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About the role
Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Experience: 8+ years of relevant experience. Proven track record of shipping interactive tools that users rely on (e.g., editors, design/creative software, canvas tools, or complex internal platforms)
- Technical Proficiency: Strong, hands-on experience building the interactive UI components you design using modern React and TypeScript in a production environment
- Visual Design Fundamentals : Strong command of typography, layout, color, spacing, and hierarchy, with attention to detail that holds up at the pixel level
- Interaction & Motion Craft: Deep understanding of motion, micro-interactions, and visual feedback, with the ability to articulate why specific interaction patterns succeed or fail
- Design Process: Comfortable moving from problem framing to exploration, prototype, and polished UI, and able to clearly explain the reasoning and tradeoffs behind design decisions
- Design Systems: Demonstrated experience building with or contributing to design systems, using systemic constraints to build coherent, scalable interfaces
More about this role
Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.
Yahoo’s Central Foundations team owns the surface where our designers and engineers do their work—where AI-assisted generation meets direct manipulation, producing production-ready code. Every interaction on our platform must feel trustworthy, fast, and precise. We are building the next generation of creative and engineering tooling, ensuring our internal teams have powerful, intuitive, and highly responsive workflows to ship world-class digital experiences. We believe great tools are designed, not just built, and we hold our own product to the same craft standard as the work it produces.
You are an engineer with a deep passion for interaction design, craft, and toolmaking. You sweat the details of how software feels—from micro-interactions and motion to panel layouts and keyboard navigation—and you have the technical depth to build and ship those experiences yourself. You have a trained visual...
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