Full-Time Lead UX Designer

Lead UX Designer - iOS

SummaryThe Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Lead UX Designer to work within our Apps team, supporting the Wikipedia iOS app and selected features on the Android app.

Responsibilities

• Reduce complexity to create simple, delightful experiences for our users.
• Create prototypes and run experiments to iteratively test your hypotheses.
• Use and evolve our design system and guidelines, to create new features from ideas on paper to implementation.
• Apply accessibility standards and Human Interface Guidelines to your designs.
• Collaborate with designers, design managers, product managers and engineers to create product plans and maintain product design processes.
• Distill complex concepts into easy to understand talking points to engage with our readers and communities throughout the design process.
• Work actively with other leaders on product and design to help improve tactical and operational processes.
• Support the growth of colleagues by mentoring others within the team.

Skills and experience

• 5+ years of experience designing for native mobile apps
• 8+ years of experience contributing on design teams
• Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree, or equivalent in related work experience
• Experience mentoring other designers on design whilst welcoming feedback from others
• Solid experience using evaluative and generative research methods
• Strong creative vision and ability to switch easily from blue sky ideation to tactical thinking
• Share work and ideas beyond their own team and enjoy engaging with the global design community

Additionally

• Background in content consumption, publishing, education, or news
• Experience acting as a researcher, both in-person and with remote participants
• Experience designing for and testing with different audiences (internationalization/localization)
• Familiarity with Free Knowledge and/or Open Source communities
• Speak more than one of the nearly 300 languages of the users you’ll be designing for

Team requirements

• Available for team meetings and synchronous work between 2:00 PM UTC and 7:00 PM UTC

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