Sky - UI Designer - 12 months FTC

UI Designer is needed in London, United Kingdom.

Client: Sky

Location: London, UK

Contract: Contractor

Job Description:

- Support the Head & Seniors designers in shaping the principles, standards & day-to-day delivery of Design system tools, components, patterns, interactions and behaviours, ensuring they can scale to support multiple brands, platforms, services and beyond.

- Work collaboratively with design, UX engineers and development teams to create robust tools & components to encourage design system adoption and increase productivity in design.

- Help maintain a flexible design system governance model across Group product design teams, mentoring less experienced team members when required.

- Advocate the value and impact of Design Systems throughout the organization.

- Own your role, challenge established thinking, and discover new ways of approaching design problems in a scrappy environment.

- Proactively participate in defining and maintaining team standards and best practices.

- Play a key role in work streams within the Group Product Design Team Plan.

Requirements:

- Excellent communication, and organizational skills.

- Experience building and maintaining design systems.

- A design system mindset and how design components can be broken down and provide a platform to be more creative.

- An eye for pixel perfect standards, brand guidelines, design principles, typography, UI (desktop / mobile / TV), colour, layout, iconography and how these elements impact product usability and accessibility.

- Proficient design and prototyping tools like Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.

- Experience working with Designers and Engineers.

- Strong technical background with an understanding of the basics.

- Experience designing for TV or Mobile.

Team Overview:

- The Design System Team is the powerhouse behind visual cohesion, spanning multiple brands and platforms. Armed with a passion for consistency, they meticulously document design principles, ensuring every pixel aligns seamlessly. More than just creators, they’re evangelists, championing the importance of a unified design language. To amplify their impact, they craft specialized tools, streamlining processes for a more efficient and delightful multi-brand, multi-platform digital experience.

The Rewards:

- Access to free NOWTV, for streaming all your favourite shows

- A generous pension package

- Private healthcare

- Discounted mobile and broadband

Inclusion & How You’ll Work:

- We are a Disability Confident Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all, and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need to your recruiter as early as you can.

- We’ve embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home. You’ll find out more about what hybrid working looks like for your role later on in the recruitment process.

Your Office Space:

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 are 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.

Additional Information:

- Inventive, forward-thinking minds come together to work in Tech, Product and Data at Sky. It’s a place where you can explore what if, how far, and what next.

- Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.