Principal UX Designer

**What’s the role?**

We are seeking a Principal UX Designer to play a critical role in shaping UX design excellence across our team. This position focuses on supporting the development and elevation of the skills of team members, fostering a collaborative environment, and ensuring high-quality outputs.

Reporting to the Head of Digital Product Consumer Experience, and working alongside the Principal UX Researcher and Product Design Lead, this role will lead by example, balancing hands-on UX design work as well as offering additional support to team members, ensuring their contributions align with business and user goals.

Key Responsibilities

+ Drive UX design excellence by contributing to critical projects and raising the bar for quality across the team.

+ Provide additional support to team members, helping them develop their craft and grow professionally.

+ Collaborate with the Principal UX Researcher and Product Design Lead to implement best practices and processes that enhance team workflows.

+ Contribute to the team’s design systems, ensuring their scalability, maintainability, and consistency across products.

+ Act as a trusted advisor within the team, fostering an inclusive, supportive, and collaborative working environment.

+ Advocate for a data research-driven culture, promoting the value of user insights across the organisation.

+ Provide UX design leadership within the team, including conducting peer-to-peer reviews and offering constructive feedback.

**Who are you?**

About You

+ 7+ years of experience in UX design, with at least 2+ years in a mentoring or leadership capacity.

+ Deep expertise in user and interaction design, with a strong understanding of accessibility and usability.

+ Experience contributing to and evolving design systems.

+ Passionate about fostering a research-driven culture, and promoting the value of user insights across an organisation.

+ Skilled in fostering professional growth and inspiring individual UX designers of all skill levels.

+ Adept at balancing hands-on UX design responsibilities with team support and guidance.

+ Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate UX decisions and advocate for best practices within the team.

+ Comfortable working within a fast-paced, collaborative environment and managing competing priorities.

+ Passionate about delivering high-quality UX design solutions that balance user needs and business goals.

**News Benefits**

News Benefits is our way of saying thank you to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities. Thanking them for the great things they do daily, for the greater good of Australia. Our benefits include:
+ **Exclusively ours** - Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family

+ **Health & wellbeing** - Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney offices)

+ **Time off** - News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.

+ **Helping you grow** - Development opportunities (including diversity and inclusion - focused education series) and recognition

+ **Financial wellbeing** - Support on making the most of your money

+ **Perks & discounts** - Exclusive offers across a range of products and services

+ **Giving back** - Make a difference to our communities.

+ **Workplace Inclusion and facilities** - Engage with your passions through various employee-resource groups and accessibility to multi-faith quiet rooms & parents’ rooms

Who are we?

We are proud to be Australia’s most impactful media group, we’re even prouder of what we stand for: Together, we inform, advocate and inspire all Australians, for a better Australia.

With over 150 brands across news, sport and lifestyle, backed by a team of more than 5,000 dedicated people across the country, News Corp Australia is trusted by over 17 million Australians a month to provide the information and inspiration they seek across multiple digital, video, audio and print platforms.

Renowned for world-class journalism and marketing services nationally and internationally, we are passionate, creative and dynamic. We offer a fast-paced environment that encourages individuals to take control of their future and challenge themselves in ever-changing fields.

What’s next?

**Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion** _We know that diversity strengthens our teams and newsrooms as we seek to tell stories that represent the diverse communities of Australia that we serve. Our people make us unique and we all have a story. We encourage people of all ages, backgrounds, races, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, abilities and gender identities to apply. Inclusion is important to us and we want everyone at News to bring their whole-selves to work. If you require any acc