Senior UX Designer

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual, educational content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, a top-ten internet property.

- Create experiences that go beyond good design into delighting users. - See features through from idea on paper through implementation. - Work with our growing team of designers to create reusable design patterns that span desktop, tablet and phone. - Interact with our reader and editor community from the beginning to end of your design process. - Illustrate your designs with lightweight specs or living documents to engage with developers. - Be both design support for other functional teams as well as driving forward the product roadmap with your own ideas and features. - Distill complex concepts into simple easy to understand talking points to effectively articulate your vision with your team and the community. - Be active in soliciting feedback from your design team, as well as other functional groups, be active in reaching out to team members both in the office and remote. - Reduce, simplify, distill. Know how to let go. Create experiences that are effortless for users by reducing UI complexity down to its essential components.

- The right person is better than the right set of experiences, these are the traits we’ve identified make great additions to our team so far. - Have great instincts for making design decisions and be able to support your choices with research and data. - Ability to tell stories that convey your design goals both internally to team members and to stakeholders. - Have a creative vision of your own while being able to work within the bounds of what is possible, and imagine what can come next. - Lead projects, be the glue that keeps a team together, work with designers, developers, community members, and product managers to see projects through successfully - Mentor junior designers and share knowledge with non-design staff to raise the overall level of design fluency within the organization. - Partner with Analytics team to deliver data informed design choices and work with Growth team to validate your decisions. - 4+ Years of experience solving complex product design problems, knowing when to borrow, copy, and steal, knowing when to reinvent. - Experience successfully defining a long term design direction for a product - Know when to switch from blue sky ideation to tactical thinking. Be able to deliver effective, constructive critique, and to listen and accept design criticism. - Bachelor's degree Pluses - Ability to prototype your designs in working code. - Experience acting as researcher, both in-person and with remote participants. - Go beyond wireframes to pixel level design. Create and utilize visual design patterns to finish out your features rather than needed to hand off to a visual designer. - Have familiarity with Free and Open Source communities. - Bring you designs to life, leverage your experience with motion design to go beyond aesthetics to have functional animation that seamlessly teaches as well as delights. - Speak more than one of the 286 languages of the users you’ll be designing for. - Anything else that will let us know more about who you are, WMF project user name, your blog, instagram, dribbble, Twitter, github etc.