About Your Role:

As a Senior UX/UI Designer on Dotdash’s Publishing Platforms team, you will work with product managers, UX researchers, Jr. designers and engineers to design the internal tools our writers and editors use to craft content. This content helps millions of monthly readers answer questions, solve problems, and find inspiration on topics they deeply care about.

About Your Contributions:

- Serve as design lead in the prototyping, creation, and production of our suite of

internal tools 

-Partner with User Research to ensure that design concepts meet user expectations

- See designs through to fruition by collaborating directly with Research, Product and Engineering teams—ensuring quality and a consistent, premium visual experience

-Work iteratively to design, refine, and validate solutions; creating sketches, wireframes, mockups and prototypes

- Assess user interface challenges and come up with innovative design solutions that

meet business and user goals

- Conduct user tests and competitive analyses— collect, share, and convert findings

into tangible designs

- Define interaction models, user flows, and UI specifications, and communicate

scenarios and end-to-end experiences to stakeholders

- Maintain and own design system driving coherence and continuity

About You:

- 5+ years’ years in a design role at a digital publisher with a strong focus on user interface and user experience demonstrated by a strong portfolio

- A demonstrated understanding of design, usability, user testing and research best practices and standards

- Excellent conceptual and design skills, including typography, color, composition, visual hierarchy, data displays and interface design

- Up-to-date knowledge of trends and best practices in digital media and user experience design

- Extensive experience building and maintaining design systems

- Knowledge of standard UX software such as Figma, Adobe CS or equivalent is a must. 

- Editorial / Content tools design experience is required

- Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment, and handle multiple projects under tight deadlines throughout all parts of the product life cycle, from discovery to launch.

- Ability to communicate ideas and reasoning to non-technical and non-creative audiences

- Accept feedback gracefully and skillful in open collaboration with diverse groups

- Degree in Interactive Design, Communication Design, or related work experience

- Deep understanding of contemporary trends in web/app design and content management systems

- Understanding of Atomic Design methodology a plus

- Basic HTML, CSS and Javascript are a plus.

About Us:

For more than 20 years, Dotdash brands have been helping people find answers, solve problems, and get inspired. We are one of the top-20 largest content publishers on the Internet according to comScore, a leading Internet measurement company, and reach more than 30% of the U.S. population every month. Our brands collectively have won more than 20 industry awards in the last year alone and, most recently, Dotdash was named Publisher of the Year by Digiday, a leading industry publication. Our brands include Verywell, The Spruce, The Balance, Investopedia, Lifewire, TripSavvy, Byrdie, MyDomaine, Brides and ThoughtCo.

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