Product Designer

News UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media company in Greater London is seeking a passionate Product Designer to join their innovative team. This role involves developing engaging product experiences for their digital platforms while championing continuous improvement and collaboration. Ideal candidates should have a strong background in human-centered design and be adept in tools such as Figma. The position offers a variety of employee benefits, including private medical insurance and generous holiday allowances.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Discounted gym memberships

‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme

Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full salary

Paternity leave up to 2 weeks

Generous pension scheme

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Track record of impactful change through smart, data-driven UX implementation.
• Ability to facilitate cross-functional working sessions.
• Use customer interviews and data analysis to validate design decisions.
• Balance stakeholder opinions to create the best outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers to translate hypotheses into testable designs.
• Ensure rigorous component testing and clear approval processes.
• Drive alignment and educate users on the design system.

Skills

Product design capabilities

Experience with Figma

Strong communication skills

Attention to detail

Research and data skills

Continuous discovery mindset

Design system champion

Creative thinking

Industry experience

Coding knowledge (HTML, CSS)

Collaboration skills

Job description

Job Description

The Team: The product design team aims to deliver clean, engaging ways of attracting customers and telling stories. Our overarching aim is to deliver a beautiful product that serves our journalism in the best way possible, with new and innovative ways of reaching existing subscribers and attracting potential new readers. We’re an inquisitive team who love to talk design, take inspiration from each other, collaborate closely, and often lunch together.

You will join a team that defines the digital product experiences for thetimes.com, native mobile apps, newsletters, subscriber journeys and editorial publishing tools.

The role: You will be self‑motivated, have a fascination with solving problems, demonstrate strong attention to detail, and be at ease working independently or collaboratively as part of a team. You will be passionate about developing a suite of products that will engage our subscribers so they get the best experience possible when reading The Times and The Sunday Times.

You will be brimming with creative ideas and have a demonstrable interest in current affairs and culture.

This role is initially split between two growing areas of focus for the business:

The newly formed Experimentation team, collaborating closely with Product Managers to translate hypotheses into testable designs for features, flows, and UI elements. Acting as the design voice in stand‑ups and cross‑departmental planning sessions, clearly articulating the design rationale behind each test variant.

The Times Design System is being refreshed and widely relaunched, with success hinging on adoption across editorial, brand, product, and commercial teams. In this role, you’ll ensure rigorous component testing, clear approval processes, a healthy contribution model, and effective internal comms to drive alignment, educate users, and make the system a trusted tool across the business.

What we’re looking for from you

• Product design capabilities – understanding of human‑centred design principles and a track record of impactful change through smart, data‑driven UX implementation.
• Tools – experience with industry‑standard design software (Figma) and research tools (Userzoom, etc.).
• Strong communication skills – ability to collaborate and sell ideas confidently, with experience facilitating cross‑functional working sessions.
• Attention to detail – keen to self‑evaluate work and open to feedback.
• Research and data – use customer interviews, testing and data analysis to validate design decisions.
• Continuous discovery – outcome‑oriented with weekly touchpoints, small increments and frequent testing.
• Design system champion – contribute to evolving system, understanding of design tokens for scalability and consistency.
• Creative thinking – think outside the box, encourage innovation and push product experience forward.
• Industry experience – ideally editorial / publishing or subscriber‑based product experience.
• Coding – understanding of web structural components (HTML, CSS).
• Collaboration – work closely with BA, engineering and stakeholders, balancing opinions to create best outcome.

This job is for you if…

• You love product design and are interested in news and current affairs.
• You enjoy collaborating with a variety of stakeholders, balancing opinions to create the best possible outcome.
• You value working at scale within a large corporation, contributing to the evolution of a historic legacy brand.
• Even if you don’t tick every requirement, we want you to apply – potential and passion matter.

Benefits

• Private medical insurance (including pre‑existing conditions).
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in‑person or virtual exercise classes.
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme.
• Up to 60% discount on HarperCollins books.
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary; paternity leave up to 2 weeks.
• Access to exclusive events, competitions and weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities.
• Wellbeing benefits – EAP, physio/massage and counselling.
• Generous pension scheme (employer contributions up to 5%).
• Wide range of training – full LinkedIn Learning access.
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year.