Description

Closing Date: 02-May-2024

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 – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
Unrivalled training and development opportunities – 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 holiday (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.
Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.
If they are unsure which contract they are on, they can speak to their booker or the HR BP, however if it helps - both a PAYE freelance or Modus Gross contract is considered a Worker contract and covered by the Worker terms found here.
Job Introduction
The News Design team is a multi-platform, multidisciplinary team within BBC News.
We are responsible for the design and visualisation of a story end to end, across all platforms from our website and app to our flagship news broadcasts and social accounts. The team brings together digital designers, broadcast designers, and developers to provide compelling visual coverage of the biggest and most significant stories.
As a Designer - Storytelling & formats, you will work closely with the Creative Director - Story-telling & Formats and the team, working to design beautiful, and engaging storytelling and new formats for our website and app that help our users understand the News.
You will work closely with cross-functional teams to define and craft article experiences, patterns, and components, all while infusing the power of editorial storytelling into our design system.
Main Responsibilities
Storytelling Product Design:
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design engaging digital story experiences that work seamlessly across all our platforms.
Contribute to the evolution and expansion of the design language, ensuring consistency across various products and platforms.
Evidenced experience of designing with a Design System and contributing components to the system whilst expressing and evolving a brand.
Fluent in responsive design and a systems thinker adept at problem-solving at a macro and micro scale across multiple problem spaces.
UI/UX Design:
Apply user-centred design principles to create high-quality visual and interaction designs. Demonstrates strong UI and UX skills with a varied and creative portfolio informed by user data and an agile process.
Implement and iterate on design solutions based on feedback, user testing, and evolving user needs and business requirements.
Experience in creating high-fidelity prototypes of designs, and user testing them in a controlled environment.
Component Design:
Experience of working in a design system, designing with components, and creating new components.
Experience of working closely with engineering teams to ensure proper implementation of design components.
Collaboration:
Collaborate with editorial, engineering, product and other designers to understand project goals, user needs, and business requirements.
Foster a collaborative and communicative design process that includes regular feedback loops.
Research and Innovation:
Evidence of industry knowledge, informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and design best practices in the digital design systems and storytelling space.
Experience of user testing, and knowledge on when to use which methods
Contribute innovative ideas to improve and advance the design system, and the ability to design for re-use and scale.
Are you the right person?
Experience in UX Design, HCI, or a related field.
Experience in design systems or UI/UX design.
Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Sketch
Strong portfolio of digital design and design systems work/case studies demonstrating your principles, methodologies, and approaches.
Demonstrable understanding of design principles and user-centred design methodologies.
Experience working in an agile development environment.
Good communication and collaboration skills.
Ability to receive and provide constructive feedback.
Good knowledge of accessibility and usability principles.
Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
About the BBC
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.
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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.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.