Mid-Weight Product Designer

CLOSING DATE: 5th December 2025

About The Role

As a Mid-weight Product Designer in The Telegraph’s Puzzles (Games) team, you’ll deliver end-to-end design solutions with a high degree of autonomy. You’ll work from initial research and ideation through to final visuals, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility. You’ll also support junior designers by sharing your knowledge and best practices.

Key responsibilities

• Lead design for well-scoped projects or significant parts of larger initiatives.
• Plan and conduct unmoderated usability tests and interpret findings to iterate designs.
• Deliver responsive, accessible and high-quality user journeys and interfaces.
• Contribute new patterns and components to The Telegraph Design System.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers and stakeholders to shape solutions.
• Present design rationale with clarity to peers and cross-functional partners.

About you

• Proven product design experience, ideally in digital products at scale.
• Confident working independently, comfortable handling ambiguity within briefs.
• Strong interaction and visual design skills with a high attention to detail.
• Analytical mindset — able to use research and data insights to inform decisions.
• Supportive and collaborative team member, open to feedback and mentoring juniors.

Essential skills

• Portfolio showing strong interaction and visual design, with clear user-centred process.
• Professional experience delivering product design across responsive platforms (web and/or app).
• Experience running or contributing to usability testing and research activities.
• Skilled in Figma and prototyping tools, with ability to share and explain work clearly.
• Knowledge of accessibility standards and how to apply them in practice.

Useful skills

• Experience contributing to a Design System.
• Knowledge of subscription, publishing or e-commerce product design.
• Ability to create supporting illustrations, icons or simple animations.
• Interest in experimentation and optimisation (A/B or MVT testing).
• Basic familiarity with front-end technologies for collaboration with engineers.

Our benefits

The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Training and development

With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.

Our commitment to inclusion

At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

We are proud to be a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader as part of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.

To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website.