UI Designer

About BBC Studios

BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe.

We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Bluey, Prehistoric Planet to Planet Earth III.

The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed, creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena.

From BAFTAs to RTS Awards, BBC Studios is Britain’s most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; we’re the home of bbc.com, the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK’s largest distributor of British content.

Digital News and Streaming

At BBC Global Digital News & Streaming, (a team situated within BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC) we aim to help people understand the world around them, make informed choices, and take an active part in society and democracy. As we expand our footprint to meet increasing demand for our style of quality and impartial journalism and unscripted content in North America, we are seeking motivated, passionate, high performing individuals across a variety of skillsets to join our global team. Our primary locations are New York, Washington DC, and London; we are seeking candidates whose location allows them to work hybrid from any of these offices.

Join us and be an essential part of one of the world’s most recognized brands and trusted news organizations!

The Role

As a UI Designer you will work as part of a wider product design org within a global division across countries and time zones, helping to build the future of the BBC product suite outside the UK. You will be an exceptionally skilled visual designer with advanced expertise in crafting high-end, polished digital experiences. Your work will be a combination of both short-term and long-term design thinking, hands-on design execution, design communication, and constantly improving the experience and visual design of our products.

Principle Accountabilities

• Responsible for the overall visual design and end-to-end product user interfacer experience for a global audience consuming our world class content across both existing and future products.
• Provide UI design expertise across responsive websites, mobile apps, and digital products for a global product suite.
• Understand UX principles but have a primary focus on creating visually impactful, sophisticated digital products.
• You have an impeccable eye for typography, layout, and visual hierarchy a sharp attention to detail aesthetic, bringing sophisticated, creative, user-centered sensibilities to life.
• Collaborate with wider design team to triangulate UX thinking and technical requirements to ship finished components.
• Work with stakeholders, business analysts, and product team to understand design requirements and expectations.
• Collaborate with research & insights to conduct relevant analysis and testing to investigate and validate design decisions.
• Contribute to cross function concept sessions on product solutions.
• Work in agile design sprints to constantly improve and iterate upon our product suite.
• Communicate design work to development teams through clear documentation, prototypes, design system contributions, and other handoff materials.
• Help maintain and evolve the product design system and component library.
• Work closely with the brand team to ensure visual design efforts within our products effectively represent the BBC brand
• Feed in to fostering a collaborative work environment, communicating your ideas and intentions across departments and creatively guide other designers.
  
  

Scope & Impact

• Reports to the Global Digital News and streaming Creative Director
• Contribute to the creative vision for the current and future states of the product, and ensure this vision is documented, communicated, and followed.
• Able to take charge of individual project or task delivery.
• Mentors or guides junior creatives in the team
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, And Professional Experience

• Extensive (3+ years) experience in digital product design/UX team environment
• News media experience a plus
• Relevant portfolio of recent work highlighting multiple projects demonstrating your contributions.
• Expert in industry tooling such as: Figma, prototyping, design systems
• Comfortable with digital remote communication and collaboration tooling such as: Slack, Miro, Dropbox, Zoom, Teams
• Comfortable presenting work to groups and stakeholders
• Keep pace with latest design trends and technology developments
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Designers need to be able to clearly and concisely articulate themselves and explain their ideas.
  
  

Are you the right fit?

As a global business, diversity, equity, and inclusion among team members is essential to our success. We therefore encourage highly skilled candidates from traditionally under-represented groups to submit their applications, even if they don’t check absolutely every box on our list of desired work experience.

Behaviors

An ability to work quickly in a high-pressure environment. Meticulous and detail oriented designer. Creative problem solver with ambitious ideas. Excellent stakeholder management skills with communication, diplomacy and collaboration in bounds. Self-motivation and the ability to positively collaborate with a team of skilled professionals. Maintain an active interest in culture, trends and habits of audiences consuming digital content.

Life at BBC Studios

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here.

The BBC is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce and therefore strongly encourages applications from underrepresented groups. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of their background. More information on our D&I plan can be found here.

BBC Studios puts sustainability at the heart of everything we do both onscreen and offscreen, including delivering against the BBC Group’s science-based Net Zero targets. More information on sustainability at BBC Studios can be found here.

We are proud to share that we are a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and we strongly encourage applications from disabled people. If you meet the minimum criteria for this role and declare that you are disabled, we will ensure to advance you to the next stage (minimum criteria above).

If you require any reasonable adjustments in order to apply please contact us on reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk.

What Will You Gain From Working At BBC Studios?

• Flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance
• 26 days holiday (plus an additional day which is a Corporation Day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days
• A defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more
• Excellent career progression – access to courses, webinars, workshops and the opportunity to work in different areas of the organisation
  
  

Package Description

Salary: Up to £40,500 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: Permanent role

Location: Office Base is London; Television Centre. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.