Senior Product Designer

Location Leeds, UNITED KINGDOM

department Design

Type Full TIMe

Minimum Experience Mid Level

What is Footballco?

Footballco is the world’s biggest dedicated football content and media business. Reaching more than 400m football fans across the world each month, and with a growing roster of brands including Goal, Voetbalzone, and Spox, no one else has our reach or depth of understanding within the game. With over 300 employees globally, we’re a young company with some established brands and serious investment behind us. Our future starts now…

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What’s the role about?

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our ever expanding global internal creative agency. You will have a portfolio full of crafted and inspired design executions. You will be responsible for coming up with innovative ideas and stunning designs, as well as helping develop and evolve a team of designers.

This position will be a flexible office/home work schedule. We offer competitive compensation and a bonus scheme. You will report into the Product Design Director at Footballco.

What You'll be doing?

• Tackle each design challenge with a user-first approach, continuously looking to improve our products for our different types of audience

• Create hi-impact product designs, design ideas, user flows, sitemaps and prototypes

• Coach junior contributors, leading by example and helping to raise the bar for the product design team

• Contribute in the discovery/prep of workshops with stakeholders, identifying and analysing needs alongside your peers, as well as setting standards for processes.

• Present your design decisions to peers, partners, and stakeholders, helping the product design team to articulate and rationalise capabilities against user insights and business goals

• Support the development teams to build the best products we possibly can, constantly pushing the design and interactions

• Support any user research workflows, interpreting the results, to ensure the end-product design provides users with the optimum experience in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and engagement

• Be willing to learn and adapt

• Be hungry to develop and progress in your career

What you have?

• Experience working in a product team creating solutions for a core global product

• A good understanding of how to build global products being sympathetic to their specific needs and cultural differences

• Good knowledge of UI design principles and techniques, UX and interaction design

• Ability to work with product and development teams, negotiating priorities and technology constraints to ensure products are delivered on schedule

• Creative UI design skills including creating product designs, design ideas, user flows, and sitemaps

• Excellent communication skills, with experience presenting to and influencing product, business, team members and other stakeholders

• Willingness to collaborate across the team and take on board key feedback to work back into your designs.

• Excellent working knowledge of product design tools

• The ability to deliver exceptional experiences for mobile (both web and native apps) desktop, with an understanding of distinct design constraints and nuances

Footballco is a global organisation and as such we are fortunate to have employees across a diverse range of backgrounds. We aim to build an environment that is inclusive to all and where everyone feels empowered to be their authentic self.

Footballco is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, colour, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.