail's business unit priorities.

Requirements

• 15+ years of professional product design experience, with documented success guiding high-volume consumer products operating at a scale of millions of daily active users.
• 5+ years of formal management experience leading multi-tiered design teams of 15+ total personnel, including direct experience managing, coaching, and scaling professional design managers.
• Proven track record designing, launching, and governing AI-powered product features, recommendation models, or conversational interfaces in a production environment.
• Demonstrated experience deploying and managing AI-augmented design systems or generative workflow tools at an organizational tier to increase asset generation speed and prototype velocity.
• Extensive portfolio demonstrating advanced cross-platform design architecture across web, iOS, and Android ecosystems, with an emphasis on seamless data synchronization.
• Advanced business acumen and data proficiency, including experience designing user interfaces tailored explicitly to consumer business monetization funnels (advertising, subscriptions, or transactional commerce).
• Exceptional communication, corporate diplomacy, and negotiation skills, with verified experience advocating for design capital and strategy before executive leadership and C-suite stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or a closely related field, or equivalent practical experience verified through a robust history of professional enterprise leadership.
• Direct experience with advanced prompt engineering frameworks, s

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Additional Information

Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with hundreds of millions of users. It's the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. With its beautiful design and lightning fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever.

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