What are the responsibilities and job description for the UI Designer position at BBC Studios?
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BBC Studios
BBC Studios, a global content company with bold British creativity at its heart, is a commercial subsidiary of the BBC Group, creatively and financially supporting the BBC, its partners, and the wider industry. We combine the strengths of the UK’s most awarded producer with a world-class distributor. Taking ideas from thought to screen and beyond, our activities range from content financing, development, production, through to global program sales, branded services, consumer products, live events and ancillaries.
At BBC Global Digital News & Streaming, (a team situated within BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC) we aim to help people understand the world around them, make informed choices, and take an active part in society and democracy. As we expand our footprint to meet increasing demand for our style of quality and impartial journalism and unscripted content in North America, we are seeking motivated, passionate, high performing individuals across a variety of skillsets to join our global team. Our primary locations are New York, Washington DC, and London, though as a distributed workforce we are open to applicants in any location where the BBC has a commercial presence.
Join us and be an essential part of one of the world’s most recognized brands and trusted news organizations.
Job Purpose
As a UI Designer you will work as part of a wider product design org within a global division across countries and time zones, helping to build the future of the BBC product suite outside the UK. You will be an exceptionally skilled visual designer with advanced expertise in crafting high-end, polished digital experiences. Your work will be a combination of both short-term and long-term design thinking, hands-on design execution, design communication, and constantly improving the experience and visual design of our products.
Key Responsibilities And Accountabilities
Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience
The anticipated annual salary for this position is $70,000 - $77,500. The actual base salary offered depends on the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and geographic location of the position. This range is not inclusive of a competitive bonus, flexible, hybrid working schedule & benefits including but not limited to: 100% BBCS covered medical & dental insurance, vision, & 401k match.
About The BBC
We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consid
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BBC Studios
BBC Studios, a global content company with bold British creativity at its heart, is a commercial subsidiary of the BBC Group, creatively and financially supporting the BBC, its partners, and the wider industry. We combine the strengths of the UK’s most awarded producer with a world-class distributor. Taking ideas from thought to screen and beyond, our activities range from content financing, development, production, through to global program sales, branded services, consumer products, live events and ancillaries.
At BBC Global Digital News & Streaming, (a team situated within BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC) we aim to help people understand the world around them, make informed choices, and take an active part in society and democracy. As we expand our footprint to meet increasing demand for our style of quality and impartial journalism and unscripted content in North America, we are seeking motivated, passionate, high performing individuals across a variety of skillsets to join our global team. Our primary locations are New York, Washington DC, and London, though as a distributed workforce we are open to applicants in any location where the BBC has a commercial presence.
Join us and be an essential part of one of the world’s most recognized brands and trusted news organizations.
Job Purpose
As a UI Designer you will work as part of a wider product design org within a global division across countries and time zones, helping to build the future of the BBC product suite outside the UK. You will be an exceptionally skilled visual designer with advanced expertise in crafting high-end, polished digital experiences. Your work will be a combination of both short-term and long-term design thinking, hands-on design execution, design communication, and constantly improving the experience and visual design of our products.
Key Responsibilities And Accountabilities
- Responsible for the overall visual design and end-to-end product user interfacer experience for a global audience consuming our world class content across both existing and future products.
- Provide UI design expertise across responsive websites, mobile apps, and digital products for a global product suite.
- Understand UX principles but have a primary focus on creating visually impactful, sophisticated digital products.
- You have an impeccable eye for typography, layout, and visual hierarchy a sharp attention to detail aesthetic, bringing sophisticated, creative, user-centered sensibilities to life.
- Collaborate with wider design team to triangulate UX thinking and technical requirements to ship finished components.
- Work with stakeholders, business analysts, and product team to understand design requirements and expectations.
- Collaborate with research & insights to conduct relevant analysis and testing to investigate and validate design decisions.
- Contribute to cross function concept sessions on product solutions.
- Work in agile design sprints to constantly improve and iterate upon our product suite.
- Communicate design work to development teams through clear documentation, prototypes, design system contributions, and other handoff materials.
- Help maintain and evolve the product design system and component library.
- Work closely with the brand team to ensure visual design efforts within our products effectively represent the BBC brand
- Feed in to fostering a collaborative work environment, communicating your ideas and intentions across departments and creatively guide other designers.
- Reports to the Global Digital News and streaming Creative Director
- Contribute to the creative vision for the current and future states of the product, and ensure this vision is documented, communicated, and followed.
- Able to take charge of individual project or task delivery.
- Mentors or guides junior creatives in the team
Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience
- 3 years experience in digital product design/UX team environment and in a digital UI team environment
- News media experience a plus
- Relevant portfolio of recent work highlighting multiple projects demonstrating your contributions.
- Expert in industry tooling such as: Figma, prototyping, design systems
- Comfortable with digital remote communication and collaboration tooling such as: Slack, Miro, Dropbox, Zoom, Teams
- Comfortable presenting work to groups and stakeholders
- Keep pace with latest design trends and technology developments
- Strong verbal and written communication skills. Designers need to be able to clearly and concisely articulate themselves and explain their ideas.
- An ability to work quickly in a high-pressure environment.
- Meticulous and detail oriented designer.
- Creative problem solver with ambitious ideas.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with communication, diplomacy and collaboration in bounds.
- Self-motivation and the ability to positively collaborate with a team of skilled professionals.
- Maintain an active interest in culture, trends and habits of audiences consuming digital content.
- 100% Employer-Paid Medical and Dental Insurance (PPO plans)
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Flexible, Hybrid Working Arrangements
- Work/life balance
- Free Retirement Consulting to All Employees
- Pet Insurance
- Commuter Benefits
- Gym Reimbursement
- Bagel Mondays, Monthly Happy Hours, and more!
The anticipated annual salary for this position is $70,000 - $77,500. The actual base salary offered depends on the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and geographic location of the position. This range is not inclusive of a competitive bonus, flexible, hybrid working schedule & benefits including but not limited to: 100% BBCS covered medical & dental insurance, vision, & 401k match.
About The BBC
We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consid
Salary : $70,000 - $77,500
