UX Designer, Prototyping at Meredith Corporation in Liberty, New York

Job Description:

Job TitleUX Designer, Prototyping

Job Description
The UX Design team at Meredith Digital defines the consumer experience for premium brands such as People, Entertainment Weekly, Allrecipes, Real Simple, Martha Stewart, and many more. We are building engaging experiences that excite users and amplify the voice of our brands.

We are looking for a User Experience Designer to help define a site experience and feature set that enables that vision across our portfolio of sites. In this role you will craft simple, functional, and elegant experience design solutions based on a deep and empathetic understanding of our user's needs. You must be collaborative in your approach to internal stakeholders, while simultaneously and vigorously championing the consumer experience.

We are specifically looking for someone with experience building interactive prototypes suitable for validating design decisions with users.

As a User Experience designer at Meredith you will be responsible for collaborating on user research, translating business requirements into concrete ideas, and refining and iterating on those ideas for delivering to engineering teams. You will design the overall functionality of our products and iterate upon it to ensure a great user experience.

Responsibilities
- Thoroughly understand the wants and needs of our users.
- Translate user needs and business requirements into concrete ideas, wireframes, and mockups.
- Build interactive prototypes suitable for validating design decisions with users.
- Produce detailed design documentation for our engineering team and collaborate with them to ensure the highest quality experience possible ships.

II. Essential Job Functions
Weight %
Accountabilities, Actions and Expected Measurable Results
80%
User Experience Design
- Use business requirements, user stories, and data to produce user flows, wireframes, prototypes, high fidelity mockups, and rigorous user interface specifications
10%
Collaborate with Design and Product teams
- Partner with UX researchers to validate assumptions, test designs, and understand user data
- Present design solutions and build consensus among a broad range of stakeholders
- Participate in and lead brainstorming and critique sessions that foster big-picture thinking while identifying opportunities to raise the bar on the details
10%
Process Management
- Collaborate with broader UX Team to develop and implement best practices
100%

III. Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements | All must be met to be considered.
Education:
Bachelor's degree, or equivalent education and experience
Experience:
- 5 or more years as a UX Designer for mass-market products available on iOS, Android, responsive web and desktop
Specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Strong user experience skills including user research, usability testing, and interaction design
- Experience designing, planning, and building interactive prototypes suitable for validating design decisions with users
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Familiarity with atomic design methodology and an interest in the challenges that come with building and maintaining design systems
- Expertise in UX software such as Sketch, Axure, etc. Basic HTML and CSS skills are a big plus
- A solid grasp of user-centered design and testing methodologies, subsystems, and usability and accessibility concerns
- Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and stakeholders distributed across the country

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It is the policy of Meredith to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Meredith will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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