Product Designer Full Time

Global

Job Description

Product Designer

Reporting of the role

This role reports to the Lead Product Designer Commercial & Technology

Overview of job

We are looking for an experienced, hands-on Product Designer to join a small product design team that sits in the Commercial Technology department, within the wider digital team of product, development, content, analytics, video and social. You will be designing products to help us run our business and manage our classic and digital audio, including radio and podcasts; as well as outdoor inventory (including TFL) to make our colleagues’ and partners’ jobs easier.

The role is semi-autonomous, meaning you will have a strong influence over some big and important products and a chance to create them your own. We are looking for someone who is going to settle into the role with a long-term dedication and relish this challenge. We are a friendly and close-knit team and work in a highly collaborative, agile environment

3 best things about the job

• Working in agile multidisciplinary teams as part of a fast-paced tech business!
• Getting involved in the end-to-end Product Design process and having the opportunity to develop your skills in all areas
• Working on one of the industries leading digital platforms used for trading digital audio and out-of-home advertising

Measures of success –

In the first few months, you would have:

• Planned, conducted, and delivered research
• Designed new product features and services in collaboration with our skilled team.
• Fully understood and contributed to our digital design system.
• Established strong working relationships with teams across Technology, Insights, Commercial, Marketing and beyond.

This is working together with the rest of the design team, who are there to help and support you with everything

Responsibilities of the role

• You will be encouraged to be able to work independently. The rest of the design team is there to support you, but you’ll need to be able to take ownership and responsibility for the design of the projects assigned to you
• Design delightful, usable, engaging practical user experiences as part of a coordinated Product, Design, and Development team on our digital products.
• Define user flows, site maps, templates, interaction models, UI design and specification, design system modular approach, design prototypes, and any other artefact that might be useful.
• Identify and articulate user needs, build prototypes to test internally and through external user research, aggregate and analyse the data, and refine solutions in the face of data and other findings.
• Contribute to the definition and creation of flexible, coherent design systems and component libraries.
• Adapt designs based on feedback from internal partners, data research and user feedback, generating multiple design explorations and design iterations.
• You will need the ability to work on several projects at any time and be positive and personable in your communications with confidence in presenting ideas and designs to teams and partners.

What will you need

The ideal candidate will be proactive and willing to develop and implement innovative solutions, capable of the following:

• You’ll know how to use industry-standard design tools (i.e. Sketch, Miro, Dovetail).
• Experience in analytic and research tools such as Google Analytics or equivalent, and experience with micro-surveying tools such as Refiner would also be good.
• You’ll have proven experience in designing products and features for desktop and adaptable web, with a mobile app or PWA design experience being a bonus.
• Experience in working in an agile development team environment, with confidence in how your design role fits into this collaborative dynamic.
• Passion for identifying, measuring, analysing and solving real user problems with proven experience in the technologies and techniques required for conducting analytical & user research.
• Solid intuition and a passion for detailed interaction design and how that translates for the brands.
• Understanding of the balance required between flexibility and conviction, knowing when each approach is appropriate in a wider project context, alongside the ability to know which practical approach is best to solve particular problems – i.e. when a quick sketch will do or when a detailed prototype is needed.
• Experience with and enjoyment of creating, extending and maintaining component libraries across different platforms, products and brands – we are looking for a modular thinker.
• Experience with and enjoyment of working on large, ongoing, in-house projects.
• Ability to prioritize work, communicate progress and deliver on time.
• A passion for audio products and their potential.

Please include a portfolio with use cases in the application.

Applications without a portfolio will not be considered.

Everyone is welcome at Global

Just like our media and entertainment platforms are for everyone, so are our workplaces. We know that we can’t possibly serve our diverse audiences without first nurturing and celebrating it in our people and that’s why we work hard to create an inclusive culture for everyone. We believe that different will set us apart, so no matter what you look like, where you come from or what your favourite radio station is, we want to hear from you.

Although we cannot make guarantees, we welcome conversations about flexible working for all roles at Global