Principal Interaction Designer, Design Tools at Yahoo · United States · Joined
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Principal Interaction Designer, Design Tools
Yahoo · United States · Just now · 0 applicants
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Pay
$136k–$284kListed
Workplace
Remote
Job type
Full-time
Level
Lead
Team: Central Foundations · Source: jobright · Posted by joined-scrapper
About the role
Yahoo seeks a Principal Interaction Designer to design and build production-ready interactive tools for its Central Foundations team, combining deep interaction design craft with hands-on React and TypeScript engineering. The role focuses on raising standards for quality, accessibility, and performance across internal creative and engineering tools.
What you’ll do
Design and build intuitive, production-ready interactions and visual experiences
Partner with internal teams to iterate on creative and engineering tools
Raise standards for quality, accessibility, and performance
Move from problem framing to exploration, prototype, and polished UI
Participate in design critiques and code reviews
Build with and contribute to design systems
What you’ll need
8+ years of relevant experience
Proven track record of shipping interactive tools such as editors, creative software, or complex internal platforms
Hands-on experience building interactive UI components with React and TypeScript in a production environment
Strong command of typography, layout, color, spacing, and hierarchy with pixel-level attention to detail
Deep understanding of motion, micro-interactions, and visual feedback
Clickable portfolio or demo showing live interactive web applications or design tools you designed and built
Original job description
Yahoo is building internal creative and engineering tools for its Central Foundations team. The Principal Interaction Designer will design and build intuitive, production-ready interactions and visual experiences, partnering with internal teams to iterate on the tools and raise standards for quality, accessibility, and performance.You are an engineer with…