.Job Description:Lead UX DesignerExcellence 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.Responsibilities:Bring industry best practices and visual design principles to your solutions.Create solutions that meet both customer needs and business objectives.Collaborate with UX Architects on optimizing the user flow and overall experience.Create visual concepts that communicate the overall vision and approach for a project, developing the overall look and feel and delivering final designs.Optimize experiences by strategically implementing images, colors, fonts, and other elements in order to enhance a design or interaction, and engage users.Contribute to the creation of visual patterns in our design system.Maintain brand consistency while designing new products and experiences.Explore and validate solutions by creating prototypes for and actively participating in user testing.Incorporate recommendations and analysis from our Customer Intelligence and UX Research teams.Coordinate on ensuring we meet requirements for accessibility.Independently deliver on projects and work with others on teams.Be able to function as a UX lead for a project, independently organize and deliver on small to medium size projects, including detailed execution, approvals and stakeholder acceptance.Lead others in setting direction and scoping work accurately even with ambiguous, loosely defined projects