Senior UX Designer
Job description
Senior UX Designer on the Product Design team, working primarily with the Reader Growth team on software focused on learning and engagement for new and casual readers of Wikipedia. The role involves creating and developing the user experience and feeding into product strategy for the product team.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Reducing complexity to create simple, delightful experiences for our users.
- Creating prototypes and running experiments to iteratively test your hypotheses.
- Using and evolving our design system and guidelines, to create new features from ideas on paper to implementation.
- Applying accessibility standards and guidelines to your designs.
- Collaborating with product managers and engineers to create product plans and maintain product design processes.
- Distilling complex concepts into easy to understand talking points to engage with our readers and communities throughout the design process.
What we're looking for
- Can communicate their design goals and processes clearly and concisely to other team members and stakeholders.
- Provides constructive feedback to other designers and welcomes feedback from others.
- Experienced in conducting research, as well as collaborating with UX researchers, to build a deeper understanding of audience behaviours.
- Is able to generate ideas for the future as well as think tactically about how to deliver work in the present.
- Is self-motivated and seeks to evolve their skills and share what they've learnt with others.
- 5+ years of experience contributing on design teams.
- Bachelor's degree and/or Masters degree, or equivalent in related work experience
- Must be available for design, product and engineering team meetings and synchronous collaboration from 14:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC (10:00-14:00 ET / 7:00-11:00 PT)
- Attendance of mandatory design team meetings weekly on Mondays from 14:00-15:00 UTC, Tuesdays from 14:30-16:00 UTC, and Thursdays from 14:00-15:30 UTC
Nice to have
- Background in content consumption, publishing, education, or news
- Experience acting as a researcher, both in-person and with remote participants
- Have familiarity with Free Knowledge and/or Open Source communities
- Speak more than one of the nearly 300 languages of the users you'll be designing for
Your team
Product Design team
A multi-disciplinary product team focused on improving trust and safety; the role primarily works with the Reader Growth team, software focused on ways of learning and engagement for new and casual readers of Wikipedia.
Apply
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About Wikimedia Foundation
The nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.
Mission
A world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
Key facts
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Operates one of the world's top five websites
- Relies on donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15
- Receives donations through institutional grants and gifts
- United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA
- Remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based in 40+ countries