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UX Designer II, All Recipes

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Job Description

I. Job Summary | Major goals and objectives

People Inc. is the largest digital and print publisher in America. From mobile to magazines, nearly 200 million people trust us to help them make decisions, take action, and find inspiration. People Inc. has more than 40 iconic brands, including PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Verywell, Food & Wine, The Spruce, Allrecipes, Byrdie, REAL SIMPLE, Investopedia, and Southern Living. We are building engaging experiences that excite users and amplify the voices of our brands.

We are looking for a User Experience Designer II to help define experiences for our engaging food sites and utilities, Allrecipes and MyRecipes. In this role, you will craft engaging, functional, and elegant experience design solutions based on a deep and empathetic understanding of our users' needs. You will partner closely with our Product and Engineering teams to quickly iterate on product definition and ship new features, quickly. Listening to users and gathering feedback from them will also be super important in this role. Experience with user research is highly desirable.

In this role, you must be collaborative in your approach to internal stakeholders, while simultaneously and vigorously championing the consumer experience.

As a UX Designer II at People Inc., you will be responsible for collaborating on user research, translating business requirements into concrete ideas, and refining and iterating on those ideas for delivery to engineering teams. You will help design the overall functionality of our products and iterate upon it to ensure a great user experience.

II. Essential Job Functions

Weight % | Accountabilities, Actions and Expected Measurable Results
60% | User Experience Design
Use business requirements, user stories, and data to produce user flows, wireframes, prototypes, high fidelity mockups, and rigorous user interface specifications.

30% | Collaborate with Design and Product teams
Partner with UX researchers to validate assumptions, test designs, and understand user data.
Present design solutions and build consensus among a broad range of stakeholders.
Participate in and lead brainstorming and critique sessions that foster big-picture thinking while identifying opportunities to raise the bar on the details.

10% | Process Management
Collaborate with broader UX Team to develop and implement best practices.

III. Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements | All must be met to be considered.

Education:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and experience.

Experience:
4-7 years as a UX Designer for mass-market Web and Mobile products.

Specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Strong user experience skills including user research, usability testing, and interaction design.
Experience designing, planning, and building interactive prototypes suitable for validating design decisions with users.
Excellent written and verbal communication.
Familiarity with atomic design methodology and an interest in the challenges that come with building and maintaining design systems.
Expertise in UX software such as Figma. Basic HTML and CSS skills are a big plus.
A solid grasp of user-centered design and testing methodologies, subsystems, and usability and accessibility concerns.
Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and stakeholders distributed across the country.

To be successful in this role, we'd expect you to:

Thoroughly understand the wants and needs of our users.
Translate user needs and business requirements into concrete ideas, wireframes, and mockups.
Build interactive prototypes suitable for validating design decisions with users.
Apply creative problem solving to the design, processes, and tooling of the system itself.
Document design guidelines, share knowledge, and collaborate with the engineering team to ensure products ship on time and as designed.
Help lead our efforts to build accessible digital products (A11y and WCAG), building awareness and accountability across the rest of our product organization.

It is the policy of People Inc. to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Accommodation requests can be made by emailing hr@people.inc.

The Company participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees.

Pay Range

Salary: New York: $90,000 - $105,000
Washington: $90,000 - $105,000

The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of People Inc's total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses, and short- and long-term incentives.

In addition, People Inc. provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, unlimited paid time off (PTO), adoption or surrogate assistance, donation matching, tuition reimbursement, basic life insurance, basic accidental death & dismemberment, supplemental life insurance, supplemental accident insurance, commuter benefits, short term and long term disability, health savings and flexible spending accounts, family care benefits, a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program, 10-12 paid holidays annually, and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents), all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with People Inc. and your work location. We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance.