[FT, Remote] UX Prototyper / Interaction Designer at New_ Public

[Min Li Chan]

Are you interested in imagining and building healthy digital public spaces? New_ Public is an energetic, fully remote team, co-founded by Eli Pariser, Deepti Doshi, and Talia Stroud, and we're funded by the Knight Foundation and Omidyar Network, among others.

Here’s some recent coverage about New_ Public and the work we do:

• The Atlantic (“How to Put Out Democracy’s Dumpster Fire”)
• WNYC (“Imagining Our Social Media Future”)

New_ Public is hiring across multiple roles!

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Role: UX Prototyper / Interaction Designer

New_ Public is looking for a UX Prototyper / Interaction Designer to lead our Community Lab’s efforts to prototype, test, and iterate on design patterns and product concepts in service of healthy digital public spaces.

You will work cross-functionally with your colleagues in Product, Research, and Design across a portfolio of projects to express product hypotheses as functional or experimental prototypes, so that the team can more tangibly analyze and evaluate civic impact.

Apply here. Please include a portfolio with your application.

Key responsibilities

• Communicate the user experience at various stages of the design process with wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, or and/or code.
  
• Deliver innovative, engaging, needs-driven, and community insights-informed prototypes using front-end technologies.
• Evaluate concepts and prototypes with users and select the best evaluation approach to achieve desired insights — observational or contextual studies, in-person moderated usability testing, virtual unmoderated usability testing, etc.
• Participate in design sprints and workshops and help drive table facilitation.
• Contribute to improving research and design ops at New_ Public, ensuring we have the process and infrastructure to document and distill insights on an ongoing basis.
• Partner cross-functionally with product managers, researchers, designers, and engineers to evolve promising prototypes into production-ready beta products for real-world testing.

About you 

• Deep knowledge of front-end technologies and ability to prototype seamlessly on mobile and desktop, across the spectrum from scrappy to high-fidelity.
• Deep understanding of people-centered interaction design principles and co-creative design methods.
• Proven experience validating design concepts and prototypes through user interviews and user testing.
• Familiarity with design justice frameworks and facilitating or participating in inclusive design workshops that lead to tangible outputs.
• Able to thrive in startup environments where roles and processes have not yet been refined.
• Able to collaborate across cross-functional teams and contribute to discussions about scoping and trade-offs.
• Demonstrated interest in healthy public digital spaces.
• Excellent communication skills, leads with kindness & curiosity, particularly while partnering with small, tight-knit & diverse teams.
  

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Other currently open roles at New_ Public include:

• Head of Studio Operations
• Operations Manager