Job Description
JOE is a new breed of digital publisher, and that means staying ahead of the game. We are the UK’s leading news and entertainment title for men, with a global audience of 13 million across all platforms. We’ve pioneered the way content and storytelling speaks to and represents our audience and we’ve been recognised with accolades and awards for our creativity and originality.
Awarded the Drum Social Media Team of the Year and DigiDay’s Publisher of the Year, we’re proud to be free-thinking, unorthodox storytellers for the modern man. Our content influences, informs and inspires men from every corner of the UK, and knits them together in a community of empowerment and inclusivity.
Over the past six years, JOE has developed a significant presence in British media. With hundreds of millions of views, publishing some of the most-watched videos on social media, from our world-famous headswaps to beating the broadcasters to the most-watched video of the 2019 election.
JOE took the podcast world by storm with shows such as the ARIA-nominated Unfiltered with James O’Brien and the massively successful House of Rugby, alongside JOE’s football show All To Play For. JOE’s written content is widely shared across social, from sharp and incisive news coverage through to longreads and feature content, and of course the institution that is the JOE Friday Pub Quiz.
WE’RE HIRING
We're looking for a freelance Senior UX/UI Designer to lead the redesign of our website. The chosen candidate will have proven experience designing high traffic news sites that provide a great user experience and are built to keep the reader engaged.
They will have experience conceptualising original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks. They will be able to create a modular website design that can be re-skinned to work across multiple publishing sites.
REQUIREMENTS
- End to end UX skills
- Ability to lead and ideate products from scratch and improve features.Experience wire-framing and working in Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD or similar tools. (Figma preferred)
- Ability to present their ideas and solutions to various stakeholders in an engaging manner
- Mobile first
- Multi-site thinking
- Experience designing for Wordpress