Product Designer, Visual Merchandising - Global Streaming

Job Description

Responsibilities

NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service.

Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we'll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.

Job Description

The Global Streaming Platform powers the best entertainment experiences from Peacock, NOW/WOW, SkyShowtime, and Showmax. When you join our team, you'll work across our dynamic portfolio supported by media industry leaders Comcast, NBCUniversal, and Sky. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We're always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth, and consistently offer a best-in-class consumer experience across more than 70 countries. Most importantly, we're backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire our people to thrive.

The Viewing Product team lives and breathes design excellence. We're a cross-functional team of product managers, UX researchers, UX designers, product engineers, and data scientists. Here you'll find more than a job. You'll find a fast-paced, high-performance team of incredible colleagues that want to be at the epicenter of technology, sports, news, TV, movies and more. Our work is central to our mission to deliver a future-focused user experience across our best-in-class streaming platforms. Together, we're focused on getting customers to content they love, faster and easier.

What You Will Do

Part of the Product Design team, the Product Designer, Visual Merchandising will create best-in-class design experiences across our platforms to showcase streaming content and live events. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Product Design, Visual Merchandising, we're seeking a skilled Product Designer to elevate the visual impact and UX across our streaming platforms. The ideal candidate will have a keen eye for detail, a passion for consistency, and the ability to translate complex challenges into clear, systematic, and visually compelling solutions.
• Craft a cohesive visual language and design patterns that enhance the user experience, effectively present curated content and live events, and drive content discovery across TV, web, and mobile platforms.
• Elevate usability through strategic use of imagery, color, shapes, typography, and form, ensuring our experiences are premium, informative, and aligned with our brand identity.
• Conceptualize, design, and implement visually compelling and effective solutions that align with product requirements, brand guidelines, and strategic objectives.
• Develop comprehensive toolkits including design mockups, production of visual assets and components, plus comprehensive documentation to help communicate the use and implementation across platforms.
• Collaborate with Product, Editorial, Brand, and Research to make informed decisions and drive design directions that always put the user first. You'll build products our users love based on design insights, media trends, and robust user testing.
• Apply a data-driven approach to every decision you make, reducing friction and increasing engagement all while creating a consistent, scalable user experience. You'll contribute directly to success metrics around subscriber growth, retention, and engagement.
• Manage multiple projects and work efficiently in a deadline-driven environment, without sacrificing quality. You'll also independently lead small- to medium-sized projects from conception to launch, driving stakeholder reviews and expert execution.
• Consistently advocate for user needs throughout your process.
• Actively participate in design critiques, bringing fresh ideas to the broader team.

Who You Are
• An experienced designer with relentlessly high standards and operational knowledge of UX and product design. You understand the value of staying current on visual and cultural trends.
• A systems thinker. Adept at automating systems and processes through sustainable, scalable design patterns, libraries, and tools.
• A great communicator who understands the power of feedback. You have the communication and influencing skills to help you work cross-functionally with internal stakeholders and rally people towards a common goal.
• Curious, empathetic, driven, reliable, confident in your skills, and ready to soar. Without an ego.

Qualifications
• Minimum 3 years of experience in media, branding, advertising, or a relevant field as a UX/Product Designer, Visual Designer, or Brand Designer.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual and UX design skills, rooted in user-centered principles.
• A passion for exploring new and innovative visual approaches.
• An uncompromised bar of quality for digital experiences and how they're represented across platforms.
• Experience working across a variety of design areas, including UX, branding, visual design, and product marketing. Experience working in a technical environment is a plus.
• Expert proficiency with leading design tools, including Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, as well as other collaboration and prototyping tools.
• A rich understanding of component-based design and design systems to contribute to a scalable, sustainable approach that enables speed to market, evolution, and optimization.
• Experience working with strategic design, creative direction, and visual design systems.
• An understanding of the best design practices across different media, platforms, and devices.

Nice to Have
• Experience leading design analysis and site audits.
• Illustration and/or motion graphics experience.
• Branding, Marketing, and/or Ecommerce experience.
• Understanding of platforms like Roku, Fire TV, Samsung, Apple TV, Xfinity X1, etc.
• Ability to operate independently and manage multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment.
• Experience developing and delivering creative strategy.

Additional Information

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $120,000 - $165,000 (bonus and long-term incentive eligible)

NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protect

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