.Job Description:Junior Designer, Design SystemsExcellence in news demands excellence in our customers' experiences. Our Technology Group brings together teams covering Product, UX, Engineering, Operations and Data with a single purpose: to connect people to the news that matters most, when 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 a Junior Designer, Design Systems to work with the Design System team, combining innovation and usability to contribute to the creation of our leading design ecosystem from a product perspective.OverviewIn this role you will create experiences that engage and appeal to customers, enhance our usability and improve the user experience through the use of imagery, color, shapes, typography, and form, ensuring our experiences appear trustworthy, informative and true to our brand. The ideal candidate should have a passion for user-centric design and the tools and processes that make it happen. You'll evangelize the Design System throughout the organization and expand the Design System to multiple products.Your expertise should bring an understanding of component based design and design systems to contribute to a scalable, sustainable approach that enables speed to market, evolution, and optimization.You will be part of transforming and optimizing the impact, productivity, and scalability of UX at Dow Jones.This will be a highly collaborative role in a team partnered with SMEs, Editorial, UX Architecture, UX Design, Engineering, Research, and Product.The Junior Designer, Design Systems will report to the Senior Manager, Design Systems.Responsibilities:Help support and maintain Dow Jones' design systemContribute to the creation of components in the design system to make them reusable and expandable across our products, constructing component libraries, guidelines, and templatesWork closely with Experience Architects and Experience Designers, as well as Design Technologists to design and update componentsProduce detailed hand off documentation for developmentEnsure that the Figma library is kept up to date and is built with best practicesBe open to industry best practices and visual design principles to your solutionsContribute to the creation of visual patterns in our design systemExplore and validate solutions by creating/modifying prototypes for user testingCollaborate with the Accessibility Lead to ensure the design system has appropriate accessibility standards implemented and testedContribute to the design team's culture through collaboration, feedback, and process iterationIndependently deliver on projects and work with others on teamsServe as an advocate for our audience, keeping their needs at the heart of our digital solutions
