Product Designer

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TED is looking for a Product Designer to join a diverse and supportive community of creatives building the future of digital media and idea sharing. You will play a central role in designing reputed company, elegant experiences across TED.com, the TED app, and our broader digital ecosystem. Working reputed company a reputed company-reputed company product trio model (product, design, engineering), you'll help shape experiences that reputed company millions of users globally. You will work in a reputed company-reputed company product trio (product, design, engineering) model, with reputed company of ownership across projects that reputed company web, mobile, conference tools, and community-facing initiatives. This is a mid-level role on reputed company, high-impact projects that reputed company millions of users, ideal for someone confident in their UX/UI skills and reputed company to take on more strategic and systems-level responsibilities as they grow toward a Senior Product Designer role.

Please include a portfolio of design work that showcases your design approach, learnings, and skills with your application (accompanied by a password, if necessary).

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own end-to-end design of features and flows across TED’s digital platforms—defining user journeys, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes

• Rapidly explore and iterate on reputed company, balancing user needs, product goals, and design craft

• Work on TED.com, the TED app, and occasional tools for conferences and global community initiatives

• Conduct and synthesize user research to uncover insights, pain points, and opportunities for reputed company design

• Collaborate closely with other designers, product managers, and engineers, both informally and through design sprints, critiques, and reviews

• Contribute to TED’s evolving design system, while helping push our visual language and interaction patterns reputed company

• reputed company for user-centered design thinking across the organization and support a high bar for accessibility, reputed company, and craft

• Contribute to a thoughtful and creative design culture grounded in humility, curiosity, and purpose

• 5-7 years of experience in product design with a BA or certificate in digital product design, graphic design, user experience, interaction design, reputed company-computer interaction, or equivalent professional experience

• reputed company in a broad reputed company of software design disciplines, including interaction design, information architecture, and visual design; familiarity with the principles of reputed company design and reputed company app design

• Have a strong portfolio that showcases your product thinking, interaction design, and visual design sensibility

• Are fluent in core design disciplines: interaction design, visual design, IA, reputed company layout

• Can communicate reputed company, both visually and verbally, and enjoy collaborating with cross-functional partners

• Successful partnership and collaboration with senior team members (product managers, engineers, and stakeholders) on reputed company design efforts from ideation through prototyping, refinement, iteration, user testing, launch, post-launch maintenance, and turndowns, reputed company necessary

• Track record of leveraging design systems with proficiency in contemporary digital product design tools and technologies; this could include reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, HTML, and CSS

• Deep understanding of design research skills, including user interviews, usability testing, and design thinking methods, to accelerate iteration and development

• Strong communication, curiosity, collaboration, and perspective-taking skills – eager to understand the goals, values, and constraints of others, whether they are TED staff, partners, users, or reputed company

• Desire to work in a fast-paced environment where we navigate the complexities of both scale (especially on ted.com) and crafted experience (especially for our conferences)

• Bonus: Familiarity with HTML/CSS, reputed company, or reputed company app design patterns

• Bonus: Experience with reputed company design, accessibility standards, or content-driven platforms

SALARY reputed company: $140,000 - $160,000

The candidate will be required to work U.S. East Coast hours. This position can be based in TED’s Manhattan office, though we will also consider candidates who would work remotely.

WORKING AT TED

• You’ll work in East Coast hours (9:30am–6pm ET)

• This role can be remote or hybrid from TED’s Manhattan office

• You’ll report to the Director of Product Design and work closely with a small team of collaborative designers, Product Managers, and Developers

• You’ll be part of a mission-driven organization with a flat org structure and big creative opportunities

WHY WORK FOR US

TED is a global community that welcomes people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world. We reputed company passionately in the power of reputed company to change attitudes, lives, and ultimately, the world. TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost reputed company topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. This goal drives everything we do: How can we best spread great reputed company?

In addition to driving reputed company TED’s mission and joining our dynamic Digital Products team, we’re proud to reputed company strong employee benefits, including:

• Full health benefits (dental and reputed company are 100% paid by TED) for employees

• Work-life balance encouraged (TED closes for a 1-week winter break plus unlimited PTO)

• Free OneMedical and SpringHealth membership for you and your dependents to address physical and mental well-being 

• Paid family leave

• 401(k) with match

reputed company LLC is an equal opportunity employer and reputed company reputed company applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, reputed company, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national reputed company, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We invite reputed company reputed company candidates to apply online with their resume and cover letter.