Product Designer, Live & Interactive Experiences

Job Description

Responsibilities
POSITION OVERVIEW:

At the NBC News Group, we're 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's important to them (and us.)
Our Live and Interactive Experiences team is growing, and we need a creative and innovative product designer to push the craft and execution of our most time-sensitive news experiences. You will help drive the future of how people get informed during high stakes and globally visible live events, like elections coverage, planned news events, or breaking news storylines. Your expertise and ideas will help us deliver best-in-class news experiences that millions of people depend on every day-and in life's moments when they need it most.

The Job:
• Work on a passionate, consumer-centric agile team to create and evolve our live coverage experiences for the upcoming elections and beyond
• Channel broader design vision and articulate product design strategy via visual storytelling and artifacts.
• Grow expertise and stay current on customer needs and behaviors as they apply to elections coverage and live experiences, working with Customer Experience and Research teams.
• Collaborate as part of a cross-functional team of product designers, engineers, product and project managers, editorial, and the Decision Desk to ideate and define opportunities
• Determine hierarchies of information and content flow, contributing to an architecture that evolves and grows over the election season
• Capture 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
• Be a core contributor and/or co-facilitator in product discovery, from research and synthesis to workshops and ideation
• Use data to inform design decisions and continually validate your work with real users
• Partner and collaborate with internal teams including research, editorial, marketing, broadcast, advertising, business development and others
• Utilize design thinking skills to gather insights and inputs from internal stakeholders
• Build low-fi to high-fi designs as needed in the product development process to run reviews and to gain buy-in on ideas.
• Collaborate with design peers and their teams to share learnings, leverage shared effort and ensure quality cross-platform experience

Qualifications/Requirements
• Deep knowledge of the primaries and general elections

space or passion for news and politics
• Strong design skills, including layout, typography, color,

and interaction design.
• Understanding of usability implications across platforms,

with a background in mobile preferred
• Proficiency with contemporary design, prototyping tools,

and methods
• Portfolio with examples of relevant, finished digital work

and their professional application
• Experience working with OKR, KPI or other goal

measuring framework
• Strong knowledge or understanding of HTML, CSS and

JavaScript.
• 3+ years' experience as a full-stack product designer

who utilizes a data-driven, human-centric approach to

product design and development.
• 3+ years' experience developing or contributing into

design systems
• 3+ years' experience with experience with Product

Discovery, Design Thinking, Lean UX
• Experience in the media, news, or technology/internet

Industries
• Preferred: Experience implementing accessibility best

practices and knowledge of considerations throughout

product process

Desired Characteristics
• A customer advocate who uses human-centered thinking

and empathy to understand customers' behaviors and

needs and create solutions for them
• Bring your innovation-style mindset to find better ways of

working, collaborating and finding efficiencies (for internal

and external users).
• Stays up to date with industry trends
• Exceptional presentation and visual communication skills
• Self-starter who thrives in ambiguity
• Take your work seriously, but not yourself

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