Design Manager, Financial Times
Internal Products & Platforms
2+ days a week in office
Global business publication
Be an early applicant
Global business publication
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
The FT has an uncompromising mission: delivering independent, quality information, news and services to individuals and companies around the globe. It’s the cornerstone of our reputation and the heart of our ambitions for the future.
Role
Who you are
- A seasoned Design System champion with multi brand experience
- Demonstrable examples of enabling career progression
- A User Experience advocate who’s comfortable taking decisive action when required
- An expert collaborator who’s great at relationship building and stakeholder management
- A B2B enthusiast who recognises the power of Internal Products in relation to a broader Product portfolio
- A portfolio showcasing key responsibilities through experience or demonstrable case studies
- Demonstrated proficiency in design system best practices
- Experience and familiarity working on Internal Products
- Experience of and knowledge working in Figma and relevant tools
- An expert in all forms of communication
What the job involves
- As the leader of the Internal Products & Platforms design team, you'll manage a small but impactful team of four designers
- Your team's responsibilities encompass an integral range of Internal Products, including Origami, the Financial Times design system, Spark our CMS and on occasion Core Platforms used by approx 2000 internal employees
- Collaborating with other Design and Research Managers, you'll work towards developing team capabilities, maintaining a positive team culture, optimising efficiency, and ultimately ensuring high-quality experiences across the entire product portfolio
- To achieve these goals effectively, you'll work closely with team leads from Product Management, Engineering, Research and Delivery
- Your input will be instrumental in shaping product strategy, defining OKRs and managing team workloads while taking accountability for all design activities and outcomes
- Design system vision and strategy: Collaborate with senior leadership and peers to formulate and communicate a clear vision, strategy, and roadmap for Origami
- Drive design system adoption: Create documentation, self-service tools and contribution models to facilitate and scale design system adoption
- Mentor and coach designers: Help designers improve their design craft by utilising clear design standards set out in the design system
- Team leadership: Manage and develop a small, highly motivated team of designers
- Influence product strategy: Collaborate with Product and Tech partners to plan and shape current and future initiatives, deploying your team to maximum effect
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Founded in 1888, the FT has grown into one of the world's biggest online and broadsheet economics and business news providers. It has a strong focus on financial journalism and economic analysis, and provides this essential analysis to companies and individuals across the world.
As well as economics and business, the FT also offers sections on opinion, life and arts, how to spend, and more. In 2022, six of its writers won awards in science, data and investment categories, illustrating the breadth and quality of the FT’s journalism.
The company adapts well to changes in the market to maintain its readership. For example, it recently launched a digital hub and weekly newsletter called Cryptofinance to shine a light on the digital asset industry and how innovations are rippling into mainstream finance.
The FT Group employs more than 2300 people worldwide, including 700 journalists in 40 countries. It includes the FT, FT Specialist, and a number of services and joint ventures. FT's focus on providing impartial, high-quality content has gained it a record-paying readership of over a million, three-quarters of which are digital subscriptions.
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52% female employees
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- A range of training courses as well as confidential career coaching and mentoring
- Flexibility - working from home, job sharing, compressed weeks, and flexible working hours
- Enhanced parental leave, flexible leave allowance and paid volunteer leave
- Pension contribution
- Local health coverage plans
- Gym memberships and healthcare schemes, professional counselling sessions, 24-hour employee wellbeing helpline, weekly meditation classes
- Financial wellbeing products and services
Company values
- Ambition
- Curiosity
- Integrity
- Trust
- Inclusion
- Subscriber focus
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
John Ridding
(CEO)After studying for a degree in PPE at Oxford, John worked as Chairman of Pearson Asia, as well as editor of the FT in Asia. In 2006, he was appointed CEO of the FT Group.
Roula Khalaf
(Editor)Following a degree at Columbia University and four years at Forbes, Khalaf joined the FT in 1995 as Associate Editor and Middle East Editor. Since January 2020, she has served as Editor.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Financial Times
Yasir Mirza (Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion)
- D&I annual report
- Reporting pay gaps
- Next generation board
- Employee networks, including Proud FT, FT Embrace, FT Women, FT Families, FT Sustainability, FT Mental Health and FT Access,
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