UX Designer, People Inc.
People App, Games
Digital & print publisher
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Digital & print publisher
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people find answers, solve problems, and get inspired.
Role
Who you are
- Experience with user research is highly desirable
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent education and experience
- 4-7 years as a UX Designer for mass-market Web and Mobile products
- Strong UX and Game Design skills, including user flows, wireframing, game mechanics, and interaction design
- User experience skills including user research and usability testing
- Direct experience developing and shipping casual games (e.g., puzzles, word games, daily challenges) with a focus on player engagement and retention
- Experience building interactive prototypes suitable for validating design decisions with users
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Strong visual design skills, especially visual interface and typography
- 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
What the job involves
- We are looking for a User Experience Designer II to help define and deliver a brand new, intuitive, and engaging casual game 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 craft simple, habit-forming game experiences (such as puzzles, word games, and daily challenges) that engage and delight our audience on a daily basis, driving player engagement, retention, and long-term enjoyment
- Listening to users and gathering feedback from them will also be super important in this role
- 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 People Inc 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
- Thoroughly understand the wants and needs of our users
- Create and refine core gameplay mechanics and interaction patterns — designing them as scalable, reusable systems that support multiple titles and cross-game retention and monetization strategies
- 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
- User Experience Design (60%)
- Design end-to-end user experiences for casual games, from onboarding flows to daily play
- Use business requirements, user stories, and data to produce user flows, wireframes, prototypes, high fidelity mockups, and rigorous user interface specifications
- Develop features and systems that encourage daily engagement (e.g., streaks, progression, hints, rewards) and long-term player retention
- Set clear design standards and reusable templates to ensure a consistent player experience across our games. Establish how games should be updated and measured over time, and ensure designs are easy to adapt for a wide range of players
- Prototype game concepts and test new game ideas quickly and iteratively
- Create and document rigorous user interface specifications, ensuring the designs are accessible for a wide range of players
- Collaborate with Design and Product teams (30%)
- 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
- Process Management (10%)
- Collaborate with broader UX Team to develop and implement best practices
Our take
People Inc., formerly Meredith Dotdash, is the largest digital and print publisher in the US. It encompasses over 40 brands including PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Verywell and Allrecipes.
The approach that shaped this media giant was to build websites with fast load-times and few adds. A clean site keeps readers longer, boosting its rankings in search algorithms. Ads can then be less frequent but sold at a premium. Interestingly, the company was also an early adopter of affiliate links.
The merger that founded People Inc., that of Dotdash and Meredith, made Meredith sites faster and increased story output for Dotdash - a fruitful development on both sides. The company continues to move at the front of media tech, for example by launching a targeting tool named D/Cipher that enables intent-based targeting at scale, without cookies.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Complete medical/dental benefits
- Generous vacation and sick time
- Commuter program
- Discounted gym memberships
- Pet insurance
- 401(K) retirement plan
Company HQ
Battery Park City, New York, NY
Leadership
Neil Vogel
(CEO)Member of the Board of Directors at The Philadelphia Inquirer and Webby Media Group (Recognition Media), and a Venture Partner at FirstMark Capital.
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