Senior UX Designer Wikidata all genders
Senior UX Designer Wikidata all genders
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DUE TO A HIGH NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS WE ARE UNFORTUNATELY UNABLE TO ACCEPT ANY FURTHER APPLICATIONS AT PRESENT.
For our UX Team based in Berlin we are looking for a Senior UX designer (all genders) (permanent contract) 3540 hours / week as soon as possible.
Wikidata is a free collaborativelycreated knowledge graph founded in 2012 by Wikimedia Deutschland. Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia Wikivoyage Wiktionary Wikisource etc. Its dataset has also been used externally by virtual assistants such as Apples Siri and Amazon Alexa.
Wikidata makes it easier than ever to build apps and services around Linked Open Data. It achieves this by empowering communities from all over the world to collaboratively collect and organize important data about the world.
As the UX Designer for Wikidata (all genders) you will collaborate inside of your crossfunctional team and work closely to its Product Manager and UX Researcher to identify key problems and ideate and deliver highquality inclusive and accessible solutions that will reach Wikidatas millions of users.
The role will report to the Head of UX and is part of the UX team which currently counts eight team members (UX Designers and UX Researchers). The mission of the UX team is to build an understanding of our users and their needs which will be translated into the journeys built in our different products. We aim at creating a better understanding of knowledge equity and to design digital experiences that empower users to contribute to the Wikimedia movement no matter their background or ability.
- You are responsible for designing and evaluating the user experience of Wikidata and its features in alignment with the Wikidata product strategy.
- You will work with personas user flows lowfidelity & highfidelity mockups and designs in order to demonstrate your ideas.
- You will use your skills and knowledge to support your team at the different stages of the product life cycle: from strategy to prioritization and from product discovery to delivery and evaluation.
- You will validate designs through design reviews and usability testing.
- You will work closely with product managers community communication managers and software engineers at every stage of the product life cycle.
- You will center the community of users and editors in your work finding frequent opportunities to include them with participatory methods throughout the product development cycle.
- You will distill complex concepts into easytounderstand designs and prototypes and validate them through design reviews and usability testing.
- You will follow Wikimedia design standards to create highfidelity UI designs and handover specifications for developers.
- You are experienced in defining use cases workflows interactions and interfaces which are easy to understand efficient versatile and follow industry best practices.
- You can handle complexity and are able to define experiments to progressively validate assumptions and bring more clarity and empathy throughout your team. Consequently you are familiar with conducting or supporting user research and other evaluation methods as well as designing and prototyping journeys (we use Figma).
- You have studied or are educated in a design related field or have gained similar competencies. You have a solid working experience as a UX designer.
- You are wellversed in recognizing and acknowledging existing design patterns as well as introducing new ones to make products usable and useful for our diverse community.
- Youre familiar with design systems and have experience applying and establishing internal design principles collaboratively.
- You have experience designing iteratively and working in close collaboration with the members of a crossfunctional team with e.g. product managers UX designers and Researchers community communication managers and engineers in an agile environment. Moreover you care about learning from your team members and sharing your knowledge.
- Next to your verbal communication abilities you use your written and visual communication skills to present your research plans and findings as well as rationalizing your designs to various stakeholders within your project. You can communicate in English on a professional level.
- You have a UX design portfolio ready to show and are able to add it to your application.
Having the following could set you up for success but they are not a musthave: - Experience designing technical and complex tools.
- Experience advocating for and designing for accessibility.
- Experience working with participatory or codesign methods.
Please note: Please send your portfolio with your application as it will be a crucial deciding factor about your application.
Due to a high number of applications we are unfortunately unable to accept any further applications at present.
Wikimedia Germany is committed to equal opportunities and does not discriminate on the basis of for example ethnic origin citizenship religion or belief political or other convictions gender age disability or sexual identity or orientation. We would like to adress you in the way which feels most comfortable for you so please share your preferred name and pronouns if you wish.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
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