Profile

Within the UEFA digital unit, your role will be mainly focused on 3 key aspects:

• Properly support external consultants and teams to make sure the outcomes of their work are following industry best practices and are aligned to UEFA needs & standards (and do the actual work in some projects);
• Continuously improving the Design process at UEFA, making sure that value-added to our users is maximised at any release; and
• Spreading the word about Design internally across UEFA and our partners to increase the level of Design knowledge in the whole product delivery team.

We need a hands-on senior Digital product designer, someone able to do the actual work in some projects, but also being able to lead and support external UX consultants and partners.

Purpose

• Create or lead the creation of concepts, wireframes, prototypes, analyse data, conduct user research and experiments
• Work closely with our Product Owners and Business Managers to make sure we deliver the right product, and that the product is right
• Improve the current Design processes and techniques
• Set-up standards, guidelines, patterns to be reused across different projects
• Have a close look at the industry best practices and latest trends, and apply them whenever it makes sense
• Enrich and enlarge our current user knowledge base with new experiments or ad-hoc user research
• Work closely with our Product Owners and Business Managers to make sure all UEFA stakeholders are aware of our deliveries and that we’ve gathered properly their needs
• Contribute to the growth of the Design knowledge and awareness within UEFA using key soft skills of a UX designer: communication, collaboration, empathy
• Contribute to the success metrics definition for all the products

Requirements

• Experience in designing creative and innovative concepts in a complex framework with multiple constraining factors
• Proven sports industry and UX design experience is a plus
• Being proactive, having great communication skills and with experience working on remote teams are a must
• You have at least 5 years of experience designing at the sports industry, consumer-focused products or media companies. You should have experience in a multi-brand ecosystem of sites/apps, working closely with developers and talking the same language.

Education

• Must-have formal design education or proven equivalent

Languages

• English / Proficient

Travel

• This is a remote job, with a 2 days trip to Nyon every other week. You’ll be working remotely with other designers, product owners and developers in an agile environment. Living in Europe is mandatory.

Additional Requirements

• Knowledge and mastery on prototyping tools
• Knowledge and mastery of web analytics tools
• Experience defining and documenting guidelines
• Experience identifying and documenting interaction patterns
• Experience on A/B testing tools
• Experience in user research & user testing tools
• Experience working as a product designer in an agile environment, i.e: inside scrum teams.