We’d love you to join our thriving MediaNews Group product development team whose mission is to create people-centric, software experiences that empower our local news and digital partners. We help small teams play big!
Be part of a digital media landscape in the midst of rapid change; our team is at the center of a new content, marketing, and revenue-sustainable experience that puts content, people and performance first. You will be a part of our cross-functional digital subscriptions agile team focused on building value for readers and subscribers while accelerating subscription growth and engagement. As part of the broader MediaNews Group Product & Technology team, you will contribute to a culture that prioritizes learning, continuous improvement, and flexibility, allowing for many personal and professional growth opportunities along the way. Supporting our culture, our work-style and approach is pragmatic yet approachable – we are agile, lean, and minimum viable process oriented as we transform from a build to scale whole-product mindset through four core principles: be transparent; be disciplined; be bold; be together. Join us!
About this Role
We are looking for a UX Designer to turn our software into a frictionless and engaging customer experience. This will be accomplished through a wide range of tasks, including user research, analytics, and user-centered design methodologies to drive design decisions that have a direct impact on the user experience.
To be successful in this role, you will lead the creation of elevated user experiences by collaborating with stakeholders, external teams, and other project team members. The ideal candidate will be proficient and experienced at performing various forms of user testing, designing user interfaces, detailing design documentation, handling the design of marketing requests such as creating newsletter emails and paywall ads, and strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams.
If this sounds like you, we’d like to meet you.
Main Accountabilities
Conducting user research, concept, and usability testing to understand user needs and psychology.
Create personas through user research and data.
Understand product specifications.
Developing wireframes and task flows based on user needs.
Collaborating with Designers and Developers to create intuitive, user-friendly software.
Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness).
Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows, and sitemaps.
Develop UI mockups that clearly illustrate how sites function and look.
Possess strong presentation skills to internal teams and key stakeholders.
Have knowledge of competitor products and industry trends.
Designing emails, newsletters, and paywall ads.
The ideal candidate would also be able to optimize UI, such as:
Design graphic UI elements (e.g., menus, tabs, buttons, and widgets).
Build page navigation buttons and search fields.
Create original graphic designs (e.g., images, sketches, and tables).
Certifications, experience, training, education required
Bachelor’s degree in information design, human factors, HCI, cognitive psychology, or related discipline, or equivalent education and relevant training.
5 years experience as a UX Designer, UI Designer, or similar role and a portfolio to showcase your work.
Experience with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign as well as InVision, Sketch, UXPin, Balsamiq or applications/platforms
Knowledge of HTML/CSS/JavaScript is a huge plus!
Ability to build working prototypes, mockups, wireframes with work samples
Background in project management and research, or demonstrated time management skills.
Familiarity with interaction design and information architecture.
Problem-solving aptitude and an analytical mind with business-focused acumen.
Team spirit; strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders