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Senior Product Designer

Discovery

London, United Kingdom 03-05-2021
 
  • Paid
  • Full Time
  • Senior (5-10 years) Experience
Job Description
Responsibilities

The Role

As Senior Product Designer, you will be responsible for designing great visual customer experiences for entertainment and sport users. You will be familiar with designing across multiple devices, spanning mobile, web, smart TV, connected devices and consoles; ensuring that our users have a best-in-class digital experience. This role will also require you to design for a global audience and the challenges it represents. It's our aim to make discovery+ the leading sport and entertainment platform in the world.

Requirements

Key Accountabilities
• Work alongside UX, Research and Product to define and produce best in class product designs.

• Work closely with development teams to ensure that design specifications are correctly implemented.

• Design ownership of a platform, product mission or both.

• Participate in and contribute to UXD Workshops and Post Project Reviews.

• Play an active role in meetings with the wider business team members.

• Champion a solid design process and vocalise opinions and ideas to the business and the project team.

• Work with and mentor the junior members of the team.

• Contribute to the design operations and how we work with our global UXD teams.

• Contribute and lead the development of our Design System.

Required Background and Skills:
• 6+ years in-depth knowledge and experience of user interface design with consumer applications, preferably within the media, sport, telecommunications and broadband industries

• A strong grasp of current trends

• You are a champion of user-centred design, looking to solve real problems.

• Are comfortable working alongside UX designers, Research, Product Owners, Delivery managers and tech leads.

• Have a proactive approach to challenging yourself and your team to do better

• Have ability to prioritise effectively while remaining focused on value

• Thrive when presented with complex requirements.

• Enjoy collaborating at any given opportunity.

• You must be able to confidently and clearly communicate your thinking to the wider product team and stakeholders.

• Must be resilient to a fast moving and often changing environment.

• Be open to sharing your work. This is a highly collaborative team.

Desirable
• Experience of UXD in OTT, online streaming, VOD. Specifically creating designs that: Drive video consumption, Onboard new subscribers to a premium experience, Inform and delight in a multi-language environment

• Experience in designing for sport based products.

• Experience working on design systems.

• Experience working on global products with different languages.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g391w9-3-146-255-127-42 in your application.

Company Profile
Discovery

Discovery, Inc. is the global leader in real life entertainment. We serve passionate fans with content that inspires, informs, and entertains, providing leadership across deeply loved and trusted brands, such as Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, HGTV, Food Network, and Travel Channel.