Designer (UX)

Wppmedia; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

WPP Media is seeking a UX Designer to join a cross-functional product team and deliver world-class UX solutions for clients. You will work closely with designers, developers and other digital professionals to research, prototype, test, and iterate user experiences that meet real people’s needs while delivering commercial value.

You will drive design across the full lifecycle, from discovery and research to production, testing, and refinement, ensuring the final product is crafted to high

Qualifications

• Collaborative with cross-disciplinary teams to craft innovative product experiences.
• Empathy-driven design focusing on real user needs and outcomes.
• Balancing user goals with business objectives and brand constraints.
• Ability to connect design activity to broader product strategy and value.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with designers, developers and other professionals to deliver world-class UX products.
• Explain design rationale and methods to stakeholders during projects.
• Advance designs from problem framing through production and iteration to high-quality craft.

Skills

Collaborative

Empathy

Commercial design

See the big picture

Make effective decisions

Job description

About WPP Media

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by ourpioneeringagentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.

WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working.

For more information, visit wppmedia.com.

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Role Summary and Impact

Choreograph is WPP’s global data products and technology company. We’re on a mission to transform marketing by building the fastest, most connected data platform that bridges marketing strategy to scaled activation.

We work with agencies and clients to transform the value of data by bringing together technology, data and analytics capabilities. We deliver this through the Open Media Studio, an AI-enabled media and data platform for the next era of advertising.

We’re endlessly curious. Our team of thinkers, builders, creators and problem solvers are over 1,000 strong, across 20 markets around the world.

Designer (UX)

Working collaboratively with designers, developers, and other digital professionals within a product team, you’ll create world-class products and services that meet the needs of real people, and equally, provide commercially successful solutions for our clients.

Working in partnership with clients and peers, you will be working within the full product lifecycle by conducting a range of research, design, and experimentation methods. You will be proficient in explaining why your chosen design method is suitable in each individual situation.

From problem through to a solution, you will continue to progress the design through production, experimentation, and build ensuring the final product experience is delivered to the highest standards of craft and utility.

Skills and Experience

• Collaborative - working with other disciplines and clients in your product team to define innovative and effective product experiences
• Empathy – always forming and testing ideas, designs, and solutions with the needs of real people in mind.
• Commercial experience design – balance user goals and business objectives with brand, time, budget, and technology.
• See the big picture – Ensure your design activity is contributing to the wider product strategy and adds customer and commercial value.
• Make effective decisions – use sound judgment, data, evidence, and peer support to arrive at decisions and advice

As a designer in UX, you will be able to call upon past experience working across a few clients or design problems to help you run your design activity.Essential

• Select, plan and perform appropriate user research and testing activities
• Create design artifacts as appropriate; for example personas, user journeys, sitemaps, process flow diagrams, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes
• Working with specialists to shape the brand, content, and interaction layers
• Establish and maintain productive working relationships with front-end developers
• Peer review and critique projects throughout design and development for experience quality, usability

Desirable

• Knowledge of modern product management and development practices
• Utilise experimentation to help inform product decisions and guidance
• Attend client meetings to present work and make recommendations

Leadership

Essential

• Self-leadership – be responsible and accountable for your own actions and growth. Ensure you are always seeking to improve your work and the world
• Design activity – be responsible for delegating or conducting appropriate design activity to drive the product forward.

Desirable

• Programs of work – Select design methods and lead the definition of appropriate programs of work needed to meet any specific design challenge.

Life at WPP Media & Benefits

Our passion for shaping the next era of media is powered by our commitment toBe Extraordinary, investing in our employees to inspire transformational creativity. We alsoLead Optimistically,firmly believingin andChampioning Growth and Developmentfor every individual. This commitment allows WPP Media employees toleveragethe extensive global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, build vital professional connections, and learn at thecutting edgeof marketing and advertising.

WeCreate an Open environmentbuilt on trust and respect, where everyone feels they belong and has opportunities to progress. This inclusive culture is fostered through a variety of employee resource groups and frequent in-office eventsshowcasingteam wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our comprehensive benefits package reflects this commitment, including competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.

WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We believe the best work happens whenwe'retogether, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection in this open and supportive environment.That'swhywe’veadopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If yourequireaccommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

Please note this is a UK based role and requires individuals to have the right to work in this location

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