Product Designer, Interaction Design

Job Description

Your Impact:

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 work with an end-to-end product design team that includes visual design, user experience, user research, prototyping, and presentation/interaction coding for our proprietary media platform. Our designers contribute to an end-to-end design process that allows them to understand and own their 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 the product design team that creates the content management system that powers all of Hearst Magazines' websites.

We are looking for an Interaction Designer to create new initiatives and enhance existing experiences across Hearst Magazine brands . You will be a part of our end-to-end design team, working closely with the product and engineering teams that will support these initiatives. In your well-defined design process, you will consider reader experiences alongside business needs, design intuitive user flows and prototypes, and integrate user feedback.

You will create a deep understanding of our brands and help us discover, design, launch, and validate new and innovative features for their sites.

Responsibilities:
• Turn complex problems into beautiful storytelling and reader experiences
• Protoype in HTML, CSS and Javascript
• Analyze current trends and communicate your findings to stakeholders
• Collaborate with our storytelling team on prototypes and experiments for new formats and technologies
• Keep an eye on emerging technologies
• Partner with senior team members on feature design for our media platform
• Learn our front end design system and work in the development environment to implement your own design work
• Learn design research skills including user interviews, usability testing, and design thinking methods
• Iterate quickly and communicate design ideas effectively across teams, while being receptive to constructive feedback

Requirements:
• Experience in creating complex flows that capture all edge cases and scenarios
• An expert eye for visual design, layout, spacing, typography
• Portfolio of design work showcasing your thinking, process, feedback, and learnings
**Include password if your work is password protected
• Figma, HTML, CSS, and Javascript
• You have knowledge of accessibility standards (Section 508 Refresh/WCAG 2.0 Level A and AA)-and/or an interest to learn more
Our ideal candidate:
• Prefers teamwork and collaborative, interdisciplinary design practices
• Enjoys prototyping and testing their design solutions
• Loves to learn and try new things
• Understands user-centered design principles

This role is fully remote and open to those living in the following states: AL, CA, CO, FL, IL, MA, MD, MI, NC, NJ, NY, OH, SC, TN, TX, VA

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d80q1q-18-220-106-241-42 in your application.