Wikimedia Engineering/Careers/Senior Designer

Create experiences that go beyond good design into delighting users.
 * Responsibilities
 * Work with our growing team of designers to create reusable design patterns that span desktop, tablet and phone.
 * Interact with our reader and editor community from the beginning to end of your design process.
 * Illustrate your designs with lightweight specs or living documents to engage with developers.
 * Be both design support for other functional teams as well as driving forward the product road map with your own ideas and features.
 * Distill complex concepts into simple easy to understand talking points to effectively articulate your vision with your team and the community.
 * Be active in soliciting feedback from your design team, as well as other functional groups, be active in reaching out to team members both in the office and remote.
 * Reduce, simplify, distill. Know how to let go. Create experiences that are effortless for users by reducing UI complexity down to its essential components.
 * Have great instincts for making design decisions and be able to support your choices with research and data.
 * Ability to tell stories that convey your design goals both internally to team members and to stakeholders.
 * Have a creative vision of your own while being able to work within the bounds of what is possible, and imagine what can come next.
 * Lead projects, be the glue that keeps a team together, work with designers, developers, community members, and product managers to see projects through successfully
 * Mentor junior designers and share knowledge with non-design staff to raise the overall level of design fluency within the organization.
 * Partner with Analytics team to deliver data informed design choices and work with Growth team to validate your decisions.
 * 6+ Years of experience solving complex product design problems, knowing when to borrow, copy, and steal, knowing when to reinvent.
 * Experience successfully defining a long term design direction for a product
 * Know when to switch from blue sky ideation to tactical thinking. Be able to deliver effective, constructive critique, and to listen and accept design criticism.