Mid Level Product Designer
News UK
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Job summary
News UK is seeking a London-based Product Designer to influence roadmaps, drive discovery, and improve digital products for its News Broadcasting brands. You will partner with product managers, business analysts and developers to deliver customer-centric features that test in real-world contexts.
You will balance user needs with business goals, contribute to design systems, and craft interactive prototypes for testing with stakeholders and customers.
Qualifications
- Experience across web, mobile web, and native apps.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams.
- End-to-end design from strategy to UI.
- Knowledge of design systems and how to contribute to them.
- Strong ideation and validated concept development.
- Experience presenting to senior stakeholders and communicating decisions.
Responsibilities
- Follow our UXD process and advocate for the way we work.
- Champion testing methodologies and validate projects with users.
- Ideate, create deliverables, scamps and interactive prototypes.
- Use data and insights to support decisions.
- Develop journeys from lo-fidelity through to prototypes for research and development teams.
- Act as the voice of the customer to challenge assumptions.
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Job description
Join our London-based News Broadcasting product team as a customer-centric Product Designer. You will collaborate with product managers, business analysts, developers, and stakeholders across the business. Your key responsibility will be to influence product roadmaps and drive the discovery process to continuously improve our digital products.
You’ll have a passion for design & technology. You’ll be hands‑on and willing to work in a fast-paced, ever-moving environment. You’ll keep up-to-date with the latest advances in technology, design trends, and tooling.
- Follow our UXD process and be an advocate for the way we work
- Champion testing methodologies and ensure all projects are validated with users
- Ideate and create deliverables, scamps, and interactive prototypes
- Continuously look for data and any insights to back up decision-making
- Work with the team to build out journeys at lo‑fidelity all the way through to prototypes to better visualise products and features, for user research, stakeholder communications, and for development teams
- Continuously being the voice of the customer and thoroughly testing everything we do to eradicate assumptions
- Work closely with colleagues within the wider UX&D teams to ensure learnings are being shared across the board so there's awareness of projects
- Ensure the conceptual designs balance customer and business goals
- Champion modular design, usability, and accessibility standards
- Work in a fast-paced environment and be able to work across multiple projects at one time
- Continuously problem‑solve and want to gain a deeper understanding of our customers
- Stay abreast of innovations in UX best practices, tools, and topics of interest to the community and help infuse them back into the team
- Experience working across web, mobile web, and native apps
- Experience in working in collaborative environments alongside other disciplines
- Experience working end‑to‑end from experience strategy to finished UI.
- Knowledge of and practical experience working with and contributing to design systems.
- Strong ideation skills and the ability to form these into solid validated concepts
- Strong experience in various testing methodologies.
- Capable of working in a fast past environment to tight timescales
- Experience working with senior‑level stakeholders
- Creative and conceptual thinker
- Advanced prototyping skills; experience in one of the following - Figma, InVision, Flinto, Principle etc.
- Strong presentation skills; story‑telling with every project with documentation where necessary
- Ability to communicate and articulate design decisions to the team and stakeholders
- Ability to manage time well and respond to time constraints accordingly
- Relationship building and stakeholder management
- Previous experience or an interest in news and publishing would be an advantage.
Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.
We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.
At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee‑led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.
- Private medical insurance including coverage for pre‑existing conditions
- Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/ virtual exercise classes
- ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
- Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
- Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
- Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
- Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
- A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
- Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year
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