Product Designer, E Online, News Digital

Job Description

Responsibilities

About Us

At the NBC News Group, we are responsible for the best, most impactful news brands in the industry, including NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, Today, and E!. We care passionately about news and our ability to help our customers to get informed and inspired about what is important to them (and us.)

The Role

As a product designer on our E! Online team, you will ideate and grow our user experiences to better serve customers through our trusted brands. You will work with a passionate, consumer-centric agile team to create and evolve our brand and experiences that serve millions of customers. This includes being a core contributor and co-facilitator in product discovery (research & synthesis, workshops, ideation), evolving our design systems to support the design solutions, and guiding those design solutions through the engineering process.

Success in this role is driven by the ability to collaborate with internal teams and design peers to grow the organization's UX expertise. Key to this is staying current on customer needs and behaviors, particularly as they apply to our E! Online brand. This includes gathering input from and coordinating with teams like research, editorial, growth, broadcast, advertising, and business development to ensure a focus on data driven design solutions that have been validated with real users.

What We Value

At NBCU, product designers are the customer advocates. We use human-centered thinking and empathy to understand customers' behaviors and needs and create solutions for them. To accomplish this, we hold our collaborative relationships with our peers in high regard, preferring to over communicate and listen deeply. As a team, we are always seeking to improve by staying curious, acknowledging that the right way is rarely the easy way, and proactively seeking solutions. Organizationally, we ensure that product designers have clear career growth opportunities that are fostered by coaching & mentoring by design leaders.

Qualifications

Required Product Design Skills
• 3+ years of experience as a full-stack product designer who utilizes a data-driven, human-centric approach to product design and development
• 3+ years of experience with Product Discovery, Design Thinking, Lean UX
• Exceptional ability to present and visually communicate
• Proven ability to utilize design thinking and facilitation skills to gather insights and inputs from internal stakeholders
• Channel broader design vision and articulate product design strategy via visual artifacts
• Build low-fi to high-fi designs as needed in the product development process to run design reviews and to gain buy-in on ideas

Required Practical Design Skills
• 3+ years of experience with contemporary design, prototyping tools, and methods
• Robust design skills, including interaction design, layout, typography, and color
• Ability to clearly document interactions, edge-cases, & the various states of these experiences through deliverables such as user flows, wireframes, and prototypes
• Work within, and contribute to, our design systems as well as cross-platform visual systems and languages
• Understanding of usability & accessibility best practices across platforms throughout the design process, with a background in mobile preferred

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $110,000-$130,000.

Additional Information

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