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Form of work Company Description
Nine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company – the home of Australia’s most trusted and loved brands spanning News, Sport, Lifestyle, and Entertainment. We pride ourselves on creating the best content, accessed by consumers when and how they want – across Publishing, Broadcasting and Digital.
Nine’s assets include the 9Network, major mastheads such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review, radio stations 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR, digital properties such as nine.com.au, 9Now, 9Honey, Pedestrian.TV, Drive, subscription video platform Stan and a majority investment in Domain Group.
Our Purpose: We shape culture by sparking conversations, challenging perspectives, and entertaining our communities.
We bring people together by celebrating the big occasions and connecting the everyday moments. Australia belongs here. We bring our purpose to life via three shared values: We walk the talk, turn over every stone and keep it human.
Job Description
The Product team under Nine’s Publishing division is responsible for shaping the digital product experience for a wealth of properties visited by millions of Australians every day. We collaborate with partners from every part of Nine to understand audiences and create meaningful experiences that power Nine’s ambitious growth goals.
As a Junior-Mid Digital Product Designer you will join an agile team of problem solvers, helping to concept, design and build world class digital products. You will create compelling user experiences across web, native apps, and other distribution channels. You will work on our Metro brands, including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Financial Review and The Age, as well as Good Food and Traveller, Nine.com.au, and our bespoke authoring environment Ink. You will contribute to a number of different work streams aligned to your skill set and be given the opportunity to advance your design abilities across a range of disciplines.
Day to day you will:
Collaborate with product managers, technical and design research teams to help drive the best end user experience
Generate ideas and early concepts to explore product opportunities and solve problems
Produce a range of design artefacts including journey maps, wireframes, and prototypes
Work within and expand upon established design systems
Craft high-fidelity UI designs and work closely with engineers to deliver the final product
Communicate effectively and articulate your thinking to other team members
Seek input from team members to drive better design outcomes
Plan, develop and facilitate workshop sessions to collaboratively progress projects with various stakeholders across the business
Contribute to team culture through design reviews, brown bag sessions and team meet-ups
Qualifications
You will bring an insatiable appetite to learn and a willingness to continually try new ways of working. You thrive when you are part of a highly collaborative, motivated and high performing team, and enjoy working with a range of stakeholders to generate ideas while ensuring the right problems are being solved.
Here’s what you'll bring to the team:
Some experience in a hands-on Junior Digital Designer role where you have worked closely with developers to deliver UI designs
Experience using industry standard UI design tools, and knowledge of wireframing, design systems and prototyping tools
A keen eye for detail and an active interest in design trends and topics
An understanding of design patterns across multiple platforms
Excellent communication and storytelling
An understanding of human-centred design thinking
Experience facilitating and managing workshops and collaboration sessions
In return you will be supported to think beyond designs and prototypes, and to apply design thinking approaches to the product development lifecycle. You will be encouraged to develop skills to help you clearly define problems and frame your design decisions with rationale, data and research insights to increase the potential for product success.
Additional Information
Life at Nine
Nine is a people business. Being part of the team means you’ll be in a culture that promotes creativity and innovation, diversity and inclusion, is open to feedback, rewards impact and ensures everyone is heard. Importantly, you'll receive the following:
Career development and quality training
Up to 16 weeks paid primary carer’s parental leave
Discounts on lifestyle, entertainment, and leisure memberships, including health insurance, dental and gym
Discounts on products and services with corporate partners
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At Nine, we are committed to fostering a workforce that embraces all aspects of diversity and inclusion and where practices are equitable to ensure our people experience a sense of belonging. From day one, you'll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best. Should you require any adjustments to the recruitment process in order to equitably participate, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application.
We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.
Disclaimer: We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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