UX Architect, Factiva

**Job Description**:
UX Architect, Factiva

Excellence in news demands excellence in our customers’ experiences. Our Experience Group brings together Product, UX, Technology, Program Management, and Customer Research with a single purpose: to connect people to the news that matters most when they need it and where they need it by creatively defining and building connected, innovative and sustainable experiences/products that are data informed and with a customer lens.

We are looking for an Experience Architect to work with the Experience Architecture team, combining innovation and usability to contribute to the creation of the world's leading design ecosystem from a product perspective.

In this role you will move projects from concept to concrete solutions by optimizing experiences for our readers, working with Product and the Director of Experience Architecture to conceptualize solutions, map user flows, implement information architecture, build prototypes for testing, and create wireframes and detailed functional specs. Your expertise should bring an understanding of modular design and design systems to contribute to a scalable, sustainable approach that enables speed to market, evolution, and optimization.

This will be a highly collaborative role requiring partnerships with SMEs, Editorial, Experience Design, Technology, UX Research, and Product.

The Experience Architect will report to the Director of Experience Architecture.

**Responsibilities**:

- Bring industry best practices and a familiarity with metrics to your solutions
- Bring an eye for information design and a knowledge of information architecture to create experiences that are both data-rich and elegant
- Optimize and communicate the larger story of how our users will interact with a product through user flows
- Collaborate on improving the architecture of our digital products and the use of metadata to organize and connect content
- Collaborate on wholistic navigational solutions that encourage site exploration and connect brands
- Create solutions that meet both customer needs and business objectives
- Facilitate the design process through wireframes and prototypes
- Contribute to the creation of interaction patterns in our design system
- Explore and validate solutions by creating prototypes for and actively participating in user testing
- Incorporate recommendations and analysis from our Customer Insights and UX Research teams
- Translate business objectives into detailed functional specifications to ensure rapid development of projects
- Coordinate on ensuring we meet requirements for accessibility
- Independently deliver on projects and work with others on teams
- Last but never least, serve as an advocate for our readers, keeping their needs at the heart of our digital solutions

Required Skill Set:

- Minimum of 3 years experience in a similar role
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Strong grasp of UI, HCI and UX principles
- Understanding of best practices for mobile, web-based and responsive design
- Experience in user and screen flows, conceptual and detailed wireframing, and prototyping tools
- Experience working with Design Systems
- Experience working with Agile
- Experience working with Figma
- A strong portfolio that demonstrates your experience and UX skills, illustrating step by step solutions for features
- A portfolio that displays a clear examples of deliverables
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Plus
- Experience in the design of News or Financial Services
- Familiarity with WCAG accessibility standards and compliance

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets.

Business Area: TECHNOLOGY - PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Job Category: Design Technology Group

Req ID: 32558