Your team: The Times Product Design team is a collaborative group of around twelve designers working across core reading experiences, subscriber journeys, and the essential editorial tools our newsroom uses every day. We design close to the action, sitting directly alongside editorial, product, engineering, and data teams to build digital experiences trusted by millions of readers. The work is varied, the environment is supportive, and our design standard is exceptionally high.
Your role: As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead a meaningful area of our digital ecosystem, shaping its product direction alongside engineering and product management partners. You will champion high design standards and act as a trusted advisor whom leadership leans on to make critical product decisions. This is an exciting opportunity to scale your impact on a world-class product while mentoring and lifting the designers around you.
Please apply with your CV and Portfolio Link.
Day to day you will:
Lead the end-to-end design strategy for a defined product area, collaborating closely with cross-functional partners from early conceptual thinking through to final shipping.
Set an exceptional standard for interaction design, visual execution, and prototyping, serving as a quality benchmark for the wider team.
Collaborate with user researchers to frame critical insights and seamlessly translate reader feedback into impactful product decisions.
Mentor less senior designers through regular design critiques and 1:1 sessions to support their professional growth and build team capabilities.
Contribute to our shared design system, shaping patterns that other teams use and continuously pushing our design practice forward.
What we're looking for from you:
A comprehensive portfolio of shipped digital product work at scale, demonstrating a deep understanding of user-centered design.
Proven experience leading the design strategy for a distinct product area and measurably improving user outcomes.
Strong research instincts, with a clear understanding of what to test, when, and why, alongside a history of partnering effectively with user researchers.
Demonstrated mentorship experience, whether formal or informal, showing a passion for helping other designers develop their craft.
Excellent communication and stakeholder alignment skills, with the ability to confidently hold your ground and bring editors, product directors, and engineers along on the journey.
Active curiosity regarding emerging tools like AI and their application in day-to-day workflows, backed by genuine exploration and experimentation.
News UK is 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 and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local 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 multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.
At News UK, we embrace a hybrid work model, currently requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office. This approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and team spirit within our workspace. Certain roles may necessitate additional in-office days; please discuss this with your recruiter for specific requirements.
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 are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. If you require reasonable adjustments due to a disability or health condition at any stage of your application or interview, please let us know. You can contact us at [email protected] to discuss how we can support you to perform at your best.
