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Date: 12 Jul 2023
Location: London, GB, NW1 2PL
Req ID: 881
We are looking for a Strategic Product Designer to join our digital team in London.
You will be working closely with stakeholders to bring ideas to life through your creative skills and understanding of what is technically possible. As a Strategic Product Designer, you will be creating radio and audio listening experiences that delight and engage Bauer Media Audio’s consumers across web, mobile applications, voice, and connected devices. Digital is an integral part of our mission to make our listeners’ world sound better and our vision to be a global audio pioneer. Our digital products represent some of Europe’s biggest radio brands, including KISS FM and Absolute Radio in the UK, Mix Megapol, Radio Nova, The Voice, and RadioPlay in the Nordics.
As a Digital Product Designer, you will be working to evangelise innovation through out the business to help Bauer Audio continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible. You will be expected to grow ideas from ideation through to design and work closely with product teams to drive digital innovation across their new product: Rayo (a digital offering to bring all of Bauer’s audio offering under one platform) and beyond.
As a company Bauer Media hold creative ambition and agility as part of their core values, and constantly striving to make things happen. This means innovation is key to the business, giving you the opportunity to positively disrupt and innovate.
Our Team
Bauer Media Audio operates a ‘hub and spoke’ model for digital. The central digital team supports our country business units with strategy, insight, innovation, product management, technology, IP distribution and support. Our country teams are responsible for local planning, content, and commercial delivery. As part of a combined community of digital experts, the teams work in partnership to create outstanding services to our users and deliver commercial success.
As a team we thrive on combining local market excellence with a wider, global perspective.
What you'll do
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Support with embedding a new culture of innovation, educating the business on digital ways of thinking and running initiatives such as design sprints and hack days and embedding design thinking.
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Manage the day to day running of the Innovation Challenge. A yearly initiative set up to crowd source ideas across 9 different countries.
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Take an idea and rapidly turn it into a visual Proof of Concept using a variety of tools to shortcut the need for development resources e.g. sketched concepts, wireframes, user journeys, personas, videos or navigational prototypes.
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You will be working on ideas/problems that cover a vast range of topics and will manifest in many different visualisations/prototypes. This may include UI Design, sketching skills, video editing. You will need to be adaptable.
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Design, manage and facilitate activities, from half day workshops to iterative development sprints across our key territories (UK, Portugal, Ireland, Nordics, Poland & Slovakia).
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Bring cutting edge digital innovations to the attention of the Central Digital Team by keeping abreast of recent developments in the industry.
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Proactively guerilla test concepts to ensure our audiences are feeding into the design process.
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Break down problems into component parts and be able to identify key data needed to support your decisions.
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Succinctly pitch your work to senior stakeholders.
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Work closely with the dev team to explain ideas and hand over prototypes.
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Support the team with storytelling whether thats via infographics, videos or any other skills you may have.
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Create business cases for new ideas & analyse the potential by understanding the size of the opportunity and potential return.
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Run retrospectives.
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Set up and manage a community of Innovation champions.
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In partnership with Bauer Academy (our education hub) run a ‘Train the trainer’ programme matching trained workshop facilitators with business problems.
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Project Manage the creation of POCs and present the value back to the business.
What you'll bring
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An understanding of design thinking, and design experience from personas through to sketched concepts.
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Passionate about innovation, identifying opportunities and bringing them to life.
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Experience working with technical teams and senior stakeholders to show case vision and design.
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The ability to spot new opportunities, and the ROI that could be associated with this.
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An evangelist for innovation culture, who loves to educate others and implement best practice.
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Is comfortable in facilitating workshops.
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Confident public speaker and storyteller.
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Happy producing different types of visualisations from UI, video editing and infographics.
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Experience assessing the size of an opportunity.
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Proficient in writing business cases and pitching ideas and concepts.
Package Description
Rewards packages at Bauer Media offer a range of salary sacrifice Benefits, such as our pension scheme and flexible holidays, as well as exclusive Perks like great deals and discounts for everyday life.
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays + 2 volunteer days
- Internal Bauer Academy – Wide range of learning opportunities to support with your Career Development
- Opportunity to buy additional holiday
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme, tech loan scheme and groups discounts for healthcare insurance
- Discounted subscriptions on Bauer publications (50%)
- Thrive initiatives – Wellbeing at Bauer
- Opportunities to contribute to our Belonging@Bauer and Sustainability initiatives
- Discounted high street vouchers
About Bauer Media Group
Bauer Media UK is part of the wider Bauer Media Group and is the No.1 UK Publisher and the No.1 Digital Commercial Audio broadcaster. We reach 25 million consumers across our Radio and Publishing brands such as Greatest Hits, KISS, Grazia, Today's Golfer, Absolute, TV Choice, Scala, Country Walking, Hits Radio, CAR, Magic, MCN, Jazz FM, Puzzles and many more!
Bauer Media Group has remained one of the world’s most successful media companies for nearly 150 years through our commitment to continuous innovation and consumer obsession. Founded in Hamburg in 1875 and now in our fifth generation of family ownership, our multi-national company operates in 13 countries across Europe, reaching 200 million consumers.
Belonging at Bauer Mission statement
People are at the heart of everything we do. Inclusivity is part of who we are. We celebrate diversity in all its forms, and encourage authenticity, knowing that our differences are celebrated.
What we will offer you
Quite simply, our promise to you is that Bauer Media is a great place to do great work with great people. Our people take an enormous amount of pride in the brands they support. They like their team members, and they feel supported by their managers. We all take collective responsibility for our culture, because we know it has a ripple effect out across our brands. That’s why our culture of inclusion at work, Belonging at Bauer, is at the heart of everything we do. Belonging at Bauer is about our dual goals of being as representative as we can of the audiences we serve, and about creating a working environment where all our people feel able to bring their whole selves to work every day. It’s part of everything we do, and everyone who works here is responsible. If you join us, you’ll be an important part of this as well.
Our mental health at work
We’re proud to be the driving force behind the “Where’s your head at?” campaign, which is working to put Mental Health First Aiders on an equal footing with traditional workplace First Aiders. This is a priority for all of us that work at Bauer and we now have fully trained Mental Health First Aiders supporting and working across all of our UK locations.
Learning and Development
As the only Media company to be in the top 100 apprenticeship employers, we are striving to always be a great place to do great work for all, Bauer is committed to offering learning and development initiatives through its Bauer Academy tailored to its people, empowering teams and individuals to grow and progress in their careers.
Please Note: We are actively seeking this position. You should hear from us within 48 hours of the expiry date. Please note on some occasions the role may be closed before date shown or need to be extended.
Bauer Core Values
Passion
We LOVE what we do – it inspires, unifies and challenges us. Our passion is contagious – both loud and quiet, making the impossible possible.
Excellence
Our desire for excellence fuels our ambition for personal and business growth.
Trust
We value honesty and integrity. Trust is our foundation, empowering our people to live up to their full potential.
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is our pursuit of opportunity – we are agile, focused and resourceful
If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process please email careershub@bauermedia.co.uk we would love to hear from you.
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