Product Designer - City of London

Overview:

Music wouldn't exist without the work of songwriters, composers and publishers. We're here to represent them and make sure that they are paid for their work. After more than a century in the industry, we continue to innovate as a world-leading organisation.

The Role

We have an opportunity for a Product Designer on a 12 Month fixed term contract to join our Digital Squad within our Chief Information Office (CIO) department.

The Product Designer will be responsible for:

• Leading information gathering, commissioning and implementation of formative and evaluative user research.
• Designing outstanding end-to-end user experiences for PRSfM products.
• Running creative and discovery workshops through to concept development and prototyping.
• Producing both wireframes and fully polished design deliverables across the entire product lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

• Take a leading role alongside the Product Manager and Tech Lead in planning, making decisions and shaping the direction of the Squad.
• Create a collaborative work ethic within the Squad, ensuring all members are involved in the design process as appropriate - from ideation to problem solving.
• Partner with Product Managers to define problems and outcomes, analyse customer data, plan, and conduct user research.
• Take a lead role in facilitating and planning workshops and design sprints, fulfilling the needs of the discovery phase and creative ideation sessions within the Squad
• Create detailed UX deliverables including user journeys, sketches and storyboards, site maps, wireframes, navigation models and prototypes in line with the needs of the product. Ensure all UX design output follows best practice.
• Develop process flows, lo-fi wireframes and mid-high-fidelity mock-ups and prototypes in Figma for usability testing

For a full list of duties, please email the recruitment team and request a copy of the job description.

About you:

At PRS for Music, we want you to bring the best version of yourself to work. We believe that celebrating individuality promotes a culture of acceptance and openness. Along with being whoever you want to be, in an ideal world you will also have:

• Solid commercial experience as a UX or visual designer (or as a dedicated Product Designer).
• Experience of designing products for SalesForce experiences.
• Significant experience in utilising UCD methodologies and UX research to influence product delivery roadmaps.
• Extensive experience in sketching out storyboards, user journeys and developing high fidelity prototypes & wireframes for concept development.
• Portfolio that showcases problem space and solution space case studies. A portfolio showcasing a combination of research, UX and UI skills, clear outcomes and impact on the user and business alike.
• In depth knowledge of accessibility (a11y), relating to UK legislation.

• Design thinking
• Facilitating
• Workshopping
• User testing tools
• Up-to-date knowledge of Figma and similar design tools

• Animation
• HTML, CSS
• Javascript
• Google Analytics (GA4)

What’s in it for you?

Here are just a few things that set PRS for Music apart from the crowd:

• We trust, value, and support our people to make the difference
• We believe that diversity of thought and experience provides the platform for innovation and creativity
• We are consciously inclusive and have eight Affinity Groups which you can join and make an impact
• We invest in the development of our people to drive our ambitions forward
• We offer a range of family friendly leave including enhanced maternity and paternity, grandparent, fertility, reproductive and menopause support.
• We know time to rest and recharge is important which is why we offer 25 days holiday entitlement with the option to top up twice annually up to a maximum of 30 days
• Employees can work from anywhere in the world for up to eight weeks of the year
• Plus a whole range of other benefits, including retail discounts, gym discounts, season ticket or bicycle loan.

The Process

Our interview process for this role is simple:

• First stage interview will take place virtually on MS Teams.
• Second stage interview will take place in person at our London Bridge Hub.

We use competency-based questions within our interviews. This allows you to provide examples of situations where you have had to demonstrate the required skills relevant to the role you are applying for. To assist your preparation for interview, research the STAR method to aid bringing your examples to life.

Location

We offer a hybrid working model, allowing employees to work from home up to three days a week.

To ensure the health and safety of all our employees, if you wish to work from home for more than 2.5 days per week, we will conduct a quick and easy remote-working assessment.

If you sound like you could be the right person for the job, apply now.

At PRS we are committed to equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging for all. We have taken a holistic approach to ensure that no one feels excluded regardless of age, class, sexuality, gender, race, religion, or ability. We value the needs of everyone in our organisation and strive to build an environment where our employee’s contributions are recognised in order that everyone may thrive.