Senior UX Designer

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• Lead and manage the UX design delivery from discovery to optimisation on multiple roadmap projects and workstreams.
• Maintain an efficient design delivery process through regular communication with delivery teams and consistently delivering to schedule.
• Demonstrate an ability to develop innovative ideas, solve problems creatively, and shape these into logical, coherent solutions that meet our business and customer’s needs.
• Support the Lead UX designer in shaping the day-to-day delivery, and visionary experience for Sky News digital products, ensuring it aligns with Group Product and Sky brand strategies.
• Confidently communicate design solutions and rationale with stakeholders from Group Products delivery function to build support and agreement.
• Represent the UX design team and advocate the value of user-centred design practices with internal partners, and externally when required.
• Collaborate with design, product, engineering and editorial teams to create new experiences and evolve patterns.
• Plan and actively participate in team meetings and design critiques. Organise and facilitate discovery & design workshops.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to convey complex design concepts clearly to different delivery skill sets within the business.
• Proven experience of UCD design principles and methodologies, with an ability to conduct competitor analysis & benchmarking, create user journeys, user flows, sitemaps, wireframes and interactive prototypes.
• Proven understanding of UCD, human interface guidelines, standards, and best practices as they apply to various platforms and devices.
• Strong background in gathering business requirements and translating sometimes competing business objectives into designs which meet customer needs.
• Experience of running discovery & design workshops, helping drive alignment and innovation through experiences we deliver.
• Experience of running qualitative and quantitive user research independently, or via user research specialists, to aid insight driven design.
• Experience of designing with accessibility in mind and meeting WCAG 2.1 level AA.
• A keen eye for maintaining consistency of Global Design's UX guidelines, principles, templates and assets.

• Generous pension package
• Private healthcare
• Discounted mobile and broadband
• A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences

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