Product Designer

Job Description

Role: Product Designer
Location: London Bridge
Contract: Permanent

The Times and The Sunday Times are Britain's most trusted news brands, renowned for delivering authoritative, credible, and award-winning journalism. With a rich heritage-The Times founded in 1785 and The Sunday Times in 1822-we are committed to challenging, inspiring, and informing our readers. As a subscription-based business experiencing consistent growth, we are dedicated to delivering exceptional digital experiences to our subscribers.

Team: You'll be joining the Product Design team, which defines the digital product experiences for mobile apps, newsletters, subscriber journeys, and editorial publishing tools. Our mission is to deliver clean, engaging ways of attracting customers and telling stories, ensuring our journalism is presented in the best possible way.

Role: We're looking for a self-motivated Product Designer with a passion for solving problems and creating seamless user experiences. You'll play a key role in developing a suite of products that engage our subscribers, ensuring they have the best possible experience when interacting with us.

Day-to-Day You Will:

• Apply human-centred design principles to create impactful changes through smart, data-driven UX implementation. Deliver industry-standard web and app user experiences.
• Conduct customer interviews, use research tools, test designs, and analyse data to understand user needs and validate design decisions.
• Maintain weekly touchpoints with customers, creating a feedback loop with frequent testing and iterative improvements.
• Champion and contribute to the evolution of the design system, ensuring consistency and excellence across product experiences.
• Facilitate working sessions with cross-functional teams, balancing stakeholder opinions to create optimal outcomes.
• Think outside the box to solve problems and develop innovative solutions, bringing enthusiasm and stakeholders along with you.
• Meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment with both short-term and long-term goals.

What We're Looking for from You:

• Product Design Expertise: A track record of impactful UX implementation and strong knowledge of web and app user experience standards.
• Design Tools: Proficiency in industry-standard software such as Figma and research tools like UserZoom.
• Communication: Strong ability to collaborate across disciplines, confidently sell ideas, and facilitate discussions with cross-functional teams.
• Attention to Detail: Passion for product design trends and delivering seamless, user-centred solutions.
• Research and Data Analysis: Ability to use customer feedback and data to inform and validate design decisions.
• Design System Knowledge: Experience championing and contributing to design systems.
• Technical Understanding: Familiarity with HTML and CSS to understand the structural components of the web.
• Cool Under Pressure: Ability to deliver high-quality work on time in a fast-paced environment.

If you believe you have the skills and passion to succeed, even if you don't meet every requirement on the list, we encourage you to apply. We value potential just as much as experience and are eager to hear from individuals who are enthusiastic about learning and growing with us.

At News UK, we know the value of working together, which is why we operate a hybrid working policy with a minimum of three days a week in the office. Being in the office allows us to collaborate, innovate, and thrive as a team in our vibrant and dynamic workspace.

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 print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform 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.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual's potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy , which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
• 'Bikes for Work' and 'Electric Car' scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• 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%
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

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