Location: San Francisco, CA or Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organization supporting Wikipedia and other Wiki projects. We operate one of the world’s top ten websites and have global reach and impact. Technology and innovation is critical in our quest to support every human in sharing knowledge.
Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior UX Designer for ourContributorsteam.
Wikimedia Foundation aims to increase the participation of contributors on projects like Wikipedia. As a senior designer onContributorsteam, you will be responsible for editing experiences across these projects. You will be working with a set of talented designers to create and maintain these experiences.
Responsibilities
Design
Create experiences that go beyond good design into delighting users
Reduce, simplify, distill
See features through from ideas on paper to implementation
Use evaluative and generative research to inform your design decisions
Provide mentorship to designers on your team
Understand and improve design processes
Collaborate
Collaborate with research team in understanding the problem space
Interact with our communities from the beginning to end of your design process
Work with our growing team of designers to create reusable design patterns
Be an active part of the development team throughout the product process
Advocate
As a senior designer, be the voice of design
Distill complex concepts into simple, easy to understand talking points to effectively articulate your vision with your team and the communities
Requirements The right person is better than the right set of experiences, these are the traits we’ve identified make great additions to our team so far.
Have great instincts for making design decisions and be able to support your choices with research and data
Experience planning and facilitating evaluative research
Ability to tell stories that convey your design goals both internally to team members and to stakeholders
Have a creative vision of your own while being able to work within the bounds of what is possible, and imagine what can come next
5+ years of experience solving complex product design problems
Know when to switch from blue sky ideation to tactical thinking
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in related work experience
Demonstrated judgment skills to find solutions
Pluses
In addition to the basic skills needed for being successful, these skills could set you apart from the pack!
Ability to prototype your designs in working code.
Background in content publishing
Experience acting as researcher, both in-person and with remote participants
Have familiarity with Free and Open Source communities
Experience designing for multilingual audiences
Anything else that will let us know more about who you are that you would like to share, WMF project username, your blog, Instagram, dribble, Twitter, GitHub etc.
Benefits & Perks *
Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible families (yes, fully paid premiums!)
The Wellness Program provides reimbursement for mind, body and soul activities such as fitness memberships, massages, cooking classes and much more
The 401(k) retirement plan offers matched contributions at 4% of annual salary
Flexible and generous time off – vacation, sick and volunteer days, plus 19 paid holidays – including the last week of the year.
Family friendly! 100% paid new parent leave for seven weeks plus an additional five weeks for pregnancy, flexible options to phase back in after leave, fully equipped lactation room.
For those emergency moments – long and short term disability, life insurance (2x salary) and an employee assistance program
Pre-tax savings plans for health care, child care, elder care, public transportation and parking expenses
Telecommuting and flexible work schedules available
Appropriate fuel for thinking and coding (aka, a pantry full of treats) and monthly massages to help staff relax
Great colleagues – diverse staff and contractors speaking dozens of languages from around the world, fantastic intellectual discourse, mission-driven and intensely passionate people
for benefits eligible staff, benefits may vary by location
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