Senior UX Designer - Wikimedia Foundation

About the Role

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior UX Designer with a solid understanding of user experience and product development processes to work within a new multi-disciplinary product team focused on improving trust and safety. You will primarily work with the Reader Growth team, building software focused on ways of learning and engagement for new and casual readers of Wikipedia.

Note: Must be available for design, product, and engineering team meetings and synchronous collaboration from 14:00 UTC to 18:00 UTC (10:00-14:00 ET / 7:00-11:00 PT).

Responsibilities

• Reduce complexity to create simple, delightful experiences for our users.
• Create prototypes and run experiments to iteratively test your hypotheses.
• Use and evolve our design system and guidelines to create new features from ideas on paper to implementation.
• Apply accessibility standards and guidelines to your designs.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to create product plans and maintain product design processes.
• Distill complex concepts into easy-to-understand talking points to engage with readers and communities throughout the design process.

Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience contributing on design teams.
• Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree, or equivalent in related work experience.
• Ability to communicate design goals and processes clearly and concisely to team members and stakeholders.
• Experience providing constructive feedback to other designers and welcoming feedback from others.
• Experienced in conducting research, as well as collaborating with UX researchers, to build a deeper understanding of audience behaviors.
• Ability to generate ideas for the future as well as think tactically about how to deliver work in the present.
• Self-motivated, with a drive to evolve skills and share learnings with others.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in content consumption, publishing, education, or news.
• Experience acting as a researcher, both in-person and with remote participants.
• Familiarity with Free Knowledge and/or Open Source communities.
• Ability to speak more than one language.

About the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.