Senior Design Engineer, Content Production Technology

NPR is a mission-driven multimedia organization producing award-winning news, information, and music programming, committed to diversity, inclusion, and social responsibility. The organization values integrity, ethical standards, and legal compliance.

Location: Remote (US)

Salary: $125,646.49–$140,046.59 USD

Responsibilities

• Design-to-Engineering Translation: Bridge the gap between product design and engineering execution by translating high-level product strategy into clean, component-based wireframes and technical user experience pathways.
• Rapid Prototyping: Build functional, high-fidelity interactive code prototypes to validate design concepts with content creators and stakeholders before final development.
• Front-End Integration: Write production-ready front-end code, establishing standard styling patterns and providing immediate technical design resolutions to developers to optimize development cycles.
• Workflow Optimization: Embed deeply within the Nexus and Grove CMS ecosystems, engineering faster, highly efficient publishing workflows customized to our editorial workflows.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner directly with Product Managers, UX Designers, and engineering teams to co-develop functional requirements that maximize platform usability.
• Design Cohort Engagement: Actively participate in NPR's broader design cohort, collaborating with specialists from NPR’s Product and Audience Technology (PAT) teams to scale design best practices.
• Editorial & Creative Alignment: Work closely with NPR Editorial, Programming, and Music teams to maintain a deep operational understanding of publishing, distribution, and audience engagement requirements.
• User Advocacy: Champion intuitive usability for both internal content creators and external public media audiences, ensuring that development paths prioritize user needs over technical convenience.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working in a hybrid UX Engineering, Design Technology, or Front-End Development role.
• Demonstrated portfolio of designing user-centered digital systems and publishing products at scale.
• Proven technical experience translating abstract design concepts into structured front-end development requirements.
• Excellent cross-functional communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of building alignment across editorial, design, and engineering cohorts.
• Strong technical aptitude, including the ability to actively participate in systems architecture, development tradeoff discussions, and release planning.
• Experience operating within digital media, journalism, or highly content-rich digital ecosystems.

Benefits

• NPR provides comprehensive benefits for employees and dependents. Regular, full-time employees scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week are eligible to enroll in NPR’s benefits options. Benefits include access to health and wellness, paid time off, and financial well-being. Plan options include medical, dental, vision, life/ accidental death and dismemberment, long-term disability, short-term disability, and voluntary retirement savings.

Additional Information

• This is a union-represented role covered under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement with NABET-CWA DMU.