Design Technologist
NPR
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Full Time Job
As a Design Technologist, you will collaborate with researchers, engineers and product owners to build public-facing experiences and content management solutions. Part designer, part engineer, you will embed in project teams to help find new ways to quickly and iteratively test ideas; accelerating the design process while solving real problems. From ideation through production, your work will influence and inform every aspect of our process. In this role, you would work almost exclusively on podcasts, taking a broad look at the lifecycle—from creation to consumption.
What is Design Operations?
The Design Technologist works in the Design Operations unit (DesignOps), a unit in the Digital Media Design Group. We help designers work efficiently and effectively, creating an environment where good design is easy to do. DesignOps is responsible for the tooling, systems and processes that enable Digital Media Design to do our best work.
Why work at NPR matters
NPR audience values information, creativity, curiosity, and social responsibility – our employees do too. We are innovators and leaders in diverse fields, from journalism and digital media to product design and software engineering. Every day, our employees and member stations touch the lives of millions worldwide.
Responsibilities
• Create elegant and useful design systems that define the NPR digital experience across platforms.
• Distill complex interactions into clear, understandable design solutions and communicate them to stakeholders
• Collaborate with researchers, engineers and product owners across projects to create rapid visuals and test interactive prototypes that make ideas tangible.
• Work with your project team to determine the right tool for the job. You might build a paper prototype to quickly validate an assumption one day, and build a high-fidelity prototype using our React-based design system the next.
• Partner with engineers to work on micro-interactions and polish-level details, making flat comps come to life.
• Research and propose new ways of building prototypes across presentation, logic, and data services tiers and documenting your methods and processes along the way.
• Ensure that the work we do meets our standard of quality and works with established design systems and patterns.
Required skills
• Fluency in modern CSS and HTML standards.
• Experience working with interface design tools like Sketch or Figma.
• Experience working with a version control system (Git preferred).
• Ability to find your way around a directory using the terminal emulator of your choice.
• Ability to tell compelling stories about your work and present it confidently to your team and stakeholders.
Bonus points for
• Passion for podcasts and inventive about methods for their creation, discovery and distribution.
• Interest in building plugins that leverage the APIs of platforms like Sketch, Figma and InVision to supercharge our design workflows.
• Willingness to contribute to open source projects and publish new work to the open source community.
• Interest defining new paradigms for prototyping in code.
• Proven track record of designing and helping to ship successful products and services.
• Familiarity with modern JavaScript and related frameworks like React.
• Familiarity with mobile programming languages like Kotlin or Swift.
• Experience with a build system like Gulp or Travis.
• Experience with a scripting language, like Python or Ruby.
Please apply online through our career site athttp://www.npr.org/about/careers/.
NPR offers a competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package including health and wellness benefits, retirement, and work/life balance programs, as well as opportunities for career growth and development. NPR is an Equal Opportunity Employer. To be considered for this position. Please make sure to submit your resume, cove letter, and portfolio when applying.