UX Designer - Android

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organization supporting Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. The Foundation operates one of the world's top five websites and has global reach and impact. Technology and innovation are critical in our quest to support every human in freely sharing knowledge. 

The Product Design team at Wikimedia is seeking a UX Designer with a solid understanding of user experience and product development processes to work within our Apps team, supporting the Wikipedia Android app. You will help create and maintain the user experience, in order to deliver upon the product strategy for your product team.

Responsibilities

• Reducing complexity to create simple, delightful experiences for our users.
• Creating prototypes and running experiments to iteratively test your hypotheses.
• Using and evolving our design system and guidelines, to create new features from ideas on paper to implementation.
• Applying accessibility standards and Material Design guidelines to your designs.
• Collaborating with designers, product managers and engineers to create product plans and maintain product design processes.
• Distilling complex concepts into easy to understand talking points to engage with our readers and communities throughout the design process.

Skills and experience…

The right person is better than the right set of experiences. These are the traits we've identified that make great additions to our team so far.

• 1+ years of experience designing for native Android apps and working with Material Design best practices
• Has ability to explain work and design goals to team members and internal stakeholders
• Is receptive to constructive feedback and able to engage in useful discourse to improve their work. 
• Has experience collaborating with UX researchers, to build a deeper understanding of audience behaviours
• Thinks tactically about the best way to approach a task and deliver the work on schedule.
• Continually seeks opportunities to develop their skills and learn from others.
• 2+ years of experience contributing on design teams
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related work experience 

Additionally, we'd love it if you have...

• Background in content consumption, publishing, education, or news
• Experience acting as a researcher, both in-person and with remote participants
• Experience designing for and testing with different audiences (internationalization/localisation)
• Have familiarity with Free Knowledge and/or Open Source communities
• Speak more than one of the nearly 300 languages of the users you'll be designing for

Team requirements

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

About the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive. 

The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.

As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries*. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$85,925 to US$134,289  with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location. 

*Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America and Uruguay.  Our non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR). 

We periodically review this list to streamline to ensure alignment with our hiring requirements. 

All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.

If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected] or +1 (415) 839-6885.

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