Job Description
Senior Product Designer (UX)
EUROSPORT / TNT SPORTS
Senior Product Designer
UX design knowledge and experience compulsory
Overview
Warner Bros. Discovery is looking for a Senior Product Designer to join the Global Product & Design organisation with a focus on Sports. In this role you'll help the team at Eurosport and TNT Sports create innovative, cross-platform experiences, enhancing the Global Sports Platform and product portfolio. This role will contribute to and support projects across the entire
product lifecycle and multiple product launches. You'll utilise a full range of skills including creating user flows, user journeys, user interface design, interaction design, prototyping and visual design to bring these experiences to life.
Role Summary
As a Senior Product Designer, you will be responsible for defining user experience and interaction design for multiple complex features across both web-responsive and apps. You'll regularly use empathy, logic and your knowledge of user-centred design to inform writing and design choices for cross-functional and cross-platform projects. The successful candidate will
work collaboratively and transparently while maintaining high standards regarding best-practice, accessibility standards, etc. to influence product vision as part of a multidisciplinary team. This is a senior level role where you will work closely with product, development, editorial, advertising and marketing teams to deliver product experiences that will place Eurosport digital
and TNT Sports properties ahead of the market.
Areas of Responsibility
Reporting to the Design Manager, the Senior Product Designer will be responsible for supporting the design team with delivering design solutions for various projects across the Eurosport and TNT Sports brands.
• Understand the sports user base and their values deeply; always fiercely advocate from their perspective.
• Create valuable experiences that are delightful to engage with and are incredibly easy to-use.
• Work as part of a distributed cross-functional team, producing design solutions for product epics, new features and product improvements across web, mobile and connected TV.
• Present to senior stakeholders, helping them understand how our design solutions benefit our users and the business.
• Design flows, interactions and experiences that are simple and elegant across various platforms, leveraging customer insights, data and user research.
• Rapidly produce multiple concepts and prototypes; knowing when to apply pixel-perfect attention to detail, and when to make low-fi sketches and prototypes.
• Create and maintain design documentation to ensure a smooth collaboration with tech.
• Incorporate UX research tools, data, personas, competitive analysis, and metrics to help shape the user experience
• Support and collaborate with other designers, product managers, engineers, researchers, editorial and content teams to develop the experience of a product from concept until launch.
• Contribute to methodologies and team processes for best practice.
Selection Criteria Essential
• You have at least 5 years of experience with customer-facing products that have an active user base, designing across platforms as a product designer, user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect or similar role.
• You are able to communicate design concepts clearly and persuasively and articulate design decisions well.
• You have deep empathy for customers and other humans.
• You have great attention to detail.
• Experience with creating journey maps, interaction flows, wireframes, and prototypes.
• Working knowledge of relevant design software eg. Figma, Adobe CS and experience with Invision, Principle, After Effects or related prototype software.
• You have a strong portfolio that demonstrates your digital product and interaction work.
• You have experience working to solve difficult problems and deliver compelling products.
• You have a proactive attitude and strong time management skills. You share suggestions and take initiative for what needs to be done, rather than wait for detailed instructions.
• You're comfortable working in a fast-changing environment where continuous innovation is valued.
Ideally, you'll have this too:
• Experience in designing Sport / News products with sports data.
• Experience in designing Video on Demand products / OTT services.
• A deep understanding of how audiences interact with these services across responsive web, mobile and connected TVs/ devices.
• Experience in designing video on demand subscription services.
• Experience of working in a digital media/broadcast company.
• Experience applying User-Centred Design processes across multiple platforms/ technologies.
Applications submitted without a portfolio will not be considered. When showcasing group work, please specify your personal contribution to the project.
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