Senior Designer – Product & Experience
About TEGNA
TEGNA Inc. helps people thrive in their local communities by providing the trusted local news and services that matter most. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA reaches more than 100 million people monthly across the web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television. Together, we are building a sustainable future for local news.
The Senior Designer is the nexus between consumer centered business strategy and enabling Digital Products at scale. In this position, you will serve as a hands-on integrator and leader. Your exceptional talents drive insights and strategy that help shape the future of media, community, and connection. Understanding people and their critical needs, you advocate for the best outcomes across business and product teams. You have a proven record of conceptualizing, designing and delivering elegant and intuitive products, experiences, and platforms.
Key Activities
- Support product strategy, Information Architecture, user research, experience requirements gathering from stakeholders.
- Interpret analytics, voice of the customer, market feedback, site rankings and any relevant collateral as needed to improve and conceptualize designs.
- Keep on the pulse of trends in the digital media and utility space, evaluate and evangelize as needed.
- Be the voice of the user in prioritization, new product and feature development.
- Lead discussion and critique of work, solicit requirements from stakeholders, be a key partner in helping deliver on our mission.
- Anticipates customer needs and proactively develop solutions to meet them.
- Solves complex problems and designs innovative solutions.
- Review work performed by others and provide recommendations for improvement.
- Motivates and inspires other team members.
Digital Acumen
- Demonstrates leadership in effectively aligning business capabilities and customer journeys with solutions that optimize end results in a cost-effective way, while having an eye toward the future and scale
- Understands and applies current digital technology design, build, and operations capabilities and requirements
- Effectively communicates, translates, and actions human-centered design best practices
- Utilizes futuristic thinking (ability to see trends and opportunities and to capitalize on them)
Key Professional Traits and Requirements
- 5+years of hands-on experience with the following:
- Product design (mobile-first, platform services, design systems)
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Figma
- Agile Software Development Experience
- Product Model Experience
- Excellent design capabilities and craft for consumer-grade products and experiences
- User research experience in facilitation and analysis
- Professional and reflects TEGNA values
- Visionary
- Ability to maintain a keen attention to detail, multitask and work well under pressure
- Experience in working across complex products & enterprise capabilities or a family of multiple products #LI-MS1
Pay Range
$130,000—$160,000 USD
Benefits:
TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of our employees and their families. TEGNA offers two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, as well as access to dental and eye care coverage; fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance.
Our 401(k) program offers full, part-time and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1% - 80% of their pay on a pre-tax basis to TEGNA’s 401(k). Contributions made up to the first 4% of pay are eligible for a 100% match from the company and are 100% vested from day one.
Regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans, ALL employees and their eligible family members receive nine free virtual doctor’s appointments with a physician through Teladoc, and 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health.
TEGNA offers a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit as well as nine paid holidays per year.
* Some jobs are covered by a collective bargaining agreement and thus some or all of the benefits described herein may not apply. For example, some newsroom bargaining unit employees receive health and retirement benefits under plans administered by the union.
EEO statement:
TEGNA Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, hiring and developing individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to add to our collaborative culture. We value and consider applications from all qualified candidates without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, disability, medical condition, enrollment in college or vocational school, political affiliation, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. TEGNA will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law. If you are in need of an accommodation in order to submit your application, please email [email protected]
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