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Senior Product Designer, Email Newsletters

Employer
The Washington Post
Location
Washington, DC
Closing date
Oct 19, 2021

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Industry
Media / Journalism / Advertising
Function
Designer, Graphic Designer and Artist
Hours
Full Time
Career Level
Experienced (Non-Manager)
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Job Description


    The Washington Post is seeking a Product Designer to join its Product Design team. This team of UX, UI, visual designers and creative technologists leads design strategy and visual approaches for The Post's suite of digital products, including washingtonpost.com, our native iOS and Android apps, email, internal publishing tools, and paywall and account management experiences.

    In this Product Designer role, you'll focus on the UX, UI, branding, and visual design of our email newsletter experiences. Our newsletter content is published to millions of subscribers daily. The ideal candidate will have passion for designing email newsletter experiences and working with developers to build out across a variety of email platforms and clients. The role will include day-to-day collaboration with newsroom editors, engineering teams, and both news and product designers.

    You'll be part of a team of more than twenty-five designers. You'll collaborate with product managers and internal stakeholders across multiple teams to identify, ideate and propose new approaches to help redefine email newsletter experiences from The Washington Post.

    Here's what you'll be working on:
    • This role will be responsible for designing email experiences across multiple email platforms
    • Close collaboration with UX and design minded developers
    • Troubleshoot email campaigns across multiple platforms and email clients
    • Perform day-to-day email production activities including email campaign design, testing, deployment, and monitoring
    • Design rule-based email templates that integrate personalized dynamic content elements
    • Propose new A/B tests to improve our KPIs
    • Creating innovative experiences across our email newsletter product suite
    • Designing and presenting mockups, wireframes, sitemaps, user flows, and prototypes that adhere to user-centered design principles and email standards to produce high-quality visuals, from concept to execution
    • Working with other designers to establish style guides, standards, and design systems
    • Partnering with engineering, newsroom, and product leadership to ideate and create new features and experiences in our email newsletters
    • Work on the entire lifecycle of the product: research, user flows, prototyping, high fidelity comps, and collaboration with engineers on implementation
    • Identify opportunities for improvement in our products and process by leveraging your design experiences, email best practices and user insights to recommend solutions


    This ideal candidate for this role:
    • Must be hands-on with design for email newsletter experiences
    • Has experience with graphic design, UI design, typography, and editorial design in digital platforms and email
    • Constantly looks for ways to optimize our products and experiences
    • Loves to collaborate closely with colleagues in research, product management, engineering, newsroom and non-technical partners
    • Is organized, driven and excited about designing and developing for email
    • Can clearly and passionately articulate the thinking behind a design
    • Is energized by problem-solving and loves to develop solutions for difficult problems
    • Enjoys gathering user and project requirements to create conceptual wireframes, prototypes, and final designs for user-facing experiences
    • Is familiar with the always evolving landscape of best practices for email newsletter design and industry innovations
    • Loves designing through collaboration with partners across newsroom, engineering, and product management
    • Understands the capabilities and constraints of designing for email
    • HTML and Javascript development knowledge is a plus


    You have:
    • A portfolio that shows a strong body of work including outstanding visual and user interface designs, and cross email client development
    • 3+ years of design experience designing and developing for email platforms
    • An established track record of producing business results through design
    • A collaborative spirit and a proven ability to work well with others, building strong partnerships across teams
    • Comfort with design and prototyping software like Figma, Sketch, the Adobe Creative Suite, Invision, and Principle
    • Experience with or strong interest in digital media and news
    • A pure love for email design!


    The Post strives to provide its readers with high-quality, trustworthy news and information while constantly innovating. That mission is best served by a diverse, multi-generational workforce with varied life experiences and perspectives. All cultures and backgrounds are welcomed.

    The innovation doesn't end in the Newsroom - dozens of teams power The Washington Post. We are now hiring the next innovator - how will you Impact Tomorrow?

    #washpostlife

    Company

    Thank you for your interest in a career with The Washington Post. We invite you to review all of our open positions to find the one that's right for you. We look forward to receiving your resume!


    Since it first began publication more than 130 years ago, The Washington Post has grown into one of the most storied and respected news organizations in the world. A subsidiary of The Washington Post Company, today's Post is the indispensable guide to Washington. In print, we enjoy the highest penetration of any major metropolitan newspaper in the United States. On the web, we have the third largest news website with 17 million unique visitors each month, and have recently launched a celebrated news app for the iPad. We serve Washington in all media, on any platform, including paid products, events, and tailored content.

    More broadly, The Washington Post Company delivers quality products to today's students, readers and viewers. What unites our company is the immediacy of our products and services, created by teachers and tutors at Kaplan; reporters and editors at our media properties; and associates at Cable ONE.
    Washington Post Media views its employees as its most valuable asset and provides a comprehensive benefits package to promote healthy and balanced lives at work and at home. We offer competitive salaries, opportunities for training and career advancement and an outstanding, progressive benefits package including:
    Health and dental benefits
    Flexible healthcare and dependent care spending accounts
    401(k) and company-funded cash balance plan
    Life and disability insurance
    Tuition reimbursement
    Adoption assistance
    Domestic partner benefits
    Employee assistance program
    Employee referral program
     

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    1301 K Street, N.W.
     Washington
    DC
    20036
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