Ux Designer

Want to do the best work of your life? Make your mark at Europe's leading entertainment brand. Our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work - a place where you can be yourself and let your skills shine.

What you'll do:

- Creative delivery - Demonstrate an ability to come up with innovative ideas, solve problems creatively and shape these into logical, coherent solutions that center around our customers needs Execute UX Design work that adheres to best practice UCD and brand standards across Sky's digital estate Help to maintain an efficient design delivery process, through regular clear communication with delivery teams and consistently delivering to schedule
- Relationship & Network building:Work with stakeholder groups inside Sky's Digital delivery function including product owners, engineers, researchers and copywriters

Advocate the value of UX design and User Centered Design practices with stakeholders across the business
- Demostrate a knowledge and desire to investigate, innovate and develop emerging design, UX and technology trends
- Help drive our creative culture by being a highly visible advocate for all things design

Collaborate with design and development teams in order to create new experiences and evolve patterns

Work closely with the design team to ensure visibility and provide input into group design critiques

What you'll bring:

- Demonstrable experience with a specific focus on UX Design
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in order to convey complex design concepts clearly to different delivery skill sets within the organization
- Proven experience of UCD design principles and methodologies, with an ability to conduct competitor analysis & benchmarking, create user journeys, user flows, sitemaps, wireframes and interactive prototypes
- Experience of running qualitative user research, quantitative analytics metrics independently or via specialists to aid insight driven design
- Strong background in gathering business requirements and translating sometimes competing business objectives into designs which meet customer needs
- Experience working within an agile delivery environment, and in a highly collaborative manner with multiple delivery skill sets
- A keen eye for maintaining consistency of Sky's global online brand guidelines, principles, templates and assets
- Experience of running discovery & design workshops, helping drive alignment and innovation through experiences we deliver
- A proactive, self-driven individual that has an equally strong team ethos

Team Overview:
We bring the best from the global market into Sky - we buy technology, marketing, corporate, operational services and editorial production solutions. We are an international team working with our stakeholders our partners to curate the most effective and efficient customer-led operating model. High ethical standards are embeded in our team, and we engage our supply chains in creating a sustainable future

The Rewards:
There's a reason people can't stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

- Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
- A generous pension package
- Private healthcare
- Discounted mobile and broadband
- Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How you'll work:
We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.

Your office base:
Osterley:
Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There's also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

On campus, you'll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Inclusion:
Recognised as an 'Inclusive Top 50 Employer' and a 'Times Top 50 Employer for Women', we're working hard to ensure we're a truly inclusive place to work. This means we don't just look at your CV. We're more focused on who you are and the potential you'll bring to Sky. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we're happy to discuss flexible working

Why wait?

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.