Product Designer in City of Westminster

At Informa, no two days and no two people are the same, and you'll find the freedom, opportunity and support of a fantastic community to make a real impact. We’re an international business that connects specialists with knowledge, helping them to learn more, know more and do more through live and on demand events, digital and data-driven services and academic research. We are home to over 14,000 colleagues across 30 countries and are a member of the UK’s FTSE 100 group of leading public companies.

In Global Support, we provide expert guidance and hands-on support to the Informa Group and Informa’s many business teams. Across tech, finance, legal, corporate development, HR, communications, operations and many other areas, we work collaboratively and flexibly to help our brands serve their customers and help the company succeed.

As a Product Designer with a strong interest in UI and visual design, you’ll work across brands such as Cannes Lions, Money 20/20 and more. You’ll support the delivery of high-quality digital experiences across our marketing websites and core platforms, including our awards entry system and pass manager. This role is ideal for a Junior or early-career Product Designer (1–3 years’ experience) looking to grow strong UI and product design foundations in a supportive team.

As part of a three-person design team, you’ll work on projects alongside more senior designers, product managers, engineers and stakeholders. You’ll contribute to exploring problems, translating business and user needs into thoughtful and usable designs, and guiding work through development to release. This role is well suited to someone looking to grow their product design skills, with guidance and support from more experienced team members.

What you’ll grow into:

• Running small discovery efforts
• Contributing meaningfully to the design system
• Increasing ownership of complex product areas
• Building confidence presenting to stakeholders

Key Accountabilities:

• Create strong designs. Support the creation of clear, intuitive designs across our marketing websites and systems. You’ll have support owning projects end-to-end, from concept to release, ensuring solutions meet user needs and business goals.
• Flexible problem-solving. Adapt your design approach depending on the brief. Be comfortable working on well-defined tasks, while developing confidence exploring more complex or less clearly defined problems. Ask thoughtful questions to help uncover the underlying problem.
• User-centred design. Assist with user research and usability testing where appropriate, such as reviewing existing experiences, helping to synthesise findings, and applying learnings to design improvements with support from the team.
• Ownership and collaboration. Take ownership of smaller projects or features, while working closely with senior designers, product managers, product owners and engineers to ensure solutions are practical and aligned.
• Communicating findings and recommendations. Share your design thinking clearly, contributing to presentations and rationale for stakeholders and the wider team.
• Ensure accessibility. Design with accessibility in mind and develop an understanding of AA accessibility standards, with guidance from more experienced designers.
• Feedback and iteration. Take part in design reviews and critiques and be open to learning through feedback from senior designers.
• Design systems and consistency. Work within an established design system and begin contributing to it, helping to maintain consistency and quality across our products.
• Focus on outcomes. Learn how to prioritise work that delivers the greatest value to users and the business, with support from the team.

This list is not exhaustive and there may be other activities you are required to deliver.

Qualifications:

• Strong Interest in UI and visual design. You have a strong understanding of core UI principles, evidenced by a portfolio showing strong UI or digital design work, and you’re keen to continue developing your visual design craft.
• Experience in product design. You have experience working on digital products and can demonstrate a foundational knowledge in product design, demonstrated with well-thought-out case studies in your portfolio.
• Familiar with industry software. You can use Figma to a high standard and ideally have some experience in Google Analytics or Clarity.
• Comfortable learning through ambiguity. You are developing confidence working in situations where requirements may not be fully defined, and are willing to ask questions, seek guidance and learn how to move work forward.
• Understanding of user-centred design. You have foundational experience with user research or usability testing and can apply insights to design decisions.
• Collaborative and communicative. You enjoy working with others, are comfortable and confident talking through your work and rationale, and are open to feedback and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Organised and developing ownership. You have strong time management skills and are able to prioritise work to manage deadlines, take responsibility for tasks assigned to you, and deliver work to a high standard with support from senior designers.

Additional Information:

We believe that great things happen when people connect face-to-face. That’s why we work in-person with each other, or with customers and partners, three days a week or more. When you’re not spending time together in one of our offices or other workplaces – like at an Informa event – you get the flexibility and support to work from home or remotely.

We work hard to make sure Life at Informa is rewarding, supportive and enjoyable for everyone. Here’s some of what you can expect when you join us. But don’t just take our word for it – see what our colleagues have to say at LifeAt.Informa.com.

Our benefits include:

• Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks.
• Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available too.
• Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it’s time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves.
• Time out: 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after two years, plus a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year.
• A flexible range of personal benefits to choose from, plus company funded private medical cover.
• A ShareMatch scheme that allows you to become an Informa shareholder with free matching shares.
• Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, a healthy living subsidy, access to health apps and more.
• Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programmes.
• As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world.

We’re not solely focused on a checklist of skills. We champion energy and ambition and look for colleagues who will roll their sleeves up, join in and help make things happen. If it sounds like a match and you have most – although not all – of the skills and experience listed, we welcome your application.

If you would like to request reasonable adjustments or accommodations to assist your participation in the hiring process and, or in the advertised position, please inform the appropriate Talent Acquisition Partner for the role once they have been in touch. Your request will be reviewed and considered in confidence. At Informa, you'll find inclusive experiences and environments where all perspectives and backgrounds are welcomed. As part of this approach and our diversity and inclusion commitments, we are also formally an Equal Opportunities Employer. This means we base decisions on relevant qualifications and merit and do not discriminate on the basis of key characteristics and statuses, including all of those protected by law.

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