How would you like to play a leading role in the world class, multi-talented, multi-disciplinary UX team, responsible for bringing BBC News to millions of audiences across the world?

Now is a great time to join the BBC News digital team. Over the last four years, we have doubled the reach of the News site and apps in both the UK and globally. Our ambition: to make the leap from one-size-fits-all to a modern, personalised digital news service that is important, relevant and useful for everyone, every time they use it.

You’ll work closely with a wide range of disciplines, from engineers to editorial, helping to craft and evolve the BBC News offering to meet the needs of our growing audience. You’ll be a key contributor to delivering value for our users regularly, and shaping what we build using research and data. 

We're looking for UX Designers for this important and impactful work, and be part of the BBC UX&D community. To learn more about UX&D at the BBC, have a look at our GEL (Global Experience Language) website, where you can check out some of our videos with the teams: https://www.bbc.co.uk/gel/articles/about-bbc-uxd

Role Responsibility

• Collaborate with other team members to get to the heart of what the users need - creating sketches, concepts, user journeys, wireframes and navigational prototypes.
• Design for multiple platforms and touch points.
• Develop user experiences considering relevant practice and theory.
• Share design expertise and ideas with people from design, product, editorial and technical teams.
• Proactively try out ideas and designs with audience members and end-users to make sure they’re meeting real user needs.

The Ideal Candidate

Your portfolio is full of consistently strong work across different screens and experiences - be they on mobile, connected TV, tablet, desktop of connected device.

You’re fascinated by people and what motivates them, and you relish the challenge of bringing your skills to helping solve their problems and craft delightful designs for them. You understand the value of collaborating in cross-discipline teams, and you can switch into a facilitation role to get teams energised.

Your brain might tend towards wireframes, user flows and personas. Or layout, colour and typography. Either way you’ll have heaps of skills you can use to create the ideal user experience. Maybe you’ve even got something special up your sleeve, like you’re an amazing illustrator, motion graphic designer or prototype builder. Our team’s made up of a diverse range of people, skills and experience, so we’d love to hear about you and yours.

You’re enthusiastic, curious and full of ideas. You see every new situation as a chance to learn something new. So you love trying your hand at the latest design trends and technology developments. 

Whether you learned your skills on a design degree or on the job, you’re comfortable applying them to whatever situation arises. And you’re keen to broaden those skills by trying out whatever new software and devices come your way.

Package Description

Band: C
Contract type: Permanent
Location: 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 Ã¢â‚¬â€œ the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities Ã¢â‚¬â€œ 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.