At DN Media Group, we work to create products and solutions that allow our journalism to shine and give the reader the insight they need to make better decisions.

As a UX designer for our editorial products, you work at the heart of the company. You will solve user problems for ten different publications who are market leaders within their sectors: shipping, seafood, energy, and business news. Across our titles we have more than 3,5 million visits every week, which means that a lot of people will benefit from what you work on every day! You will work from Oslo, but you will also be part of a global team with colleagues in London, Singapore, Dhaka and Stamford.

Your strategic role:

• You set the team first and focus on collective wins over individual results.
• You are an excellent listener who asks clarifying questions.
• You contribute to a safe, social, and professional team environment
• You focus on user problems before solutions
• You guide DN Media Group designers in the design system use and design principles

Your day-to-day:

• You'll join DN Media Group's product & technology department, working with UX designers, product managers, developers, analysts, and data scientists.
  As a Senior UX Designer, you will play a key role in the product development for all our 10 news products. Our Common Publication Product team design and build reusable product components and creates and maintain the design system. This important and foundational work helps other product development teams run fast and make sure we provide a consistent user experience. It also set us up for fast versioning of newly developed features to all our news products.
  Your workdays will be diverse, focusing on design, collaboration, and strategic planning. You'll lead workshops, talk to users, present ideas to stakeholders, work hands-on with design in Figma and mentor and guide the whole UX design community. 

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Develop, maintain and continuously improve the common component design system
• Ensure regular contact with the newsrooms and end user
• Hands-on design work in Figma
• Utilize data and user insights for design improvement and opportunity discovery
• In close collaboration with the tech lead and the product manager, you ensure the whole team balance user needs, business value and technical feasibility
• Ensure accessibility compliance (WCAG) in design solutions
• Ensure Product consistency and usability
• Collaborate with all cross-functional teams for design system implementation
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder presentation
• Mentor other designers and contribute to UX best practices

Your background: 

• Minimum 5 years UX design experience (related experience can compensate)
  
• Expert-level Figma proficiency
  
• Expertise in user empathy methods.
  
• Solid understanding of responsive design and accessibility (WCAG)
  
• Experience in cross-functional team collaboration
  
• Excellent communication skills in both Norwegian and English
  
• Ability to think strategically and see the big picture
  
• Media industry experience is a big plus
  

 Are you ready to join our product and tech community?

If yes, we would love to hear from you. We will consider applications even if you don’t meet every single one of the above requirements, so do not be put off if you don’t match them perfectly!

Do you have questions?

My name is Lena Beate Hamborg Pedersen and I am head of product and design in DN Media Group. Please reach out on phone +4799640454 or through LinkedIn if you have questions about this position.

About DN Media Group

DN Media Group is a global media group that will grow and strengthen our position as a leading media group within our priority areas: business news, seafood, shipping and energy. We have a global presence with publications in English and Norwegian. Our publications are highly rewarded for their journalism. We invest significant resources in our technology platforms and continuously develop both existing and new solutions to meet the needs of the target group.

We are an equal opportunities employer who wants to attract qualified applicants regardless to gender, religion, national or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age or political opinion. Diversity is fundamental to our culture and we invite you to be part of this diversity!

And for what is on offer for you as a new colleague take a look at the People & Culture department at career pages.

Please note that for the security of our customers and our employees, we always conduct an ID and right to work check as part of the recruitment process.