Senior Product Designer

The Irish Times Group

Dublin

Hybrid

EUR 70,000 - 100,000

Full time

2 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance Contribution

Pension Contribution

Sick Leave Cover

Maternity and Paternity Leave

Irish Times Premium Digital Subsripton

Income Protection Policy

Corporate Gym Membership Discounts

Free Digital GP and Life Assurance

Job summary

The Irish Times Group is seeking a Senior Product Designer to shape and deliver high-quality digital products across web and mobile platforms. This hands-on role involves discovery through to prototyping, visual design, delivery and iteration, collaborating with Product, Engineering and editorial teams.

You’ll translate customer problems into usable experiences, advocate for users, and contribute to and evolve the design system while ensuring accessibility and inclusive design.

Qualifications

5+ years hands-on product design experience for web and mobile products.
Portfolio demonstrating expert-level UI execution and deep UX research/problem-solving.
Strong UX, interaction and visual design skills.
Strong Figma and prototyping skills.
Experience conducting user research and usability testing.
Experience with design systems and accessibility.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end design from discovery to delivery and iteration.
Represent the user perspective and balance user needs with business goals.
Conduct user and market research, usability testing and concept validation.
Design across responsive web and native apps, maintaining a consistent experience across products.
Contribute to and evolve the design system with accessibility in mind.
Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, facilitate workshops and communicate design thinking clearly.
Understand business and product context to shape solutions.
Mentor junior designers and raise overall team quality.

Skills

Product design

UX research

UI design

Figma

Prototyping

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Ambiguity tolerance

AI-assisted design

News/publishing domain

Tools

Figma

Arc XP

WordPress

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Piano/Zephr

Job description

Location: Hybrid / Dublin, Ireland
job type: Fixed term / Full-time
Sector and subsector: Product and Innovation | UX/UI Design
Salary: Competitive salary

The Company

The Irish Times Group is Ireland's leading independent quality news publishing organisation. The core activity of The Irish Times Group has evolved from six-day print publishing to a seven-day multi-platform news publisher with a market-leading position in subscriptions, audience engagement and digital innovation.

We focus on producing trusted journalism for our readers, providing media solutions for customers and continuously evolving our products, platforms and ways of working in a rapidly changing media landscape.

The Company is owned by The Irish Times Trust and is managed by The Irish Times DAC. In recent years, The Irish Times Group has expanded its interests to include the Irish Examiner, The Echo, regional newspapers, RecruitIreland.com, MyHome.ie, RIP.ie, The Gloss, Score Beo and other leading Irish digital brands.

The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to help shape and deliver high-quality digital products and experiences. This is a hands-on, multidisciplinary role spanning the full product lifecycle, from discovery and research through to prototyping, visual design, delivery and iteration.

You’ll work closely with Product, Engineering and wider stakeholders to understand customer problems, identify opportunities and turn ideas into clear, useful experiences. The role will suit someone who is comfortable with ambiguity, can bring structure where needed and knows when to be pragmatic and move forward.

Responsibilities

End-to-End Ownership: Lead design from discovery through to delivery and iteration, creating journeys, flows, prototypes and polished UI. Test ideas quickly before investing heavily in solutions.
User advocacy: Represent the user perspective, balancing customer needs with commercial goals and editorial integrity.
Research: Conduct user and market research, usability testing and concept validation, translating insights and data into clear product decisions.
Product Ecosystems: Design across responsive web and native apps, maintaining a consistent, high-quality experience across the Group’s products and titles.
Design System: Contribute to and evolve our design system while championing accessibility and inclusive design.
Collaboration & Facilitation: Work closely with multidisciplinary teams, facilitate workshops and clearly communicate design thinking, decisions and trade-offs. Utilise AI to help process when it useful.
Product Thinking: Understand the wider business and product context, helping identify opportunities and shape solutions rather than simply responding to briefs.
Feedback & Mentorship: Give and receive constructive critique and provide guidance to junior and mid-weight designers to raise the overall quality of the team.

Qualifications and Experience

5+ years of hands‑on product design experience, ideally across high‑traffic web and mobile products.
A portfolio demonstrating expert‑level UI execution and deep UX research/problem‑solving.
Strong UX, interaction and visual design skills.
Strong Figma and prototyping skills.
Experience conducting user research and usability testing.
Experience working with design systems and a good understanding of accessibility.
Strong communication, presentation and facilitation skills.
Comfortable working in fast‑moving, cross‑functional teams and managing design work across multiple priorities.
Ability to move between strategic thinking and hands‑on execution.
Comfortable working with ambiguity, learning quickly and stepping beyond traditional design boundaries when required.
Experience with AI‑assisted design and prototyping tools such as Figma Make, Lovable or similar, and an understanding of how these tools can support the product development process.
Experience in news, publishing or subscription products.
Brand or marketing design experience.
Experience with Arc XP, WordPress, Salesforce Marketing Cloud or Piano/Zephr.
Basic understanding of front‑end development and design-to-code workflows.

If you are excited by content, technology, storytelling and the future of journalism, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact while working on challenges that are both technically complex and highly visible.

The Irish Times Group operates a hybrid working policy.

Our benefits include Health Insurance Contribution, Pension Contribution, Sick Leave Cover, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Irish Times Premium Digital Subscription, Income Protection Policy, Corporate Gym Membership Discounts, Free Digital GP and Life Assurance Policy.