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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. \nThe Product Design team is looking for a Senior UX Designer with a solid understanding of user experience and product development processes to work within a new multi-disciplinary product team that will be focused on improving trust and safety. You will be influential in creating and developing the user experience, feeding directly into the product strategy for your product team.\nFor this role, you will primarily be working with the Reader Growth team, software focused on ways of learning and engagement for new and casual readers of Wikipedia.\nMust be available for design, product and engineering team meetings and synchronous collaboration from 14:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC (10:00-14:00 ET / 7:00-11:00 PT) \nYou will be responsible for…\nReducing complexity to create simple, delightful experiences for our users.\nCreating prototypes and running experiments to iteratively test your hypotheses.\nUsing and evolving our design system and guidelines, to create new features from ideas on paper to implementation.\nApplying accessibility standards and guidelines to your designs.\nCollaborating with product managers and engineers to create product plans and maintain product design processes.\nDistilling complex concepts into easy to understand talking points to engage with our readers and communities throughout the design process.\nSkills and experience…. \nThe 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.\nCan communicate their design goals and processes clearly and concisely to other team members and stakeholders.\nProvides constructive feedback to other designers and welcomes feedback from others.\nExperienced in conducting research, as well as collaborating with UX researchers, to build a deeper understanding of audience behaviours.\nIs able to generate ideas for the future as well as think tactically about how to deliver work in the present. \nIs self-motivated and seeks to evolve their skills and share what they’ve learnt with others.\n5+ years of experience contributing on design teams.\nBachelor's degree and/or Masters degree, or equivalent in related work experience \nAdditionally, we’d love it if you have...\nBackground in content consumption, publishing, education, or news\nExperience acting as a researcher, both in-person and with remote participants\nHave familiarity with Free Knowledge and/or Open Source communities\nSpeak more than one of the nearly 300 languages of the users you’ll be designing for\nTeam requirements\nAttendance of mandatory design team meetings weekly on:\nMondays from 14:00-15:00 UTC (10:00-11:00 ET / 7:00-8:00 PT)\nTuesdays from 14:30-16:00 UTC (10:30-12:00 ET / 7:30-9:00 PT)\nThursdays from 14:00-15:30 UTC (10:00-11:30 ET / 7:00-8:30 PT)\nAvailability for team meetings and synchronous collaboration with primary product team from 14:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC (10:00-14:00 ET / 7:00-11:00 PT)\nAbout the Wikimedia Foundation\nThe 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. \nThe 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.\nAs 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.\nThe 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$116,633 to US$181,243 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.\n*Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following:\nUS States: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia*, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico*, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming (*US Territory or Federal District)\nCountries: Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya*, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore*, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Our non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR) and must have current work authorization in their location. 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