Description
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Senior User Experience Designer
About us:
Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world's largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America's largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron's, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor's Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: N)
About the Role:
You will create experiences that engage and appeal to customers, enhance our usability and improve the user experience through the use of imagery, color, shapes, typography, and form, ensuring our experiences appear trustworthy, informative and true to our brand. You have experience with user-centric design and the tools and processes that make it happen.
Your expertise should bring an understanding of component-based design and design systems to contribute to a scalable, sustainable approach that enables speed to market, evolution, and optimization. This will be a very collaborative role requiring partnerships with SMEs, Editorial, UX Architecture, Technology, Research, and Product, reporting to the Senior UX Manager.
You Will:
1. Bring industry best practices and visual design principle to your solutions
2. Create solutions that meet both customer needs and business objectives
3. Collaborate with UX Architects on optimizing the user flow and overall experience
4. Create visual concepts that communicate the overall vision and approach for a project, developing the overall look and feel and delivering final designs
5. Optimize experiences by strategically implementing images, colors, fonts, and other elements in order to enhance a design or interaction, and engage users.
6. Contribute to the creation of visual patterns in our design system
7. Maintain brand consistency while designing new products and experiences
8. Explore and validate solutions by creating prototypes for and actively participating in user testing
9. Incorporate recommendations and analysis from our Customer Insights and UX Research teams
10. Coordinate on ensuring we meet requirements for accessibility
11. Independently deliver on projects and work with others on teams
12. Last but never least, serve as an advocate for our readers, keeping their needs at the heart of our digital solution
You Have:
13. Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
14. +4 years experience in a similar role
15. Strong grasp of UI, HCI and UX principles
16. Understanding of best practices for mobile, web-based and responsive design
17. Experience with component-based design
18. Experience working with Design Systems
19. Experience working with Agile
20. Experience working with Figma
21. A strong portfolio that demonstrates your experience and UX skills, illustrating step by step solutions for features
Nice to have
22. Experience designing News or Financial Services
23. Previous work on subscription and membership flows
24. Familiarity with WCAG accessibility standards and compliance
Our Benefits
25. Comprehensive Healthcare Plans for you and your family (paid by Dow Jones)
26. Extra paid Time Off (30 days of holidays/year)
27. Possibility to work remotely for 3 months/year (desplazamiento program) or one week of remote work per quarter
28. Meal benefit with Pluxee (171€/month on top of your salary)
29. Retirement Plans (Dow Jones will pay 2% of a members Pensionable Salary and match employee contribution up to a maximum of 3 %).
30. Comprehensive Insurance Plans
31. Well-being Resources (200 USD allowance per quarter, Classpass, etc.)
32. Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support
33. Subscription Discounts
34. Employee Referral Program
#LI-hybrid
This is a hybrid remote/in-office role, based in Barcelona.
Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. EEO/Disabled/Vets. We strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals, including women, people with disabilities, and those from underrepresented groups. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process.