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UX Designer II (People App)

This assignment posting is for an Agency Worker opportunity with Dotdash Meredith. The Agency Worker is paid by a staffing agency employer. Agency Workers will receive a W2 from the staffing agency reporting their earnings for tax purposes.

We are looking for a User Experience Designer II to help define a brand new experience for one of our most important brands, People. In this role you will craft engaging, functional, and elegant experience design solutions based on a deep and empathetic understanding of our user’s needs. You will partner closely with our Product and Engineering teams to quickly iterate on product definition and ship new features, quickly. Listen to users and gathering feedback from them will also be super important in this role. Experience with user research is highly desirable.

This role will also need to partner closely with our editorial staff, and seek out new ways to help them tell the stories that resonate with our audience. You must be collaborative in your approach to internal stakeholders, while simultaneously and vigorously championing the consumer experience.

As a UX Designer II at Dotdash 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.

Assignment Details:

40 hours a week

Start date: 10/14/2024

End date: 3 months

Hourly Rate: $65

Location: Seattle or NYC DDM Office

Assignment 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.
Apply creative problem solving to the design, processes, and tooling of the system itself.
Document design guidelines, share knowledge, and collaborate with the engineering team to ensure products ship on time and as designed.
Help lead our efforts to build accessible digital products (A11y and WCAG), building awareness, and accountability across the rest of our product organization.

Essential Job Functions
Weight %	Accountabilities, Actions and Expected Measurable Results
60%	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 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

Skills/Experience:

Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent education and experience
4-7 years as a UX Designer for mass-market Web and Mobile products
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 Figma. 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

Dotdash Meredith is America’s largest digital and print publisher. Our 40+ iconic and fast-growing brands harness the best intent-driven content, the fastest sites, and the fewest ads to help nearly 200 million people every month, including 95 percent of US women, make decisions, take action, and find inspiration. Dotdash Meredith brands include PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Verywell, FOOD & WINE, The Spruce, Allrecipes, Byrdie, REAL SIMPLE, Investopedia, Southern Living and more.

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