Product Designer CMS & Tools

Job Description

At Hearst Magazines Digital Media you will join a diverse, supportive community of creatives building new experiences in digital media. You will have the opportunity to employ an end-to-end product design skillset including visual design, user experience design, user research, prototyping and presentation/interaction coding for our proprietary media platform. Contribute to an end-to-end design process that allows you to fully understand and own your work. You will work with diverse editorial brands such as ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, Women's Health, Runner's World, Esquire, House Beautiful and more.

We are building a product design team to focus on the core interface & workflows for Resin Creation, our new proprietary content and experience management system. This publishing service will support a team of 6,000 editors globally across 6 regions for an audience of millions of daily visitors.
Our goal is to deliver tools and experiences that editors love by prioritizing innovation, collaboration, and ruthless focus on the needs and goals of our editorial teams.

Responsibilities
• You are a designer with experience working on the user interface of a CMS or marketing platform.
• You will work closely with the team lead to understand the system and streamline the team's work-working both collaboratively and independently on projects.
• You will foster strong relationships with our editorial teams and conduct user research in order to understand the features and workflows required to support editorial goals: from the daily news cycle to immersive storytelling, deeply researched features to commerce-driven content. Your deep understanding of their individual goals and pain points will help us to design efficient and delightful solutions for our editors.
• You will work with product managers and engineers throughout the product lifecycle, always advocating for the user and the tasks they are trying to perform.
• You will work to make our interfaces accessible to people with disabilities, completing our comprehensive accessibility training and applying it to your work as you learn. You will include people with disabilities in your user research and testing throughout the process.
• You will work with the design systems team to work with and contribute to the design system.

Qualifications
• 4+ years professional experience designing web or mobile products that have been fully implemented and released to a consumer or business market. Experiences should include working on a content management system and/or marketing platform.
• Expert in user interface design.
• Experience working with a design system.
• Experience distilling complex product requirements.
• A commitment to user research and testing, accessibility, and inclusive design.
• Hands-on knowledge of contemporary digital product design tools and technologies.
• This could include Figma, Sketch, Invision, Framer, HTML, CSS, JS, React, and Git.
• Portfolio of design work showcasing your design approach, learnings, and skills.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rbm43o-52-15-123-168-42 in your application.