Lead Product Designer

3 weeks ago


Remote, United Kingdom Bauer Media Group Full time

**Job Introduction**:
**Our Team**

Bauer Media Audio operates a ‘hub and spoke’ model for digital. The central digital team supports our country business units with strategy, insight, innovation, product management, technology, IP distribution and support. Our country teams are responsible for local planning, content and commercial delivery. As part of a combined community of digital experts, the teams work in partnership to create outstanding services to our users and deliver commercial success.

As a team we thrive on combining local market excellence with a wider, global perspective.

**THE ROLE**

We are looking for a Lead Designer to create a centre of design excellence within Bauer Media Audio. We will encourage your clear and strong design principles as you establish a new product design practice, ready to push the boundaries of what we do to make a measurable impact on our listeners’ everyday lives.

Your pedigree in leading and mentoring will see you confidently take the reins, using your deep knowledge and expertise in user experience, research and product design to guide your team on ways of working to deliver next-level experiences. Your exceptional problem-solving skills and inquisitive, experimental mindset wants to understand what drives user behaviour while constantly developing your skills and deepening process knowledge.

We want design to fly the flag through the entire product lifecycle, focusing on the user problem as a starting point, collaborating with others and leading the way on achieving measurable outcomes that deliver business value. You’ll have a systematic approach to design, helping us improve process, and embed design tools and workflows.

With robust communication skills and a strong product mindset, you will seek to build solid relationships as you work in partnership with the Digital Product Director to champion a design centric approach. There is genuine scope for your career to skyrocket here, as well as nurture the ambitions within your team.

We are on a mission to make our listeners’ world sound better, with brand-expressive digital radio and audio listening experiences that delight and engage audiences across web, app, voice and connected devices. Product design will play an integral part in our journey to become global audio pioneers.

**Role Responsibility**:

- Own the entire design process throughout the product lifecycle, from discovering value, validating propositions all the way through to delivering products and services.
- Work with multidisciplinary teams on our product ecosystem as the design authority, managing the designers and design resource within each squad
- Advocate for the user to drive value for our businesses.
- Give and action feedback and input into all aspects of the design process.
- Present designs to key stakeholders and clearly communicate why decisions were made.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to craft delightful customer experience, develop, and validate prototypes, alphas, betas, and live services.
- Regularly conduct testing with users, design the methodology for these and turn the output into intelligence.
- Participate in regular sprint ceremonies and contribute to progressing & improving our culture and ways of working - offering up new approaches.
- Own a cross-platform design system that the whole design team share and co-develop.
- Proven experience working on things that exist in the real world, not only as prototypes.
- A natural and inclusive collaborator with a positive outlook.
- Able to confidently share and communicate ideas to a range of professionals from different backgrounds, welcoming multiple inputs and solutions, and comfortable in challenging existing thinking.
- A product mindset, able to make pragmatic trade-offs while holding a bigger strategic goal in mind.
- Someone who gives and receives quality feedback in equal measures.
- Comfortable and competent at managing and directing individuals and teams.
- Highly organised and used to working in a systemised way, including the implementation of design systems and workflow tools such as Figma.
- Experience with user
- centred design principles and methodologies.
- Experience leading the creation of end-to-end user journeys, user flows and prototypes to communicate ideas.
- Well versed in data-driven decision making, conducting research, creating, and validating ideas, to make confident recommendations to our businesses.
- Experience working in agile product development and SCRUM.
- A strong understanding of the nuances between iOS and Android platforms.
- Experience working across regions and understanding of how it impacts product design is a plus.
- Experience with media and/or streaming products a plus.
- Experience working with matrix teams and a distributed workforce a plus.

**Package Description**:
**Rewards packages at Bauer Media offer a range of salary sacrifice Benefits, such as our pension scheme and flexible holidays, as w


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