Lead Ux Designer

.Dow Jones Lead UX Designer in BARCELONA, SpainJob Description:Excellence in news demands excellence in our customers' experiences. Our Technology Group brings together Product, UX, Engineering, PMO and Operations 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 a Lead UX Designer to work with the UX Design team, combining innovation and usability to contribute to the creation of the world's leading design ecosystem from a product perspective. While this is an individual contributor role, you'll have the opportunity to direct and mentor junior designers and take initiative to lead projects.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.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. This will be a highly collaborative role requiring partnerships with SMEs, Editorial, UX Architecture, Engineering, Customer Insights and Product.The Lead UX Designer will report to the Senior Manager, UX Design