Language, Writing and Accessibility Specialist (Sr UX)

At Nielsen, we believe that career growth is a partnership. You ultimately own, fuel and set the journey. By joining our team of nearly 14,000 associates, you will become part of a community that will help you to succeed. We champion you because when you succeed, we do too. Embark on a new initiative, explore a fresh approach, and take license to think big, so we can all continuously improve. We enable your best to power our future. 
About this role
If you are a language, writing and accessibility design expert for digital experiences, we have the role for you! Join our team of UX experts around the globe as a contributing member at the core of our design system. We are proud of our culture of experimentation and constant learning. We appreciate a positive, self-starting attitude when working independently or in a team. If you are savvy with words and have extensive design experience, we have a great opportunity for you!

Responsibilities

• Establish the vision, tools, roadmap and success metrics to support localization, accessibility and writing for web applications.
• Generate localization, accessibility and writing guidelines across components and patterns
• Write and publish inclusive design and language principles for the design system
• Teach accessibility standards testing on the figma component libraries of the design kit and code library
• Contribute content to the design system website for localization, accessibility and writing standards for web applications
• Define common contextual examples for recommendation and guard against mis-use
• Assist in managing design system requests, questions and issue resolution in coordination with developers and product designers
• Engage in communication channels between development and design teams
• Collaborate closely with UX practitioners allocated to product design experiences for ingesting new patterns into the system
• Create and curate contributions for site content and oversee consistency in website content
• Contribute to project specific, product design work

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience with interaction design and visual design of digital products
• Proven expertise in language, writing and accessibility standards for the web
• High proficiency in Figma design tool; this is essential for our design system
• Experience designing complex SaaS or enterprise software showcased in a portfolio
• Proficiency with executing the full UX design life cycle - from preliminary research through journey-mapping, persona development, prototyping, usability testing, and interaction design with all relevant planning and deliverables
• Fluent English (in speaking and writing)
• Experience with project leadership planning and vision development

Skills and mindset:

• You’re a master of empathy both for the user and co-workers to enable you to communicate your findings effectively
• Attention for details, critical and analytical thinking skills and business acumen
• You have a deep curiosity for how users interact with a product or service and seek reasons behind their behavior, wants, and needs.
• A collaborative mentality with a desire for continuous learning
• Excellent communication skills - you can effectively establish an understanding and rationale of your insights and recommendations
• Ability to lead and work independently, balancing work on multiple initiatives
• Proficiency with design tools, such as figma or Axure
• Comfortable working in a large, international, corporate and cross time-zone environment with remote teams

Extra Points for

• Experience or keen interest in storytelling through data visualization
• Knowledge and background working in the marketing industry
• An academic degree in a relevant field