Senior Design Engineer, Content Production Technology
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NPRMultimedia, Public Media
This is a remote-permitted role. This role is based out of our Washington, D.C. office, but the employee may choose to work on a remote basis from a location that NPR approves. You will have the option of working (a) remotely from a location of your choosing within the United States that is supported by NPRFull-TimeSenior
Salary125,646.49 - 140,046.59 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- FigmaFrontend DevelopmentHTMLCSSJavascriptAngularReact
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience working in a hybrid UX Engineering, Design Technology, or Front-End Development role.
- Demonstrated portfolio of designing user-centered digital systems and publishing products at scale.
- Proven technical experience translating abstract design concepts into structured front-end development requirements.
- Excellent cross-functional communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of building alignment across editorial, design, and engineering cohorts.
- Strong technical aptitude, including the ability to actively participate in systems architecture, development tradeoff discussions, and release planning.
- Experience operating within digital media, journalism, or highly content-rich digital ecosystems.
- Highly proficient in HTML5, CSS/SCSS, and modern JavaScript frameworks (such as Angular or React).
- Expert level execution in Figma, creating everything from wireframes to highly interactive, micro-interaction models.
- Strong ability to conceptualize, scale, and document complex web layouts, information architectures, and modular component structures.
- Thorough understanding of WCAG 2.1 AA standards and semantic front-end coding best practices.
- Bachelor’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Science, Interaction Design, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
Responsibilities
- Bridge the gap between product design and engineering execution by translating high-level product strategy into clean, component-based wireframes and technical user experience pathways.
- Build functional, high-fidelity interactive code prototypes to validate design concepts with content creators and stakeholders before final development.
- Write production-ready front-end code, establishing standard styling patterns and providing immediate technical design resolutions to developers to optimize development cycles.
- Embed deeply within the Nexus and Grove CMS ecosystems, engineering faster, highly efficient publishing workflows customized to our editorial workflows.
- Partner directly with Product Managers, UX Designers, and engineering teams to co-develop functional requirements that maximize platform usability.
- Actively participate in NPR's broader design cohort, collaborating with specialists from NPR’s Product and Audience Technology (PAT) teams to scale design best practices.
- Work closely with NPR Editorial, Programming, and Music teams to maintain a deep operational understanding of publishing, distribution, and audience engagement requirements.
- Champion intuitive usability for both internal content creators and external public media audiences, ensuring that development paths prioritize user needs over technical convenience.
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