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Design Director
Dow Jones
New York, NY, United States
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Design Director, WSJ
Job Description:
The Wall Street Journal is looking for a Design Director to join the WSJ Product Design and UX team. Like all our product and ux designers, your responsibility is to the user. You will empathize with and thoroughly understand the goals, desires and preferences of the target users. You’ll use this knowledge to inform concepts and innovative solutions across products and projects. In this position you will be collaborating with and working alongside product managers, engineers, editors, interactive graphics and business stakeholders to define the user experience and design of our websites. Ultimately you will be responsible for signing off on every design and ui aspect of WSJ.com and our WSJ PRO websites.
Core Responsibilities
• Work within the in-house Product Design and UX team to define interactive experiences within WSJ and its network of digital products
• Work closely with product managers, engineers and editors to implement and deliver final products
• Further develop and help implement the WSJ design language system
• Rapidly produce designs and innovate within the fast-paced environment, whilst maintaining bigger picture design and brand consistency
• Ensure a consistent user experience, aesthetic voice and high level of quality in every web product WSJ designs
• Work with our UX designers to observe, and analyze usability studies
• Facilitate design communication across a multidisciplinary team throughout each phase of a project
• Develop new approaches to complex design problems and convey these designs in the form of presentations, prototypes, and design specifications
• Work closely with cross-functional staff and departments such as Advertising, Sales, Innovation, Interactives and Marketing to deliver against project goals
• Prioritize and manage work, adhering to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment
Qualifications
• 10+ years experience designing user-interfaces for content-rich websites and apps
• Familiar with digital product design best practices and procedures
• Familiar with user experience best practices and procedures
• Familiar with design thinking best practices and procedures
• Possess a solid understanding of user-experience design principles
• Demonstrable understanding of user-experience design, information hierarchy, user-flow, and typography
• Be a self-starter; able to interact with and influence senior level management
• Expertise in working with mobile optimized and responsive websites
• Expertise in creating features for customization and personalization
Technical Skills
• Professional-level knowledge of industry standard Web design software (Sketch, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Omnigraffle or other wireframe software)
• Knowledge of prototyping software such as InVision, Atomic or similar
• Solid grasp of latest Web and App design principles
• Solid understanding of current Web technologies (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript)
Applications should include a resume and cover letter.
Company
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 125 years and today has one of the world’s largest news gathering operations globally. It produces leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America’s largest newspaper by paid circulation; Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Financial News, DJX, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, and Dow Jones VentureSource.Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).
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