Senior UX Designer

wikimedia; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior UX Designer to join a new multi-disciplinary product team focused on improving trust and safety for Wikipedia readers. You will influence user experience and feed into product strategy, collaborating with the Reader Growth team and engineers.

You will participate in regular design team meetings and work asynchronously across time zones. The role emphasizes user research, prototyping, and design system evolution to deliver accessible, scalable

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience contributing on design teams.
• Experience collaborating with product managers and engineers.
• Strong ability to communicate design goals and processes clearly.
• Experience applying accessibility standards in design.

Responsibilities

• Reduce complexity to create simple, delightful experiences for readers.
• Create prototypes and run experiments to test hypotheses.
• Evolve design system and guidelines to implement new features.
• Apply accessibility standards to designs and collaborate with researchers.
• Distill complex concepts into clear talking points for stakeholders and communities.

Skills

Communication

Design systems

Prototyping

User research

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Senior UX Designer

Location: Remote

Duration: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profits organization supporting Wikipedia and other Wiki projects. The Foundation operates one of the world's top five websites and has global reach and impact. Technology and innovation are critical in our quest to support every human in freely sharing knowledge.

The Product Design team is looking for a Senior UX Designer with a solid understanding of user experience and product development processes to work within a new multi-disciplinary product team that will be focused on improving trust and safety. You will be influential in creating and developing the user experience, feeding directly into the product strategy for your product team.

For this role, you will primarily be working with the Reader Growth team, software focused on ways of learning and engagement for new and casual readers of Wikipedia.

Must be available for design, product and engineering team meetings and synchronous collaboration from 14:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC (10:00-14:00 ET / 7:00-11:00 PT)

You will be responsible for...

• Reducing complexity to create simple, delightful experiences for our users.
• Creating prototypes and running experiments to iteratively test your hypotheses.
• Using and evolving our design system and guidelines, to create new features from ideas on paper to implementation.
• Applying accessibility standards and guidelines to your designs.
• Collaborating with product managers and engineers to create product plans and maintain product design processes.
• Distilling complex concepts into easy to understand talking points to engage with our readers and communities throughout the design process.

Skills and experience....

• Can communicate their design goals and processes clearly and concisely to other team members and stakeholders.
• Provides constructive feedback to other designers and welcomes feedback from others.
• Experienced in conducting research, as well as collaborating with UX researchers, to build a deeper understanding of audience behaviours.
• Is able to generate ideas for the future as well as think tactically about how to deliver work in the present.
• Is self-motivated and seeks to evolve their skills and share what they've learnt with others.
• 5+ years of experience contributing on design teams.
• Bachelor's degree and/or Masters degree, or equivalent in related work experience

Additionally, we'd love it if you have...

• Background in content consumption, publishing, education, or news
• Experience acting as a researcher, both in-person and with remote participants
• Have familiarity with Free Knowledge and/or Open Source communities
• Speak more than one of the nearly 300 languages of the users you'll be designing for

Team requirements

• Attendance of mandatory design team meetings weekly on:
• Mondays from 14:00-15:00 UTC (10:00-11:00 ET / 7:00-8:00 PT)
• Tuesdays from 14:30-16:00 UTC (10:30-12:00 ET / 7:30-9:00 PT)
• Thursdays from 14:00-15:30 UTC (10:00-11:30 ET / 7:00-8:30 PT)
• Availability for team meetings and synchronous collaboration with primary product team from 14:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC (10:00-14:00 ET / 7:00-11:00 PT)

About the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.

As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace.

We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.

We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a d