Job Description:

Senior User Experience Designer

About us:

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: N)

About the Role:

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. You have experience with user-centric design and the tools and processes that make it happen.

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. This will be a very collaborative role requiring partnerships with SMEs, Editorial, UX Architecture, Technology, Research, and Product, reporting to the Senior UX Manager.

You Will:

• Bring industry best practices and visual design principle to your solutions
• Create solutions that meet both customer needs and business objectives
• Collaborate with UX Architects on optimizing the user flow and overall experience
• Create visual concepts that communicate the overall vision and approach for a project, developing the overall look and feel and delivering final designs
• Optimize experiences by strategically implementing images, colors, fonts, and other elements in order to enhance a design or interaction, and engage users.
• Contribute to the creation of visual patterns in our design system
• Maintain brand consistency while designing new products and experiences
• Explore and validate solutions by creating prototypes for and actively participating in user testing
• Incorporate recommendations and analysis from our Customer Insights and UX Research teams
• Coordinate on ensuring we meet requirements for accessibility
• Independently deliver on projects and work with others on teams
• Last but never least, serve as an advocate for our readers, keeping their needs at the heart of our digital solution

You Have:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• +4 years experience in a similar role
• Strong grasp of UI, HCI and UX principles
• Understanding of best practices for mobile, web-based and responsive design
• Experience with component-based design
• Experience working with Design Systems
• Experience working with Agile
• Experience working with Figma
• A strong portfolio that demonstrates your experience and UX skills, illustrating step by step solutions for features

Nice to have

• Experience designing News or Financial Services
• Previous work on subscription and membership flows
• Familiarity with WCAG accessibility standards and compliance

Our Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plans for you and your family (paid by Dow Jones)
• Extra paid Time Off (30 days of holidays/year)
• Possibility to work remotely for 3 months/year (desplazamiento program) or one week of remote work per quarter
• Meal benefit with Pluxee (171€/month on top of your salary)
• Retirement Plans (Dow Jones will pay 2% of a members Pensionable Salary and match employee contribution up to a maximum of 3 %).
• Comprehensive Insurance Plans
• Well-being Resources (200 USD allowance per quarter, Classpass, etc.)
• Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support
• Subscription Discounts
• Employee Referral Program

#LI-hybrid

This is a hybrid remote/in-office role, based in Barcelona.

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/Disabled/Vets. We strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals, including women, people with disabilities, and those from underrepresented groups. 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 [email protected]. 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:

Non-Union role