Lead Product Designer

Job Description:

Lead Product Designer

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About Our Organization:

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world's largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America's largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron's, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor's Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

About the Team:Our Technology team drives the evolution of our Technology, Engineering, Data, Product and User Experience functions. With a keen focus on delivering cutting-edge solutions, we shape the digital landscape for our customers, readers, and users. From revolutionizing visuals to optimizing tools and harnessing the power of data, mobile, video, and social platforms, our team is committed to providing a seamless and immersive experience across all touchpoints. Collaborating closely with our newsrooms and strategic partners, we spearhead the development of groundbreaking products and technologies.About the Role:

We are looking for a Lead Product Designer to work with the Barron's Group Product Design team.

You will play a critical role in shaping the user experience and overall design strategy for products within the Barron's Group - including Barron's and MarketWatch. You will be responsible for crafting the visual and interaction design to collaborating with cross-functional teams to bring the product vision to life including SMEs, Editorial, Design, Engineering, Marketing, Research, and Product.

You will create experiences that engage and appeal to customers, enhance our usability and improve the user experience through the use of imagery, color, shapes, typography, and form, ensuring our experiences appear trustworthy, informative and true to our brand.

Your expertise should bring an understanding of component based design and design systems to contribute to a scalable, sustainable approach that enables speed to market, evolution, and optimization.

The Lead Product Designer will report to the Product Design Director, Barron's Group.

You Will:

• Collaborate with product managers and others to define the design vision and ensure the design aligns with business goals and product roadmaps
• Help prioritize design initiatives and feature sets based on user needs, business impact and technical feasibility, ensuring we meet requirements for accessibility
• Explore and validate solutions by creating prototypes and interactive designs that demonstrate the functionality and flow of the product, actively participating in user testing
• Bring industry best practices and maintain consistency in visual design and adherence to brand guidelines across all touchpoints.
• Work closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure seamless execution of product designs. Act as a bridge between design and engineering, ensuring designs are technically feasible and implemented correctly.
• Be able to function as a UX lead for a project, independently organize and deliver on small to large size projects, including detailed execution, approvals and stakeholder acceptance.
• Contribute to the creation of visual patterns in our design system
• Use analytics, user feedback, and testing data to inform design decisions and optimize the user experience.
• Ensure that design specifications and assets are properly documented and handed off to the development team. Provide guidance on how to implement designs to ensure a high-quality final product.

You Have:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 5-7 years experience in a similar role
• Strong grasp of UI, HCI and UX principles and expertise in visual design, typography, color theory and layout
• Understanding of best practices for mobile, web-based and responsive design
• Proficient in design and prototyping tools like Figma
• Experience working with component based design and Design Systems, and Agile
• A strong portfolio that demonstrates your experience and UX skills, illustrating step by step solutions for features
• Ability to lead design initiatives and mentor junior designers.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with product managers, engineers, and other teams

Our Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plans
• Paid Time Off
• Retirement Plans
• Comprehensive Insurance Plans
• Lifestyle programs & Wellness Resources
• Education Benefits
• Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support
• Commuter Transit Program
• Subscription Discounts
• Employee Referral Program

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Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at talentresourceteam@dowjones.com. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.

Business Area:

Dow Jones - Technology

Job Category:

Software Product Engineering

Union Status:

Union role

Pay Range: $135,000 - $155,000

We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.

For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..