Senior UX Designer

Summary

Join the Wikimedia Foundation's product design team as a Senior UX Designer and contribute to the evolution of Wikipedia and other Wiki projects. Collaborate with the Community Tech team to improve editor, admin, and moderator tools, and support the Product Safety & Integrity team in building anti-abuse features. You will reduce design complexity, create prototypes, apply accessibility standards, and collaborate with product managers and engineers. The role requires strong communication skills, experience in user research, and the ability to balance tactical execution with forward-thinking innovation. This position demands a minimum of 5 years of experience in design and a bachelor's or master's degree (or equivalent experience). The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with a competitive salary.

Requirements

• 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 behaviors
• 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

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 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$113,082 to US$ 175,725 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay
• For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire