Director, Product Design

Overview Of The Company

Fox 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.

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 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.

• 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

• Lead UX design team supporting all FOX News Media digital properties
• Help the design team develop AI literacy and AI‑native design workflows
• Stay 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

• 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

• 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

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