Junior Designer, Design Systems

Job Description:

Junior Designer, Design Systems 

Excellence in news demands excellence in our customers’ experiences. Our Technology Group brings together teams covering Product, UX, Engineering, Operations and Data with a single purpose: to connect people to the news that matters most, when and where they need it, by creatively defining and building connected, innovative and sustainable experiences/products that are data informed and with a customer lens.

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We are looking for a Junior Designer, Design Systems to work with the Design System team, combining innovation and usability to contribute to the creation of our leading design ecosystem from a product perspective. 

Overview

In this role you will create experiences that engage and appeal to customers, enhance our usability and improve the user experience through the use of imagery, color, shapes, typography, and form, ensuring our experiences appear trustworthy, informative and true to our brand. The ideal candidate should have a passion for user-centric design and the tools and processes that make it happen.  You’ll evangelize the Design System throughout the organization and expand the Design System to multiple products. 

Your expertise should bring an understanding of component based design and design systems to contribute to a scalable, sustainable approach that enables speed to market, evolution, and optimization. 

You will be part of transforming and optimizing the impact, productivity, and scalability of UX at Dow Jones. 

This will be a highly collaborative role in a team partnered with SMEs, Editorial, UX Architecture, UX Design, Engineering, Research, and Product.

The Junior Designer, Design Systems will report to the Senior Manager, Design Systems. 

Responsibilities:

• Help support and maintain Dow Jones’ design system

• Contribute to the creation of components in the design system to make them reusable and expandable across our products, constructing component libraries, guidelines, and templates

• Work closely with Experience Architects and Experience Designers, as well as Design Technologists to design and update components

• Produce detailed hand off documentation for development

• Ensure that the Figma library is kept up to date and is built with best practices

• Be open to industry best practices and visual design principles to your solutions

• Contribute to the creation of visual patterns in our design system

• Explore and validate solutions by creating/modifying prototypes for user testing

• The Design System is built Accessibility-First, so collaborating with the Accessibility Lead to make sure the design system has appropriate accessibility standards implemented and tested is a necessary part of the job

• Contribute to the design team’s culture through collaboration, feedback, and process iteration

• Independently deliver on projects and work with others on teams

• Last but never least, serve as an advocate for our audience, keeping their needs at the heart of our digital solutions - we build components for our brands, but our audience is the readers & subscribers of our products.

Required Skill Set:

• Minimum 0-1 years experience in a similar role

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

• Strong grasp of UI, HCI and UX principles

• Understanding of best practices for mobile, web-based and responsive design

• Experience with component-based design

• Experience working with Design Systems, leading to a higher quality and more consistent product design

• Familiarity/experience with G-suite products and experience with professional collaboration tools such as Jira, Miro, Confluence and Airtable.  

• Experience working with Figma

• A strong portfolio that demonstrates your experience and UX skills, illustrating step by step solutions for features

• A portfolio that displays expertise using design systems, and a demonstrated ability to think through end-to-end solutions with a strong user-centered approach.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Role requires 3 days each week in office (as per current mandate, may change)

Plus

• Experience in the design of News or Financial Services

• Familiarity with WCAG accessibility standards and compliance

Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at [email protected]. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.

Business Area:

Dow Jones - Technology

Job Category:

Software Product Engineering

Union Status:

Non-Union role