Product Designer, Chorus Services

Job Description

As the leading independent modern media company, Vox Media ignites conversations and influences culture. Across digital, podcasts, TV, streaming, live events, and print, we tell stories that affect our audience's daily lives and entertain as much as they inform.

Our portfolio features influential and respected editorial properties including Vox, New York Magazine, The Verge, The Cut, Eater, Vulture, The Strategist, Polygon, SB Nation, Intelligencer, Curbed, Grub Street and Recode. Off-platform, the Vox Media Podcast Network offers one of the largest collections of popular podcasts, and Vox Media Studios produces and distributes the award-winning nonfiction shows. Powered by innovative technology that scales quality, the Chorus publishing platform and Concert advertising marketplace answer the always-changing needs of modern audiences, creators and marketers.

Vox Media has been named one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Companies in Media,” an Inc. “Company of the Year,” Digiday’s “Best Company for Parents,” and one of the Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality by the Human Rights Campaign.

About the Role

We're seeking an experienced designer to be a core contributor on our Chorus team, our industry-leading platform for digital publishers. Informed by the success of Vox Media’s networks and internal branded content agency, Chorus is a complete media stack for brand and community building, content creation, audience engagement, distribution, measurement, and monetization. Within the Vox Product team, the Chorus team builds innovative tools that enable our editorial teams to tell compelling stories; design dynamic, engaging audience experiences that can travel across myriad platforms and devices; and ensure our editorial teams can learn from and continuously adapt within an ever-changing industry.

Designers on the Chorus team collaborate with thoughtful product, engineering, and editorial partners to create best-in-class tools and audience experiences for digital publishing. As a Product Designer, you will have the opportunity to have a strong strategic influence on our products, our process, and our team. You’ll be joining the team at a pivotal time as we expand Chorus to external partners and focus on turning Chorus into the best platform for digital publishing.

In this role, you’ll be a champion for innovative, boundary-pushing editorial design at scale, while working to onboard partners to the Chorus platform. The ideal candidate brings experience with CMS’s, strong knowledge of design systems, some front end knowledge, and an ability to translate brand design into component-based site design. You should be capable of self-direction, have experience pairing with developers and presenting to clients, have a passion for user-centered design, and a great eye for typography.

What you’ll do:

• Work with partner (customer) teams to deliver user experiences that are powerful, efficient, and delightful
• Understand and help shape the high-level goals of a project; articulate and help define the design approach
• Design rich editorial destinations that achieve business and user goals with Chorus capabilities
• Interpret brands for expression on the Chorus platform
• Prioritize accessibility through design
• Advocate for and execute user-centered design
• Contribute to process improvements and documentation
• Collaborate closely with PM, Design Directors, and Engineering on how best to tackle designs and execution on the Chorus platform
• Pair with Research to understand partner analytics, surveys, and other sources of user data
• Collaborate with engineers to vet feasibility, implement, and iterate on interactive designs
• Forge strong stakeholder relationships with product, engineering, and editorial teams to become a trusted partner
• Enforce and model the expected behaviors listed in our Code of Conduct and Ethics Guidelines
• Connect, converse, and collaborate with teams and individuals across all of Vox Media Design to learn, tackle new initiatives, and meet unexpected challenges.

What you’ll bring:

• 3-5 years of experience designing and shipping mobile and web products, with a portfolio that shows off your product and interaction work
• Experience working with CMS’s and design systems
• Demonstrated understanding of layout and typography
• Deep understanding of user-centered design and an iterative product design process
• A strong command of current web design trends with a curiosity for new technologies and a desire to innovate on how people engage with the news
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to present work strategically and effectively to a variety of audiences
• Experience working in a consultation or agency environment
• Curiosity for new technologies and a desire to innovate on how people engage with the news
• Enthusiasm for Vox Media and a desire to contribute to our design culture

For more on the things we're building and problems we're solving, and what it's like to work with the Product, Design & Technology teams, see our Product Team blog . In an effort to provide an inclusive and respectful working environment, all team members adhere to our code of conduct .

About working at Vox Media:

This is a permanent, full-time position with excellent benefits—including flexible hours and generous parental leave. Vox Media strives to provide comprehensive healthcare options for our employees and to ensure that our healthcare and other benefits are LGBTQ-inclusive. You'll be joining a group of focused, hard-working, creative people who are passionate about doing work that's challenging and fun—and who strive to maintain a healthy work/life balance.

Candidates can be based out of any of our US-based Vox Media offices, or may work remotely from anywhere within the major US time zones (Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific).

Vox Media is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and everyone is encouraged to apply. Vox Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law.