Job Description:
UX Architect, B2B
Excellence in news demands excellence in our customers' experiences. Our Experience Group brings together Product, UX, Technology, Program Management, and Customer Research with a single purpose: to connect people to the news that matters most when they need it 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 seeking an UX Architect, B2B to help us drive digital growth efforts with our B2B business.
You will join a team that will focus on growing our Dow Jones audience and subscription funnel, through new users and associated segments, while analyzing the platforms' role within the membership and advertising business ecosystem. You will be part of a trailblazing team, poised to get our world-class content in front of potential new subscribers.
In this role you will create experiences that engage and appeal to customers, enhance our usability and improve the user experience by creating meaningful user workflows, wireframes and thinking about the overall end to end journey within the product. The ideal candidate should have a passion for user-centric design and the tools and processes that make it happen.
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. This will be a highly collaborative role requiring partnerships with SMEs, UX Designers, Engineering, Research, and Product.
The UX Architect, B2B will report to the Senior Manager, UX Architecture, B2B. This role is a hybrid role based in our Barcelona office
Responsibilities:
- As an UX Architect you will work closely with Product and UX Architecture team on the New Factiva experience. The ideal candidate should bring their experience in usability, information design, information architecture to create viable and holistic experiences.
- Experience with complex data-rich workflows, platforms and design systems is a plus.
- You will be responsible for taking projects from high level ideas to final deliverable by creating journey maps, detailed wireframes with functional specifications and designs for usability testing.
- Contribute to identifying common patterns (modular design) and creating interaction patterns for reusable libraries within the design system.
- As a champion for accessibility, work with the accessibility lead in making sure standards are implemented and documented on all components/workflows within the product.
- The role requires high level collaboration and partnership with UX Design, Research, Product and Technology teams.
- Independently deliver on projects and work with others on the team, while keeping the user and their needs in the forefront to create viable solutions.
Required Skill Set:
- 1-3 years relevant experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Strong grasp of HFI, 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
- Experience working in Agile
- Experience working with Figma
- A strong portfolio that demonstrates your experience and UX skills, illustrating step by step solutions for features
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Plus
- Experience in the design of News or Financial Services
- Previous work on subscription and membership flows
- Familiarity with WCAG accessibility standards and compliance
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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. 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 - Experience
Job Category:
IT Architecture & System Design
Union Status:
Non-Union role
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What We Do
When you join Dow Jones, you become part of the most dynamic, creative and savvy news and information companies in the world. As a global leader in news and business intelligence, we're newswires, websites, newspapers, apps, newsletters, databases, magazines, and video --including some of the widest-read and most-respected brands, like The Wall Street Journal, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Financial News, DJX, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, and Dow Jones VentureSource.
Our products inform the discussions and decisions that are vital to the world's commerce, while our databases make the business world more transparent. We continually develop technology to transform information into insight and prosperity. We enlighten and inspire audiences around the globe with authoritative, differentiated and trusted content.
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