Senior User Experience Architect, Dow Jones
Publishing
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Business news and financial information publishing
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Business news and financial information publishing
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver trusted news and data to help businesses and society make decisions for a better future.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate should have a passion for user-centric design and the tools and processes that make it happen
- Experience working with Design Systems
- Experience working with Agile
- Experience working with Figma
- At least 3-5+ years experience in a similar role
- Experience in the design of News or Financial Services
- Familiarity with WCAG accessibility standards and compliance
- Knowledge of Services Design and Service Mapping
- Experience with designing for CMS tools
- Understanding of best practices for mobile, web-based and responsive design
- Experience in user and screen flows, conceptual and detailed wireframing, and prototyping tools
- A strong portfolio that demonstrates your experience and UX skills, illustrating step by step solutions for features
What the job involves
- As a Senior UX Architect, Publishing you will help our newsrooms connect with their platforms, both web and mobile, bringing your experience in usability, information design, and information architecture to create and document holistic experiences
- In this role you will move projects from concept to concrete solutions by optimizing experiences for our newsrooms, working with Product teams and the Manager of UX Architecture, Publishing to conceptualize solutions, map user flows, implement information architecture, build prototypes for testing, and create wireframes and detailed functional specs
- Your expertise should bring an understanding of modular design and design systems to contribute to a scalable, sustainable approach that enables speed to market, evolution, and optimization
- This will be a highly collaborative role requiring partnerships with SMEs, Editorial, UX Design, Engineering, Research, and Product
- The Senior UX Architect, Publishing role will report to the Manager of UX Architecture, Publishing
- Collaborate with our news rooms to understand and meet editorial goals, and ensure that editorial workload, dependencies, and sustainability are understood and factored in the solution to a project
- Bring a strong culture of Information Architecture to our publishing products, creating wholistic navigational solutions that encourage site exploration and connect brands
- Think across multiple systems in order to solve cross-tool workflow issues
Our take
Dow Jones is a global leader in news and business intelligence, powering a range of well-respected brands, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial News, MarketWatch, and more. The company delivers its content to consumers through a range of formats, such as print, digital, mobile, and live events.
As companies seek to draw Millennials and Gen Z consumers to their platforms, adaptability is vital, since they are driving the demand for innovative tools and techniques, as the world evolves toward the digital-first era. Dow Jones has proven its ability to meet product optimization challenges with its reimagined Factiva offering that includes a list of new features, such as personalized results, an easy-to-use modern interface, and faster free-text search, all with a mobile-first design that adapts to any device.
The company has also focused on new product innovation by expanding its portfolio of capabilities and partnerships, further expanding into AI-powered personalization technologies and ongoing digital transformation. Already a powerhouse in the market, Dow Jones is well set to capitalize on future expansion and innovation opportunities and between 2019 and 2024, doubled its digital subscription base from 2.43 million to 4.86 million.
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Theater District, New York, NY
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Leadership
Almar Latour
(CEO, not founder)Before becoming the CEO of Dow Jones and Publisher of The Wall Street Journal, they were the Publisher of Barron’s Group and Executive VP of Dow Jones. They were also the previous Executive Editor of The Wall Street Journal.
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