Product Designer

Universal Music Group; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading music company in London seeks a Product Designer to design user experiences and oversee the development of a cross-platform design system. The role demands strong design skills, strategic thinking, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. A successful candidate will have a strong portfolio in user-centric design and proficiency with design tools. This position offers various benefits including a pension scheme and medical insurance.

Benefits

Group Personal Pension Scheme (3% to 9%)

Private Medical Insurance

25 paid days of annual leave

Subsidised Gym Membership

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing and shipping multiple features in a tech-driven environment.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating user-centred design and visual craft.
• Profound understanding of technical boundaries and implementation.

Responsibilities

• Design flows and experiences that simplify complex requirements.
• Maintain and contribute to existing Design Systems.
• Drive a partnership with product managers and engineers.

Skills

Strong interaction design experience

Strong visual design experience

Excellent communication and presentation skills

Proficiency with UX/UI design tools

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Overview

Music is Universal
It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world’s leading music company. From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, including alternatives to the online form or to disclose a neurocognitive condition, please email [e-mail].

The A Side: A Day in The Life

The design team is a small yet agile group that collaborates with Product Owners, Business Stakeholders, and Development teams to deliver creative design solutions across various formats. The team's skill set is diverse, with particular expertise in UX/UI design, as well as extensive experience in print, motion graphics, and brand identity. The primary goal of the team is to establish and deliver creative design solutions, set the standards of the visual identity and enhance the user experience for products and services across Universal Music Group, Universal Music Publishing Group, and Universal Production Music.

As a Product Designer, you’ll be responsible for gathering requirements from key Business Stakeholders, Product Owners, and Development teams, taking ownership of our cross-platform design system and helping shape the components, patterns and framework that our design team uses every day. You\'ll help us build the pieces that take Universal to the next level and unite the business. You won’t be doing it alone, you\'ll be working with a super talented team of Designers, Engineers, Product Owners and Analysts who care deeply about our products.

The B Side: Skills & Experience

Key Responsibilities

• Design flows and experiences that simplify complex requirements into intuitive and functional interfaces
• Maintain and contribute to our existing Design Systems
• Design new product experiences that evolve and define visual systems
• Contribute to strategic decisions around the future direction of our products
• Give and solicit feedback from designers, stakeholders and the broader product team in order to continually improve quality
• Present work to the broader product team and other leaders, clearly and succinctly articulating the goals and concepts.
• Drive a partnership with product managers, engineers and stakeholders in order to oversee the user experience of a product from conception until launch and beyond

Must have

• Strong experience designing and shipping multiple features that are broad/ambiguous in scope and encompass an end-to-end experience across a variety of platforms in a tech-driven environment
• Strong interaction design experience with knowledge to define how an experience should behave based on understanding users' needs, plus consideration of how this product will scale. Use appropriate prototyping tools to demonstrate how a particular flow or interaction will work
• Strong visual design experience with proficiency in typography, desktop/mobile UI, colour, layout, iconography and aesthetic sense and how these elements impact product function
• Strong experience with strategic product thinking and experience in developing product goals, identifying opportunities, and making decisions based on the impact to users and the business
• Happy working as part of a small design team
• Enjoys ownership of both practical & strategic product design work
• Strong portfolio demonstrating user-centred design, visual craft, and problem-solving skills
• Willingness to take responsibility for the overall quality of products, proactively seek solutions
• Proficiency with UX/UI design tools (e.g., Figma, Adobe Creative Suite)
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions to designers, product managers, engineers and stakeholders
• Pixel-perfect eye for small details that take designs to the next level whilst understanding the balance between pragmatism vs. perfection
• Confident working with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, iterative environment
• Profound understanding of technical boundaries and implementation
• Can work collaboratively and independently
• Contribute to the vibrant culture within the business

Nice to have

• Experience working with B2B products, dashboards and desktop experiences
• Solid understanding of Design Tokens
• Motion design experience

Bonus Tracks: Your Benefits

• Group Personal Pension Scheme (between 3% and 9%)
• Private Medical Insurance
• 25 paid days of annual leave
• Interest Free Season Ticket Loan
• Holiday Purchase scheme
• Dental and Travel Insurance options
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Salary Sacrifice Cars
• Subsidised Gym Membership
• Employee Discounts (Reward Gateway)

Just So You Know…
The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However, the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholder\'s specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore, the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement.