Senior UX Designer
Location: Remote
Permanent
Hours: Full time
The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organization supporting Wikipedia and other Wiki projects. The Foundation operates one of the world’s top five websites and has global reach and impact. Technology and innovation are critical in our quest to support every human in freely sharing knowledge.
The Product Design team is looking for a Senior UX Designer with a solid understanding of user experience and product development processes to work within one of our multi-disciplinary product teams. You will be influential in creating and developing the user experience, feeding directly into the product strategy for your product team.
Must be available for design, product and engineering team meetings and synchronous collaboration from 14:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC (10:00-14:00 ET / 7:00-11:00 PT)
Creating prototypes and running experiments to iteratively test your hypotheses.
Using and evolving our design system and guidelines, to create new features from ideas on paper to implementation.
Collaborating with product managers and engineers to create product plans and maintain product design processes.
Distilling complex concepts into easy to understand talking points to engage with our readers and communities throughout the design process.
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.
- Experienced in conducting research, as well as collaborating with UX researchers, to build a deeper understanding of audience behaviours.
- 5+ years of experience contributing on design teams.
- Bachelor's degree and/or Masters degree, or equivalent in related work experience





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)

About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. 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. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.




As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries * . Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following:
US States : Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia*, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Recent Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico*, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming (*US Territory or Federal District)
Our non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR) and must have current work authorization in their location. (*citizens/permanent residents only)
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at View email address on remote1stjobs.com.

📌 Senior UX Researcher - (Remote) (Canada)
🏢 Wikimedia Foundation
📍 Canada