Job Description
Title: Lead UX Designer (Contract – 6 Month)
Location: Remote
Summary
Background Information
The Product design team at the Wikimedia Foundation provides design support to many product teams and initiatives in order to meet our annual and long-term goals. From September 2023 to March 2024, the team will have two of their three design managers out on parental leave. Their management duties will be covered by senior IC members of the team, but some of their design deliverables of these ICs will require the support of a Senior UX designer during these months.
Statement of Purpose
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Product Design team is looking for an experienced UX Designer to support other designers in the team on a temporary basis for a period of 6 months. This is a fully remote position with an initial 2 month trial period.
Scope of Work
The designer will work on a variety of different types of design tasks, defined by the needs of the product team and the Principal Designer they are supporting at the time. They will be required to join daily team meetings, conducted remotely, and share their design work with the design team for critique on a regular basis.
Responsibilities
- 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 designers, 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.
Skills
- 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 and a Bachelor’s degree and/or Masters degree, or equivalent in related work experience