Wikimedia Foundation - Senior UX Designer

• The right person is better than the right set of experiences. These are the traits we’ve identified that make great additions to our team so far. • Can communicate their design goals and processes clearly and concisely to other team members and stakeholders. • Provides constructive feedback to other designers and welcomes feedback from others. • Experienced in conducting research, as well as collaborating with UX researchers, to build a deeper understanding of audience behaviours. • Is able to generate ideas for the future as well as think tactically about how to deliver work in the present. • Is self-motivated and seeks to evolve their skills and share what they’ve learnt with others. • 5+ years of experience contributing on design teams. • Bachelor's degree and/or Masters degree, or equivalent in related work experience • Additionally, we’d love it if you have... • Background in content consumption, publishing, education, or news • Experience acting as a researcher, both in-person and with remote participants • Have familiarity with Free Knowledge and/or Open Source communities • Speak more than one of the nearly 300 languages of the users you’ll be designing for • Attendance of mandatory design team meetings weekly on: • Mondays from 14:00-15:00 UTC (10:00-11:00 ET / 7:00-8:00 PT) • Tuesdays from 14:30-16:00 UTC (10:30-12:00 ET / 7:30-9:00 PT) • Thursdays from 14:00-15:30 UTC (10:00-11:30 ET / 7:00-8:30 PT) • Availability for team meetings and synchronous collaboration with primary product team from 14:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC (10:00-14:00 ET / 7:00-11:00 PT) • The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive. • The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA. • News from across the Wikimedia movement • Wikimedia Blog • Wikimedia 2030