Job Description

Cond Nast is a global media company, home to iconic brands including Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Glamour, AD, Vanity Fair and Wired, and many others. The company\'s award-winning content reaches 84 million consumers in print, 367 million in digital and 379 million across social platforms, and generates more than 1 billion video views each month. The company is headquartered in London and New York and operates in 32 markets worldwide, including China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico & Latin America, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, the U.K. and the U.S, with local license partners across the globe. About Cond Nast Product and Technology Our mission is to empower our brands such as The New Yorker, Vogue, Wired, and Vanity Fair for business and creative success by creating the next-generation suite of content publishing and consumption experiences. We are a group of designers, product managers, engineers, strategists, and researchers dedicated to building innovative, user-centric products. About Our Design Team We are a team of experience designers with expertise in visual design, UX, interaction design, and research. We partner closely with editorial, product management, engineering, and business partners to strategize, design, and launch effective and beautiful digital products. We believe that a well-formed design culture is essential to delivering excellent products. Key Duties & Responsibilities We are looking for a smart, ambitious, and collaborative Senior Product Designer to craft user-centric solutions for multi-brand subscription and account products at Cond Nast. By partnering closely with design leads, researchers, UX writers, product managers, and engineers, you\'ll help launch and iterate on features that help users subscribe to our brands and manage those subscriptions. You\'ll join at an ideal time to make a big impact-working on a large new initiative focused on improving our acquisition, consideration, and conversion funnels (and the tools that power them) for subscribers and members during a time when the business is investing heavily in consumer revenue. The Subscriptions & Memberships Platform also enables Cond Nast\'s world-leading brands to connect directly with the people passionate about the topics they cover, creating new engagement and community experiences on our own sites and apps Essential Skills & Requirements As a designer, you\'re inspired to solve big-picture problems and expand your craft. You strive to create value, simplicity, and beauty for the user. You are enthusiastic about both doing and leading. Experience designing and launching subscription or e-commerce products Experience designing, launching, and iterating on quality user-centered web products Deep expertise in visual design and interaction design, with the ability to drive and enhance aesthetics Experience simplifying highly complex purchasing flows so they are easily understandable for users Experience with rapid prototyping, iterating, and refining design solutions based on user feedback Experience running user tests or working with UX researchers to define qualitative hypotheses, questions, and qualitative metrics Ability to draw from qualitative research and data analytics to uncover behavioral insights and inform design decisions A broad design toolkit (user journeys, wireframes, functional specs) and the experience to know when to use a particular artifact Ability to work within a design system, knowing when to iterate on existing components that are part of a large product ecosystem Ability to deliver iterative and experimental features with an understanding of how design decisions may affect long term product and technology ecosystems Understanding of web accessibility best practices As a teammate, you collaborate across all disciplines and levels. You possess the skills to rally collaborators around user-centered solutions. Experience creating alignment with product managers, engineers, researchers, marketers, and writers. Well-developed skills in identifying, prioritizing, and communicating design requirements Ability to support design leads by proactively driving the design process Eager to improve ways of working collaboratively and looking for ways to optimize internal processes Experience in effectively presenting design work to senior stakeholders while managing and addressing feedback from different sources A holistic approach to problem-solving; visual thinking and rapid synthesizing of information Understanding of how subscription products fit into the experience of each brand\'s site Experience working within a globally distributed team, or the desire to learn how As a peer and mentor, you raise the bar and inspire others. Ability to provide perspective and articulate the thinking behind your design decisions Involvement with the design community at large and knowledge of industry trends Possess and communicate up-to-date knowledge of UX best practices and competitor products Proactive work ethic, including the ability to take direction while also showing initiative As a peer and mentor, you show initiative and leadership skills within your project teams. Strong articulation skills; ability to establish a perspective and strategy behind design decisions Experience providing guidance to associate designers Ability to know when to set aside design and focus on the interpersonal aspects of work Contributes to the ongoing development of the Design Team\'s inclusive culture

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