Senior Product Designer Digital

POSITION OVERVIEW
Are you interested in what's going on in the world, and are you a reader? Do you feel excited about designing the next generation of a world-class AI-integrated news reading experience? Do you love engaging with people (i.e., teammates, stakeholders, and customers) to bring about innovation? If so, read on!
As Senior Product Designer, you will be a part of the core team that creates compelling user experiences for The Globe and Mail's website and apps. Bring your experience building and shipping complex applications and software to play a key role in ensuring that we continually evolve the user experience to be personally rewarding for our readers.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Design world-class experiences that will increase audience engagement and support editorial storytelling in a way that feels simple, elegant, and understandable
Break down and solve problems through the full range of UX activities from problem definition, concept development, prototyping and testing, creating new UI elements - all of which will elevate the user experience across all digital products
Conduct research and feedback sessions with our readers to explore problems and iterate design solutions
Continuously collaborate with other designers, your product manager partner, developers, and stakeholders in other departments from discovery through to delivery.
Contribute to our evolving design system to ensure consistency across platforms and products
Contribute to our product strategy and grow your professional self as you evangelize the impact of your great work and learning across the organization.
QUALIFICATIONS
5+ years of experience designing digital products
Your passion for user experience and design thinking, a strong desire to be innovative within the news, content publishing, and media industry
Demonstrable conceptual thinking and clarity in oral communication and documentation
Orientation to detail with your ability to work quickly to create wireframes, interaction design, design specifications, and finished front-end designs
Experience talking to customers and facilitating user feedback sessions
Experience working with a design system:
you know UX best practices inside and out and can proactively contribute to evolving the system
Experience working with data and metrics:
proven ability to translate both qualitative and quantitative improvements to the user experience
A positive attitude that embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace:
you're open-minded, mature, and willing to improve your skillset and work through constructive feedback
A solid understanding of how digital tech works to facilitate effective communication with your engineering partners; Basic front-end coding comprehension such as CSS, HTML.
Your portfolio should include case studies that demonstrate:

Problem framing and opportunities to support user and business needs
The process by which you develop your solutions, the constraints and potential trade-offs you encountered
Your criteria for success and how you measure your solutions and outcomes
What you learned from the process and how it's made you a better designer
NICE TO HAVE
Experience outsourcing work such as illustration, working with agencies
Experience leading design workshops with team members and stakeholders
Experience designing software that uses AI and machine learning
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