In UX&D you’ll get to shape experiences that reach millions of people every day and the tools, systems and strategies behind the scenes that help shape them. As a UX Architect you’ll enjoy thinking at this systems level, connecting ideas, people and technologies to increase the connections, efficiency, resilience and coherence within a system or service. 

Role Responsibility

As a User Experience Architect, you’ll work alongside UX Designers, Content Designers and Design Researchers. You’ll be part of multidisciplinary teams – bringing a human-centred design perspective to the projects you work on. You’ll also be joining our information architecture specialists within UX&D who are committed to making BBC content, experiences and tools more meaningful and connected. We don’t just care about the information – our priority is always the user and their experience. 

Why you’ll want to join this team

The BBC offers a unique challenge to systems thinkers – and particularly people who are passionate about information architecture. Our individual products are some of the best in class. iPlayer, Sounds, BBC News and Sport compete with the biggest names in the market. But they must also work as a portfolio of products. UX Architects help to identify and form the connections in experiences and backstage systems to make this possible.  

We’re looking for people to join the team who love this type of thinking and challenge. You’ll be comfortable operating at different levels of abstraction – thinking about what makes things the same, and where we might need to support exceptions. You can form generalised rules and illustrate these with easy to understand examples. You’ve got multiple ways of communicating the complex – whether it’s a domain diagram, flow chart, wireframes, prototype or just great story-telling. You’re effective because you patiently pull together the strands of complex challenges and then weave them together, with others, to deliver delightful, efficient solutions. 

As a member of BBC UX&D, you’ll join over 100 user experience professionals across the UK serving a global audience.  

The Ideal Candidate

You bring your own unique range of skills and you respect and value the skills and perspectives of others.

You work hard to understand complexity and take delight in sharing your understanding with others. 

You embrace change and new ways of learning and improving. 

You make sound judgements and are comfortable working through ambiguity.  

You keep track of time, plan your own work, and keep people informed.

If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you! 

Package Description

Band: C
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Contractual base can be London or Salford

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression â€“ the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities â€“ our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.