Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organization supporting Wikipedia and other Wiki projects. The Foundation operates one of the world’s top five websites and has global reach and impact. Technology and innovation are critical in our quest to support every human in freely sharing knowledge.

The Product Design team at Wikimedia is looking for a Lead UX Designer with an expert understanding of user experience and product development processes to work within one of our multi-disciplinary product teams exploring new and varied experimental concepts to engage new, future audiences to learn from and contribute to Wikimedia projects.

You will be responsible for…

Reducing complexity to create simple, delightful experiences from Wikimedia projects.
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.
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.

Skills and experience….

The right person is better than the right set of experiences. These are the traits we’ve identified that make great additions to our team so far.

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 behaviors.
Has a strong creative vision and the ability to switch from blue sky ideation to tactical thinking to execute and test new ideas efficiently.
Highly skilled prototyper able to craft persuasive translations to bring their ideas to life.
Shares their work and ideas beyond their own team, and enjoys engaging with the global design community.
8+ years of experience contributing on design teams
Bachelor's degree and/or Masters degree, or equivalent in related work experience

Additionally, we’d love it if you have...

Background in content consumption, publishing, education, news, and games/edu-tainment
Experience working on products in emerging and new tech, for younger audiences.
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

Team requirements

Attendance of mandatory design team meetings weekly on:
Tuesdays from 15:00-16:00 UTC (11a-12p ET / 8a-9a PT)
Thursdays from 14:00-15:20 UTC (10a-11:20p ET / 7a-8:20a PT)
Availability for team meetings and synchronous collaboration with product team from 17:00 UTC to 21:00 UTC (1p-5p ET / 10a-2p PT)

Lead UX Designer - Future Audiences

Anywhere in the world

Remote

Senior

Wikimedia Foundation