Sr. UX Architect, Publishing

**About Our Organization**:
Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world's largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America's largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron's, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor's Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

**About the Team**:Our Technology team drives the evolution of our Technology, Engineering, Data, Product and User Experience functions. With a keen focus on delivering cutting-edge solutions, we shape the digital landscape for our customers, readers, and users. From revolutionizing visuals to optimizing tools and harnessing the power of data, mobile, video, and social platforms, our team is committed to providing a seamless and immersive experience across all touchpoints. Collaborating closely with our newsrooms and strategic partners, we spearhead the development of groundbreaking products and technologies.** **About the Role**:
In this role you will move projects from concept to concrete solutions by optimizing experiences for our newsrooms, working with Product teams and the Manager of UX Architecture, Publishing 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, UX Design, Engineering, Research, and Product.

The Senior UX Architect, Publishing role will report to the Manager of UX Architecture, Publishing.

**You Will**:

- Collaborate with our news rooms to understand and meet editorial goals, and ensure that editorial workload, dependencies, and sustainability are understood and factored in the solution to a project.
- Bring a strong culture of Information Architecture to our publishing products, creating wholistic navigational solutions that encourage site exploration and connect brands
- Think across multiple systems in order to solve cross-tool workflow issues

**You Have**:

- Experience working with Design Systems
- Experience working with Agile
- Experience working with Figma
- At least 3-5+ years experience in a similar role
- Experience in the design of News or Financial Services
- Familiarity with WCAG accessibility standards and compliance
- Knowledge of Services Design and Service Mapping
- Experience with designing for CMS tools
- Understanding of best practices for mobile, web-based and responsive design
- Experience in user and screen flows, conceptual and detailed wireframing, and prototyping tools
- A strong portfolio that demonstrates your experience and UX skills, illustrating step by step solutions for features
- Experience in the design of News or Financial Services
- Familiarity with WCAG accessibility standards and compliance
- Knowledge of Services Design and Service Mapping
- Experience with designing for CMS tools

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Business Area: Dow Jones - Technology

Job Category: Software Product Engineering

Union Status:
Non-Union role

Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world’s top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Financial News.

This longevity and success is due to a relentless pursuit of accuracy, depth and innovation, enhanced by the wisdom of past experience and a solid grasp on the future ahead. More than its individual brands, Dow Jones is a modern gateway to intelligence, with innovative technology, advanced data feeds, integrated solutions, expert research, award-winning journalism and customizable apps and delivery systems to bring the information that matters most to customers, when and where they need it, every day.