User Experience principal - Extend

Closing date: 2nd January 2025

Salary: Up to £72,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience + London Weighting at £5319

We’re looking for designers who can bring imagination and curiosity to help bring some of the BBC’s strongest brands and shows to audiences that love them.

The BBC Studios UX&D Team is a multi-disciplinary team united by a human-centred approach, working together to design the BBC Studios Product’s digital experience. We design BBC Studios amazing digital experiences from BBC Player (our international player product) to DoctorWho.tv. Our ace team of UX practitioners collaborate closely with product, editorial and technical teams from across BBC Studios. Together we create elegant, delightful digital experiences on a range of different platforms.

The User Experience Principal drives craft and strategy in our branded website product group. You’ll care about making great experiences for people and be driven to learn and grow to support this. Your portfolio will tell your story and show how you go about your design process from ideation/concept to delivery. Great UI is nice but we’re more interested in your design process – tell us your story!

You’ll be leading the UX Research and Design for a new product group that sits across a number of our brands’ websites, for example Bluey, Doctor Who and BBC Earth. You will be evolving a budding UX practice in this product area and will be able to make a significant difference in the way the product team and wider business approach the user experience. By understanding our users’ needs, the successful candidate will be able to improve the overall user experience for millions of people who visit these global websites.

We’re looking for someone who can show they have the passion and experience to take the lead on UX design, building relationships with stakeholders and selling in the value of UX and Design. We want to see a portfolio that is full of consistently great work across different screens and experiences – be they on mobile, connected TV, tablet, desktop or connected device. You’ll have strong skills in user research, interaction design, visual design, creative facilitation and problem definition You’ll also be comfortable working both autonomously and collaboratively. You’re able to guide your own work and proactively take initiative, as well as find value the feedback and ideas of others in the team.

What will you do?

This role will be a balanced split between strategic UX leadership and hands-on UX design work including:

• Planning and carrying out user research 
• Sizing and planning UX&D work across a number of products 
• Managing senior business stakeholders across several products
• Enabling transition user centred and product centred models
• Contributing to prioritisation of work
• Contributing to product briefs
• Managing’ work and supporting the development of more junior UX practitioners
• Collaborating with the product team to deliver design work
• Creating wireframes and UI design in Figma
• Collaborating with the wider UX&D team to solve problems

What does it take?

• You have evidence of great design across a range of screen sizes and device platforms.
• You approach design conceptually and think about the whole experience
• You have experience in leading and creating user-centred design and design research
• You are fluent in wireframing, flows, layouts, colour, typography, etc.
• You can communicate the value of UX design and results of your design work through a variety of communication methods.

This role is advertised as part of our BBC Extend programme for disabled people. To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neurodivergent and must meet either: the definition of disability in the Equality Act (2010), or the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) if applying in Northern Ireland. You’re broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non-apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis.

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