Job Description

UI Designer, Tech Innovation

Location:

London

Department:

Technology

Salary Details:

Not Specified

Advertising End Date:

Not Specified



UI Designer, Tech Innovation

Your team: You will be an integral part of a lean cross-functional innovation team. The team is responsible for early engagement with the business to help shape new ideas / products / technologies and to test feasibility and identify technical scope for proposed initiatives.

The team works from the discovery phase to business case, focusing on business problems and exploring how new technologies can help and elevate an idea or opportunity.

Understanding the problem, conceptualising the solution and following the design thinking process to ensure the user is at the forefront of their minds. Before handing off to existing or new teams to take forward.

Your role: You will provide expertise in selling an idea, getting buy in from stakeholders and bringing to life the conceptual thinking of the team via prototyping, animations, video and visual design skills.

As the Senior UI Designer, you will report to the Head of UXD and work in a lean cross functional team playing a pivotal role in shaping new technologies within News UK; cementing the \'why?\', recommending the \'how?\' and visualising the \'What?\' to inspire stakeholders and teams within the business.

You\'ll have a passion for design, UX & technology. You\'ll be hands-on and willing to work in a fast paced, ever-moving environment, think big, push boundaries and embrace failure.

You\'ll keep up-to-date with the latest trends, developments in technology and be acutely aware of new practices in design and innovation.

Day to day you will:

• Bring ideas and concepts to life for stakeholders and users via visual design, prototyping, animation and video.

Develop deep knowledge of the current News UK brands.

Own and develop the visual identity of the team.

Lead on projects, ensuring we follow the design thinking process to solve complex design problems.

Ability to quickly create new brands for PoCs / presentations to clearly illustrate the teams thinking.

Work in a rapid, efficient manner and enjoy ideation of solutions to ensure core problems are being answered.

Attend, facilitate and play a large part in team ideation sessions, workshops and design sprints.

Stay abreast of innovations in best practices, tools and topics of interest to the design community, share with the team and help infuse them in how we work. Gain a good understanding of new technologies so you are able to design within their full potential.

Visualisation of data and research in the form of infographics.

Assist in user research to stay aligned with user needs.

What we\'re looking for from you:

• Capable of leading projects involving multiple disciplines

Creative and conceptual thinker able to develop innovative solutions to problems

Strong ideation skills from initial ideas into PoCs

Data literate, analysing frequently to help inform concepts

Strong prototyping skills and experience with full end to end design process

Strong presentation and storytelling skills, articulating ideas clearly to the team and wider stakeholders

Strong understanding of user needs and business needs with great relationship building and stakeholder management skills

This role is hybrid with 3 days in the office and 2 days remote.

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, TalkTV 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 ourDiversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy (https://www.news.co.uk/more-than-the-news/diversity-inclusion/) , 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. We also currently have12 employee led networks and groups (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMCi-KiMlL4&t=2s) that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternityleave up to 18 weeks full basic salary &paternityleave up to 2 weeks

Wide range oftrainingavailable, plus full LinkedIn Learning access

Private medical insuranceincluding 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 towellbeing benefitssuch as EAP, physio/massage and counselling

A generouspensionscheme with employer contributions of up to 5%

25 daysholiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4volunteeringdays per year

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK