User Experience Principal - EXTEND

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. 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
  
  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!
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. Key Criteria:
• 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.
  
  BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe. We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Bluey, Eastenders, Prehistoric Planet and Planet Earth III. The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed, creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena. From BAFTAs to RTS Awards, BBC Studios is Britain's most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; we're the home of bbc.com, the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK's largest distributor of British content., Hi! We're the BBC Studios UX&D Team and we're a multi-disciplinary team united by a human-centred approach, we work together to design the BBC Studios Product's digital experience.
We think this is an amazing opportunity and here's why:
• 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.
• 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 is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce, that represents the audiences we serve, and encourages applications from candidates from any background, especially people from diverse communities.
Equity of opportunity is important to us, and we endeavour to make our processes equal, fair and meritocratic for everybody. More information on our D&I plan can be found here. BBC Studios puts sustainability at the heart of everything we do both onscreen and offscreen, including delivering against the BBC Group's science -based Net Zero targets. More information on sustainability at BBC Studios can be found here., The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk. We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below. Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential. We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC - whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.


• We offer a competitive salary package.
• Flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance.
• Parental leave for new parents, regardless of gender, of up to a year with 18 weeks fully paid.
• 26 days holiday (plus an additional day 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.
• A comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Excellent career progression - access to courses, webinars, workshops and the opportunity to work in different areas of the organisation.