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Senior Product Designer

The Irish Times 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland

Full-time Senior

Lead product design from discovery and research through prototyping, visual design, delivery, and iteration across responsive web and native apps. Advocate for users while balancing business and editorial needs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, evolve the design system, and support other designers through feedback and mentorship.

Responsibilities

  • Lead product design from discovery and research through prototyping, visual design, delivery and iteration
  • Advocate for users while balancing business and editorial requirements
  • Collaborate with cross‑functional teams including product, engineering and editorial
  • Evolve and maintain the design system
  • Provide feedback and mentorship to other designers

Requirements

  • At least five years of hands‑on product design experience
  • Honours degree in a design‑related discipline
  • Portfolio demonstrating strong UI execution and UX research
  • Proficiency with Figma and AI‑assisted design tools
  • Strong skills in design, research, prototyping, accessibility, communication and collaboration

Benefits

  • Health Insurance Contribution
  • Pension Contribution
  • Sick Leave Cover
  • Maternity and Paternity Leave
  • Irish Times Premium Digital Subscription
  • Income Protection Policy
  • Corporate Gym Membership Discounts
  • Free Digital GP
  • Life Assurance Policy

Key Skills

Product design User research Prototyping Figma AI‑assisted design tools Responsive web design Native app design Accessibility design Information architecture Interaction design Design systems Wireframing Usability testing Cross‑functional collaboration Stakeholder communication Mentoring Visual design Typography Layout design Design thinking Agile methodology Problem solving Data‑driven design User‑centered design Presentation skills Design critique

About The Irish Times

The Irish Times is Ireland's leading quality newspaper and delivers news, opinion and analysis to 1,451,000 readers each week (source TGI). The Irish Times is committed to bringing journalism of the highest standard to our readers in the most convenient, engaging and accessible way possible through multi platform media. As media technologies evolve so do our methods of reporting and we are committed to developing our digital offering accordingly. From our daily email digests bringing news straight to your inbox to our series of weekly podcasts, we bring authoritative news reports; independent commentary and informed insight directly to the reader. We aspire to being a trusted source of information whether it’s in print, on web, mobile or tablet device.

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