Job description

This assignment posting is for an Agency Worker opportunity with Dotdash Meredith. The Agency Worker is paid by a staffing agency employer. Agency Workers will receive a W2 from the staffing agency reporting their earnings for tax purposes.

Product Design Lead

The design team for several of our most loved brands, BHG, Real Simple, Southern Living and more, is looking for a Product Design Lead to help define site experiences and features that help us achieve our business goals across our portfolio of sites. In this role you will create beautiful, elegant design solutions that also vividly express our brand promise. You will simultaneously be a champion for our users while also collaborating with our editorial teams to help them tell stories that delight, engage, and build loyalty.

As a UX Design Lead at Dotdash Meredith you will collaborate with business stakeholders and user research teams to understand problems and recognize opportunities, and work directly with other designers, product managers and software developers to build web products that solve them.

Assignment Details:

40 hours a week

Start date: 3/1

End date: 8/31

Hourly Rate: $47.50

Location: Remote - US

Assignment Responsibilities:

Collaborate with Brand stakeholders to develop the visual language of our products and maintain cohesive expressions of visual identities for multiple brands.
Translate user needs and business requirements into concrete ideas and high fidelity designs.
Document design guidelines, share knowledge, and collaborate with the engineering team to ensure products ship on time and as designed.
Champion and promote design thinking, research, and process across the organization.

Essential Job Functions

Weight % - Accountabilities, Actions and Expected Measurable Results

60% - Product User Experience Design

Use business requirements, user stories, and data to produce user flows, wireframes, prototypes, high fidelity mockups, and rigorous user interface specifications

30% - Collaborate with Design, Product, and Engineering teams

Participate in and lead brainstorming and critique sessions that foster big-picture thinking while identifying opportunities to raise the bar on the details
Collaborate across teams to understand opportunities, develop potential solutions, and test ideas, validate assumptions
Present design solutions and build consensus among a broad range of stakeholders
Work closely with our engineering team to ensure the designs are executed at the highest level of fidelity and craft.

10% - Process Management

Collaborate with broader UX Team to develop and implement best practices

Skills/Experience:

Education: Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent education and experience
Experience: 4-7 years experience as a UX designer
Strong user experience design skills including user flows, wireframing, and interaction design
Strong visual design skills, especially visual interface and typography
Experience building interactive prototypes suitable for validating design decisions with users
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, Adobe Suite, etc. Basic HTML and CSS skills are a big plus
Excellent written and verbal communication
Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and stakeholders distributed across the world.
Self-motivated and highly-organized
Strong attention to detail
Excellent communication skills

Dotdash Meredith is America’s largest digital and print publisher. Our 40+ iconic and fast-growing brands harness the best intent-driven content, the fastest sites, and the fewest ads to help nearly 200 million people every month, including 95 percent of US women, make decisions, take action, and find inspiration. Dotdash Meredith brands include PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Verywell, FOOD & WINE, The Spruce, Allrecipes, Byrdie, REAL SIMPLE, Investopedia, Southern Living and more.

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