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Senior Product Designer, Commercial

The Guardian 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Full-time Senior

The Senior Product Designer will design user journeys and wireframes to enhance advertising effectiveness while maintaining editorial integrity. They will also lead testing and optimization of ad formats while collaborating across product, engineering, and commercial teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design user journeys, flows, and wireframes that enhance advertising effectiveness while maintaining a high-quality user experience
  • Lead testing and optimisation of ad formats, layouts, and interactions to improve both user experience and commercial performance
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Data, Editorial, and Commercial teams to deliver end-to-end solutions
  • Advocate for UX best practices across competing priorities, including editorial, advertising, and compliance
  • Contribute to the long-term UX vision for commercial products, balancing user trust, commercial performance, and feasibility

Requirements

  • Proven experience designing digital products within commercial, advertising, or ad-supported environments
  • Strong portfolio showcasing work on complex, constraint-driven products across web and mobile
  • Deep understanding of interaction design, usability, accessibility, and information architecture
  • Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across teams
  • Commercially aware, with an understanding of how design impacts revenue and user engagement

Benefits

  • 30 days of annual leave per year (plus bank holidays) with the option to purchase an additional 5 days
  • A generous pension scheme; if you contribute 5% then we will contribute 8-12% (depending on your age)
  • 2 volunteering days annually and the option of payroll giving
  • Season ticket loans available
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave policies in place
  • IVF, menopause, baby loss, and trans equality policy support
  • Free yoga and pilates classes
  • Corporate gym membership and cycle to work scheme
  • A canteen with views overlooking the Regents Canal, catering for breakfast, lunch and dinner

Key Skills

User experience (UX) design User interface (UI) design Interaction design Usability Accessibility Information architecture Wireframing Prototyping Design systems Collaboration Stakeholder management Communication Commercial awareness Figma Sketch Adobe XD Design thinking Agile methodologies Scrum

About The Guardian

Guardian News & Media (GNM) publishes theguardian.com, one of the world’s leading English-language newspaper websites. It also has a presence in the US and Australia as Guardian US and Guardian Australia. Traffic from outside of the UK now represents around two-thirds of the Guardian’s total digital audience. In the UK, GNM publishes the Guardian newspaper six days a week, first published in 1821. The Guardian is renowned for its agenda-setting journalism including, most recently the Cambridge Analytica, Paradise and Panama Papers investigations as well as the Pulitzer Prize and Emmy-winning NSA revelations.

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