Sr. UX Architect, Newsletters

Job Description:About Our Organization:

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world's largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America's largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron's, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor's Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

About the Team:Our Technology team drives the evolution of our Technology, Engineering, Data, Product and User Experience functions. With a keen focus on delivering cutting-edge solutions, we shape the digital landscape for our customers, readers, and users. From revolutionizing visuals to optimizing tools and harnessing the power of data, mobile, video, and social platforms, our team is committed to providing a seamless and immersive experience across all touchpoints. Collaborating closely with our newsrooms and strategic partners, we spearhead the development of groundbreaking products and technologies.About the Role:

As a Senior UX Architect, you will help our newsrooms enhance their platforms — including web, mobile, and newsletters — by leveraging your expertise in usability, information design, and information architecture to create and document comprehensive user experiences. The ideal candidate is passionate about user-centric design and proficient with the tools and processes that bring it to life.

In this role you will move projects from concept to concrete solutions by optimizing experiences for our newsrooms, working with teams 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, especially as pertains to newsletters.

This will be a highly collaborative role requiring partnerships with SMEs, Editorial, UX Design, Engineering, Research, and Product.

The Senior UX Architect, Newsletters role will report to the Manager of User UXArchitecture, Publishing. It is a hybrid position based in our Barcelona office.

You Will:

• Constructing newsletters according to technical limitations of email clients
• 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

You Have:

• Experience working with Design Systems
• Experience working with Agile
• Experience working with Figma
• At least 3-5+ years experience in a similar role
• Strong grasp of UI, HCI and UX principles
• 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
• A portfolio that displays a clear examples of deliverables
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• 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

Our Benefits

• Pension Scheme: Company contributes up to 8% of your salary with matching contributions.
• Healthcare Coverage: Comprehensive health plan with unlimited coverage, including outpatient care, dental, and maternity.
• Life & Disability Insurance: Coverage from day one, including life insurance at 2X salary and accident coverage up to 4X salary.
• Wellness Programs: Access to wellness platforms, mindfulness apps, and free fitness classes.
• Meal & Teleworking Allowance: Monthly meal card and teleworking allowance.
• Flexible Working: Ability to work from home 2 days per week with the option to work remotely for 1 week per quarter.
• Family Care Support: Up to 4 weeks of paid compassionate leave and a generous reimbursement for emergency care.
• Referral Bonus: Earn a bonus for recommending great talent to join us.

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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. We strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals, including women, people with disabilities, and those from underrepresented groups. 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