Product Design Manager

The Philadelphia Inquirer is a public benefit corporation owned by the nonprofit Lenfest Institute for Journalism. Together, we're at the center of a critical mission to create a lasting future for ambitious, engaging, and useful local journalism. We're doing this, in part, by deepening our connection with the communities we serve. Our integrated digital and print platforms are the Philadelphia region's largest media network. We're passionate about building a sustainable model for indispensable local journalism, and we take pride in finding diverse, dynamic, and talented individuals to help push our team forward.

Title

Product Design Manager

Summary

The Product Design Manager will lead our Product Design team, overseeing the career development and growth of five design professionals. She will be responsible for the quality and accessibility of our product designs, and will work closely with Product Managers to implement new features and with our Analytics team to measure their effectiveness. She and her team will be responsible for managing designs of all our digital products (website, app, email newsletters, etc.) and for interpreting our overall company brand guidelines into our products. This position reports to our Chief Technology and Product Officer

What You'll Do
 

• Establish and maintain a design vision and standard for our
  digital products
• Align our product designs and interactions with our brand guidelines, marketing assets and print product
• Collaborate with Engineering and Product to ensure initiatives are defined accurately and scoped carefully, and to discover
  alternate ways to reach goals
• With our Analytics team, use behavioral data to adjust interactions, and identify components that could benefit from A/B or
  multivariate testing
• Partner with our editorial teams on special projects,
  providing feedback
  and critique of ongoing projects
• Oversee a team of four designers and a user researcher,
  managing their career development and growth, and
  delivering constructive feedback with clarity and compassion
• Manage the workloads and priorities of your designers, as they
  align with Product Managers and may have multiple ongoing projects
• Effectively speak to process, design goals, and team vision
  with cross functional partners, executives, and stakeholders

Who We're Looking For

• Five years or more of experience designing digital products for
  consumers (experience with media and information products is a plus)
• One year or more of experience mentoring and managing careers of designers and researchers
  (including training, work assignments, prioritization, etc.)
• Experience working with engineers and product managers to improve strategy, vision, and execution and push the best
  work forward
• Experience balancing creative and analytical design goals, and
  making product and design tradeoffs
• Be an advocate for our readers; help drive empathetic, human
  centric design across all our products to solve true user problems
• Ability to solve complex UX and product strategy problems to
  deliver the best possible design solutions, with strong familiarity of
  industry best practices
• Experience building and nurturing a design process and team
  culture of iteration, inclusion, divergent thinking, and
  creative solution co-development
• Experience with building/iterating and promoting design systems
• Impeccable taste and understanding of high quality interaction design
• Familiarity with prototyping tools and bringing work to life
• Desire to support journalistic efforts, and alignment with our mission to inform and inspire the people in the Philadelphia region
• Friendly, respectful and collaborative in interactions with colleagues.
  You offer candid feedback about how they and the company
  can improve and expect it in return.

Other Things To Know

• Prior experience within a news or media organization, particularly in designing information experiences
• Portfolio of projects/products/processes that show innovative thinking around aligning user needs and company performance goals
• Familiarity with WCAG Web accessibility standards
• Familiarity with JIRA and Confluence
• Familiarity with Philadelphia or surrounding areas
• Familiarity with managing remote and mixed in-office / remote teams

* We know not everyone reading this will fit exactly what we've described. We encourage everyone to apply who shares our passion for indispensable journalism and our drive to create a sustainable business model to support it. As an equal opportunity employer, The Inquirer is committed to
fostering a diverse and inclusive culture, and we especially encourage members of underrepresented communities to submit an application, including women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and people with special needs*

* We know not everyone reading this will fit exactly what we've described. We encourage everyone to apply who shares our passion for indispensable journalism and our drive to create a sustainable business model to support it. As an equal opportunity employer, The Inquirer is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture, and we especially encourage members of underrepresented communities to submit an application, including women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and people with special needs*
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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