Director of Product Design

Dotdash Meredith; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Dotdash Meredith is seeking a Director of Product Design to enhance user engagement for the PEOPLE brand. This hybrid role involves design leadership, user experience, and collaboration across teams to create impactful web products. Candidates should have extensive experience in design and the ability to manage and mentor a team.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Pension plan

Paid paternity leave

Tuition assistance

Vision insurance

Child care support

Disability insurance

Student loan assistance

Paid maternity leave

401(k)

Qualifications

• 10+ years as a designer with 2-5 years leading design of a digital product.
• Strong user experience design skills including user flows and interaction design.
• Experience in building interactive prototypes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design team, ensuring high-level execution across products.
• Produce user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and specifications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to validate design solutions.

Skills

User experience design

Wireframing

Interaction design

Prototyping

Visual design

Education

Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent education

Tools

Figma

Adobe Suite

Job description

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Base pay range

$130,000.00/yr - $150,000.00/yr

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Dotdash Meredith | Decision Making, Inspiration, Iconic Brands

Dotdash Meredith is the largest digital and print publisher in America. From mobile to magazines, nearly 200 million people trust us to help them make decisions, take action, and find inspiration. Dotdash Meredith’s over 40 iconic brands include PEOPLE, Allrecipes, Better Homes & Gardens, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, Parents, & REAL SIMPLE.

Hybrid 3x a week- NYC

In-office Expectations: This position is hybrid in-office, with the ability to work remotely for up to 2 days per week.

We are looking for a Director of Product Design to help define a brand new experience for one of our most important brands, People. In this role you will work closely with our Creative Director, Editorial Team, and Product and Engineering to craft an experience that engages and delights our audience on a daily basis.

As a Director of Product Design at Dotdash Meredith you will collaborate with business stakeholders and user research teams to understand problems and recognize opportunities, and work directly with other designers, product managers and software developers to build web products that solve them.

To be successful in this role, we'd expect you to:

• Thoroughly understand the wants and needs of our users, and participate in the discovery and definition of problems and solutions that come from those needs. .
• Translate user needs and business requirements into concrete ideas, wireframes, and mockups.
• Build interactive prototypes suitable for validating design decisions with users.
• Collaborate with the creative team and brand stakeholders to develop and maintain the visual language of our product.
• Document design guidelines, share knowledge, and collaborate with the engineering team to ensure products ship on time and as designed.
• Champion and promote design thinking, research, and process across the organization.

II. Essential Job Functions

20% - Design Team Leadership and Mentorship

• Ensure a constant high-level of execution across the products you work with.
• Manage your team’s workflow and set clear, realistic, action-oriented goals to ensure their success.
• Develop effective, growth-centered mentor relationships with the UX Designers on their team.

50% - Product User Experience Design

• Use business requirements, user stories, and data to produce user flows, wireframes, prototypes, high fidelity mockups, and rigorous user interface specifications

30% - Collaborate with Design, Product, and Engineering teams

• Participate in and lead brainstorming and critique sessions that foster big-picture thinking while identifying opportunities to raise the bar on the details
• Collaborate across teams to understand opportunities, develop potential solutions, and test ideas, validate assumptions
• Present design solutions and build consensus among a broad range of stakeholders
• Work closely with our engineering team to ensure the designs are executed at the highest level of fidelity and craft.

III. Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements | All must be met to be considered.

Education: Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent education and experience

Experience: 2-5 years leading design of a digital product, 10+ years as a designer

Specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong user experience design skills including user flows, wireframing, and interaction design
• Strong visual design skills, especially visual interface and typography
• Experience building interactive prototypes suitable for validating design decisions with users
• 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 Figma, Adobe Suite, etc. Basic HTML and CSS skills are a big plus
• Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and stakeholders distributed across the world.
• Self-motivated and highly-organized
• Strong attention to detail

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Design and Product Management

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet and Technology, Information and Media

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Pension plan

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