Product Designer

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.

We are News Broadcasting:

Driving digital innovation, our people create award-winning national radio, local radio, and podcasts which are must-listens for millions across the UK, Ireland and beyond. News Broadcasting is the UK's most digital broadcaster with 86% combined digital listening share, complementing its market-leading scale on visual platforms. The group contains the UK national brands of talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK, Times Radio, Talk and Onic radio stations in Ireland, including Dublin’s FM104, Cork’s 96fm and Limerick’s Live 95.

The Team:

The News Broadcasting product team looks after all digital products for Virgin radio, TalkSPORT, TalkRadio, and Times Radio as well as for our radio stations in Ireland. The core team is continuously working on projects with the aim of delivering best-in-class digital solutions, boosting competitiveness, and being the leading content provider of world-class audio content.

Your Role:

As a Product Designer, you will work closely with other team members to create new features and product enhancements that continuously improve the News Broadcasting product set. Your role will be pivotal to ensure that our ideas are reflective of the specific News Broadcasting brand and are brought to life to test with customers and excite stakeholders.

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.

Day to day, you will:

• 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

What we’re looking for from you:

• 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.

We are News UK:

One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News

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.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• 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

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role.