Description
The Wall Street Journal, part of Dow Jones) has an immediate opening for a UX/Information Architect to be their Mobile IA Lead for all products, including The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch and Barron’s.
We’re looking for someone who:
- Is passionate about mobile and innovative experiences
- Defines "experience" as multiple platforms, from features phones to interactive TV, as well as smart phones and tablets.
- Defines "mobile" as both native apps and responsive design
- Has experience working with integrated teams that include product, design and technology, and communicating UX decisions to groups across an organization.
Job Responsibilities:
Provide expertise and communicate best practices
Conceptualize projects from description to detailed specifications:
- Work with the Product team to translate business goals into interactive solutions
- Produce creative concepts, prototypes and storyboards to communicate solutions to core team and major stakeholders
Contribute to user research and usability testing:
- Create testing materials and conduct user tests
- Provide iterative solutions based on user feedback
Create documentation used by Business, Development and QA:
- Site Maps
- User flows
- Detailed wireframes
- Functional requirements
Last, but never least
- Advocate for the end user
Required Skills/Experience:
- 3-5 years experience creating mobile solutions. Experience managing a small team a plus.
- Knowledge of mobile platform trends, emerging interaction patterns and the human interface guidelines for native platforms (with a focus on iOS and Android)
- An understanding of Responsive Design
- Experience wireframing and prototyping native mobile applications across platforms.
- Experience creating personas, user flows and conducting user tests
- Knowledge of user-centered design and usability heuristics
- Degree in a related field, such as Information Architecture, Architecture, Industrial Design, or Human Factors a plus
- Experience with Agile a plus
Additional Information
Local candidates only, no relocation (Greater New York City Area).
When you join Dow Jones, you become part of one of the most dynamic, creative and savvy news and information companies in the world. As a global leader in news and business intelligence, we're newswires, websites, newspapers, apps, newsletters, databases, magazines, radio and television--including some of the widest-read and most-respected brands, like Factiva, The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and MarketWatch. Our media inform the discussions and decisions that are vital to the world's commerce, while our databases make the business world more transparent. We continually develop technology to transform information into insight and insight into prosperity. From 58 countries and in a dozen languages, we enlighten and inspire audiences with authoritative, differentiated and trusted content
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