Lead UX Designer - iOS

Position Overview

• Location Type: [Not Specified]
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: [Not Specified]

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Lead UX Designer with expertise in user experience and product development to join their Apps team. This role will focus on the Wikipedia iOS app and select features on the Android app, leading all aspects of user experience and contributing to product strategy in partnership with other product leads.

Requirements

• Ability to craft compelling stories to persuade team members and stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring other designers and welcoming feedback.
• Solid experience using evaluative and generative research methods to understand audience behaviors.
• Strong creative vision with the ability to switch between blue sky ideation and tactical thinking.
• Experience sharing work and ideas beyond the immediate team and engaging with the global design community.
• 5+ years of experience designing for native mobile apps.
• 8+ years of experience contributing on design teams.
• Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree, or equivalent related work experience.

Additionally, we’d love it if you have:

• Background in content consumption, publishing, education, or news.
• Experience acting as a researcher (in-person and remote participants).
• Experience designing for and testing with different audiences (internationalization/localization).
• Familiarity with Free Knowledge and/or Open Source communities.
• Experience designing for native mobile apps.
• Ability to speak more than one of the nearly 300 languages of the users.

Team Requirements:

• Designer must be available for team meetings and synchronous work between 2:00 PM UTC and 7:00 PM UTC.

Responsibilities

• Reduce complexity to create simple, delightful user experiences.
• Create prototypes and run experiments to iteratively test hypotheses.
• Utilize and evolve the design system and guidelines to create new features from concept to implementation.
• Apply accessibility standards and Human Interface Guidelines to designs.
• Collaborate with designers, design managers, product managers, and engineers to create product plans and maintain product design processes.
• Distill complex concepts into easy-to-understand talking points for engaging with readers and communities throughout the design process.
• Actively work with other product and design leaders to improve tactical and operational processes.
• Support the growth of colleagues by mentoring others within the team.

About the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Their vision is a world where every human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. They believe everyone has the potential to contribute to and access knowledge freely. The Foundation hosts Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects, builds software for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, supports volunteer communities and partners, and advocates for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive. The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations from millions of individuals.