Product Designer
The USA TODAY NETWORK is looking for a talented Product Designer to play a key role in helping to both elevate product design research methodologies and bring rigor and clarity to our iterative design process.
This role may be performed in person at our McLean, VA headquarters. Or it can be 100% remote, with team members throughout the country.
Note: You must submit a link to a digital portfolio with your application to be considered. Please include a URL on your resume.
Description:
You have a passion for design craft and abilities as a strategic thinker. You will help lead initiatives to marry the analytical with the creative. As a Product Designer, you will work with fellow designers, product managers, business analysts, and technology developers to shape next-gen consumer experiences. This role goes far beyond improving news sites. We’re transforming the ways in which information is gathered, experienced, and shared. Imagine a world where reading, watching, and listening are not passive acts — where the distance between journalist and consumer evaporates. Through our apps, websites, content verticals, and events, the USA TODAY NETWORK taps into the zeitgeist of neighborhoods and communities, in ways no other American media brand can.
Key Responsibilities:
- Iterate on design strategies and UX solutions that address business goals and customer needs
- Ensure consistency in UX flows and interactions across multiple platforms and devices
- Perform ethnographic and qualitative research, followed by iterative user testing to validate insights
- Translate insights and strategy into concept prototypes, clearly communicating your vision through your artifacts.
- Drive strategic consideration of the desired customer experience through frameworks, product prioritization, roadmaps, CX designs, etc.
- Use visual and tangible storytelling to share your discoveries, influence stakeholders and create energy around an idea or an initiative
- Leverage a generative work style: you can visualize and iterate rapidly at different levels of fidelity (e.g., sketches, wireframes)
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in a related field (design strategy, UX design, communication design, or another design-related field) required
- 4-7 years of design experience preferably within a news, publishing, or agency setting.
- Hands-on knowledge of Design tools (Sketch, Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, etc.)
- Understand how to translate enterprise design solutions across breakpoints and/or key platforms
- Understanding of web analytics to inform data-driven CX solutions
- Hands-on expertise with product design and agile methodologies
- Strong expertise in human-centered design and design thinking tools and methods
- Experience with a digital product & services company
- Proven ability to translate insights into design opportunities within constraints
- Fluent in empathy research methodologies, UX research, and usability testing
- In-depth experience in key UX areas like empathy research, design strategy, information architecture
- Experience in designing solutions for mobile UI, native apps, Desktop UI
- Strong sense of collaboration; you should thrive in iterative, cross-disciplinary environments
- Comfortable trying new things and failing quickly to get to the optimal solution
- Use design to communicate complex concepts, whether they’re conversations, frameworks, or ideas
- Ability to drive consensus via facilitation, storytelling, brainstorming
Gannett Co., Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are a drug-free, EEO employer committed to a diverse workforce. We will consider all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity, family responsibilities, disability, education, political affiliation, or veteran status.
