Monday, November 14, 2016

Art Director DJ Media Dow Jones New York

Job Description: • 2-minute read •
Dow Jones is looking for an experienced product designer to provide project support within the Digital Design and UX team. In this position you will be collaborating with and working alongside business stakeholders, product managers, and front-end developers to define the user experience of MarketWatch, Barron’s, Financial News, Mansion Global of websites, apps and off-platform products. Ultimately you will be helping shape the future of how we deliver news to our customers.
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Responsibilities

Work within the inhouse Design and UX team to define interactive experiences within Dow Jones Media Group and its network of online properties

Develop and help implement style guides, pattern libraries and reusable design systems

Rapidly produce designs and innovate within the fast-paced environment, whilst maintaining bigger picture design and brand consistency

Strong understanding of best-practices as it applies to online content-creation and delivery at industrial size and proportion

Work closely with design technologists to build prototypes that represent both the visual identity and interaction model required to test and evolve products for user and internal testing

Work with Information Architects to design, observe, and analyze usability studies

Work closely with IAs, Design Technologists, and back-end engineers to implement and deliver final products

Work with the team to continually build an online library of all UI elements following our various product design languages – maintained and centralized.

Facilitate design communication across a multidisciplinary team throughout each phase of a project

Work closely with cross-functional staff to deliver against project goals

Qualifications

5+ years experience designing user-interfaces for content-rich website and apps

Familiar with interaction design concepts, practices, and procedures

Familiar with Information Architecture best practices

Possess a solid working understanding of user-experience design principles

Demonstrable understanding of user-experience design, information hierarchy, user-flow, and typography

Ability to prioritize and manage work, adhering to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment

Be a self-starter; able to interact with and influence senior level management

Ability to develop new approaches to complex design problems and convey these designs in the form of presentations, prototypes, and design specifications

A self-starter that is able to collaborate actively with others in a cross-functional team

Expertise in working with mobile optimized and responsive websites

Expertise in creating features for customization and personalization

Technical Skills

Professional-level knowledge of industry standard Web design software (Sketch, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Omnigraffle or other wireframe software)

Knowledge of prototyping software such as InVision, Atomic or similar

Solid grasp of latest Web and App design principles

Solid understanding of current Web technologies (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript)
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