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Dow Jones UX Designer, Marketing Experiences in BARCELONA, Spain

Job Description:

UX Designer, Marketing Experiences

Excellence in news demands excellence in our customers’ experiences. Our Technology Group brings together Product, UX, Engineering, Data & AI, PMO and Operations 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.


We are looking for a UX Designer, Marketing Experiences to work with the UX Design team, supporting the Product Marketing roadmap. In this role you will create experiences that engage and appeal to customers, enhancing our usability and improving 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.

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, Marketing, Editorial, UX Architecture, Technology, Research, and Product.

The UX Designer, Marketing Experiences will report to the Experience Design Director, WSJ.

This role is based in Barcelona and requires 3 days in the office, as per our current mandate which may change in the future.

Responsibilities:

Bring industry best practices and visual design principles to your solutions

Create solutions that meet both customer needs and business objectives

Collaborate with UX Architects on optimizing the user flow and overall experience

Create visual concepts that communicate the overall vision and approach for a project, developing the overall look and feel and delivering final designs

Optimize experiences by strategically implementing images, colors, fonts, and other elements in order to enhance a design or interaction, and engage users.

Contribute to the creation of visual patterns in our design system

Maintain brand consistency while designing new products and experiences

Explore and validate solutions by creating prototypes for and actively participating in user testing

Incorporate recommendations and analysis from our Customer Insights team

Coordinate on ensuring we meet requirements for accessibility

Independently deliver on projects and work with others on teams

Last but never least, serve as an advocate for our readers, keeping their needs at the heart of our digital solutions

Required Skill Set:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

1-3 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

Understanding of of design, typography, and image creation

Experience working with Design Systems, in creating and reusing components

Experience creating marketing materials including collateral, social media assets, landing pages

Experience working in an Agile environment.

Proficiency with G-suite products and ideally experience with professional collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence and Airtable.

Expertise with Figma, Miro, Adobe CC including Photoshop, Illustrator and other prototyping and design tools

A portfolio that demonstrates your experience and UX skills, illustrating step by step solutions for features with a strong user-centered approach.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Plus

Experience in the design of News or Financial Services

Experience in Adobe After Effects and/or motion graphics

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 talentresourceteam@dowjones.com. 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

Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world’s top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Financial News.

This longevity and success is due to a relentless pursuit of accuracy, depth and innovation, enhanced by the wisdom of past experience and a solid grasp on the future ahead. More than its individual brands, Dow Jones is a modern gateway to intelligence, with innovative technology, advanced data feeds, integrated solutions, expert research, award-winning journalism and customizable apps and delivery systems to bring the information that matters most to customers, when and where they need it, every day.

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Req ID: 43312

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