Product Designer (Mid-Weight)

Job Description

Job title: Product Designer (Mid-Weight)

Company: WarnerMedia

Job description: Every great story has a new beginning, and yours starts here.

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

EUROSPORT / TNT SPORTS

Product Designer (UI)

UX design knowledge and experience compulsory

Overview

Warner Bros. Discovery is looking for a 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 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 midweight level role, primarily focusing on UI design but you will be required to have an in-depth understanding of UX Design and its principles. 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 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.

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 3 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 experience creating and working with Design Systems

You have a proactive attitude and strong time management skills.

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 applying User-Centred Design processes across multiple platforms/ technologies.

Please Note: Applications sent without a portfolio will not be considered. When showcasing group work, please specify your personal contribution to the project.

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

The Legal Bits…

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

If you’re a qualified candidate and you require adjustments or accommodations to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.

Expected salary:

Location: London

Job date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 02:37:26 GMT

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