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Sr. User Interface Designer
Gannett
Mc Lean, VA, United States
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Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) is an innovative, digitally focused media and marketing solutions company committed to strengthening communities across our network. With an unmatched local-to-national reach, Gannett touches the lives of more than 110 million people monthly with our Pulitzer-Prize winning content, consumer experiences and benefits, and advertiser products and services. Gannett brands include USA TODAY NETWORK with the iconic USA TODAY and more than 100 local media brands, digital marketing services companies ReachLocal and SweetIQ, and U.K. media company Newsquest.
The USA TODAY NETWORK is looking for a talented Sr. UI Designer to play a key role in helping conceptualize and evolve design solutions. In addition to strong visual and interaction skills, you must be able to juggle multiple project or product responsibilities, and bring the voice-of-the-customer to life in every engagement.
This role goes far beyond improving news sites. We’re transforming the ways in which information is gathered, experienced and shared. Imagine a world where reading, watching and listening are not passive acts — where the distance between journalist and consumer evaporates.
Through our apps, websites, content verticals and events, the USATODAY NETWORK taps into the zeitgeist of neighborhoods and communities, in ways no other American media brand can. We are dedicated to building stronger communities. To do that, we inform, equip and empower people: fostering deep and vital connections between the members of our communities and the world around them.
Key responsibilities:
• Create smart and engaging user interfaces for web and mobile applications
• Work collaboratively as part of a cross- functional team that includes customers, product managers, software engineers, testers and internal stakeholders
• Recommend design solutions that address business goals and customer needs
• Facilitate brainstorming sessions with stakeholder teams
• Translate the company brand into user interface design, ensuring designs fit into larger
• design systems
• Effectively communicate conceptual ideas and design rationale
• Juggle multiple projects while effectively managing timelines and expectations
• Participate in the development process from definition through design, build, test, and release
• Build prototypes using any method (whiteboard, paper, Sketch) to pixel-perfecthi-fidelity design
• Ensure consistency in brand guidelines, interactions and layout of design solutions across multiple platforms and devices
Apply if you have:
• Strong organizational skills
• Self-motivated, inquisitive
• Desire to stay ahead of emerging trends
• Ability to manage time and balance multiple projects
• Strong sense of collaboration; thrives in iterative, cross-disciplinary environment
• Able to communicate clearly and effectively with excellent interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Comfort trying new things; fail quickly to get to optimal solution
• Ability to articulate and justify design decisions
Experience with:
• Design software packages (Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Invision)
• Mircosoft Office