[Hiring] Senior UX Designer @Wikimedia Foundation

Role Description

The Product Design team 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 that will be focused on improving trust and safety. You will be influential in creating and developing the user experience, feeding directly into the product strategy for your product team.

For this role, you will primarily be working with the Reader Growth team, software focused on ways of learning and engagement for new and casual readers of Wikipedia.

You will be responsible for:

• 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 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.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Bachelor's degree and/or Masters degree, or equivalent in related work experience.

Requirements

• Attendance of mandatory design team meetings weekly on:
• Mondays from 14:00-15:00 UTC (10:00-11:00 ET / 7:00-8:00 PT)
• Tuesdays from 14:30-16:00 UTC (10:30-12:00 ET / 7:30-9:00 PT)
• Thursdays from 14:00-15:30 UTC (10:00-11:30 ET / 7:00-8:30 PT)
• Availability for team meetings and synchronous collaboration with primary product team from 14:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC (10:00-14:00 ET / 7:00-11:00 PT)

Benefits

• Competitive, equitable salaries based on skills, experience, and location.
• Anticipated annual pay range for applicants based within the United States is US$ 116,633 to US$ 181,243.
• For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire.

Company Description

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely.

• We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content.
• Support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible.
• Advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.
• As an equal opportunity employer, we value having a diverse workforce and continuously strive to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace.
• The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based in 40+ countries.