Lead UX Designer - iOS

Summary

Join the Wikimedia Foundation's Product Design team as a Lead UX Designer, focusing on the Wikipedia iOS app and select Android features. Lead all aspects of user experience, collaborating with product leads to execute product strategy. You will reduce complexity for delightful user experiences, create prototypes and run experiments, evolve the design system, and apply accessibility standards. Collaborate with designers, managers, and engineers on product plans and processes. Distill complex concepts for readers and communities, improve operational processes, and mentor team members. The ideal candidate possesses strong creative vision, experience with mobile app design, and a passion for engaging with the global design community.

Requirements

• Can craft compelling stories that persuade team members and stakeholders to adopt their ideas
• Experience mentoring other designers on design whilst welcoming feedback from others
• Solid experience using evaluative and generative research methods, to build a deeper understanding of audience behaviours
• Has a strong creative vision and the ability to switch easily from blue sky ideation to tactical thinking
• Shares their work and ideas beyond their own team and enjoys engaging with the global design community
• 5+ years of experience designing for native mobile apps
• 8+ years of experience contributing on design teams
• Bachelor's degree and/or Masters degree, or equivalent in related work experience
• Designer must be available for team meetings and synchronous work between 2:00 PM UTC and 7:00 PM UTC

Responsibilities

• 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 Human Interface Guidelines to your designs
• Collaborating with designers, design managers, 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
• Working actively with other leaders on product and design to help improve tactical and operational processes
• Supporting the growth of colleagues by mentoring others within the team

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in content consumption, publishing, education, or news
• Experience acting as a researcher, both in-person and with remote participants
• Experience designing for and testing with different audiences (internationalization/localisation)
• Have familiarity with Free Knowledge and/or Open Source communities
• Experience designing for native mobile apps
• Speak more than one of the nearly 300 languages of the users you’ll be designing for