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The Product Design team is looking for a passionate Lead UX Designer to join our cross-discipline user experience team solving complex problems for our customers in the legal space across the world. Our team loves solving tough problems and we hope you do too. Our work spans mobile, tablet, and desktop mobile experiences for all types of users. The team focusses on high-quality execution and high collaboration with our partners in product management and product engineering. It is an exciting time to work for Thomson Reuters as we move to bring the next-generation of legal experiences to our customers.
About The Role
As Lead UX Designer, you will:
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Model – You set the bar for your team by establishing what great design means at Thompson Reuters. You look for opportunities to influence our designs, ensuring the team is delivering on expectations that support impactful customer experiences. You attract and develop great talent while elevating your existing team. You contribute to the practice of design to identify and implement improvements to products, people, and processes.
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Coach – You create and communicate clear goals for your team outlining the expectations that support the delivery of meaningful work against the teams’ OKRs. You establish a trusting relationship with your team as well as your peers creating partnerships that build on ideas and excel understanding. The effectiveness of the team is a direct correlation to your ability to lead them.
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Care – You provide guidance and direction to focus your team on delivery. You hold yourself and your team accountable for the success of your product(s) and always ground your decisions in data. Through supportive behavior, you nurture the wellbeing and success of your team. As a leader, you are an inspiration for team etiquette and inclusion, building on diversity as well as demonstrating progress.
About You
You're a fit for this position if your background includes:
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BA/BS in graphic design, fine art, visual communications, HCI or related field (or equivalent industry training / experience)
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Familiarity with: Web standards (W3C and 508) / best practices for interaction design and Accessibility
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Strong portfolio of work that illustrates your process, your level of craft and the results you have driven
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Familiarity with Agile development
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Confidence in working with strong, passionate, fast-paced team environment
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Strong time-management, multi-tasking and prioritization skills
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Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
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Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
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A minimum of 10 years relevant experience
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Proven track record of working with and leading successful cross-functional teams and working collaboratively across multiple disciplines
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Experience leading and mentoring junior staff
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Experience working with user research and usability testing to inform design decisions
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Confidence and experience in presenting concepts, designs and research findings to internal stakeholders and clients
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What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:
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Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected
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Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
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Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
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Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
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Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
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Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.
We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
Accessibility
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
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