Closing Date of Applications-22nd September 2023

Please note this role is known internally as a Digital Design Executive

As part of your application, please attach a link to your portfolio within any attached CV.

Our Story

Manchester City is an English Premier League club whose roots began in East Manchester. From its first incarnation as St Mark’s West Gorton in 1880, the club became Manchester City FC in 1894. Behind each title lies emotion, moments and memories that resonate with millions of supporters around the world. Manchester City fans are known for their commitment and togetherness, as a Club that fights to the end.

Our Winning Team

The Junior UI/UX Designer will be responsible for providing a consistent and thorough UX & UI design to Man City’s Fan Technology Solutions. You'll be part of a multi-disciplinary team working alongside product managers, development teams, researchers, and internal stakeholders contributing to the UX process on projects and creating development ready designs.

This is an exciting role that will develop fan centred designs for digital products which can be implemented by development teams. You will be required to develop user flows and prototypes to test and illustrate UX, UI and design concepts. You’ll take part in user testing sessions to evaluate designs and gather feedback directly from fans, and work with developers to ensure consistency of design throughout the development process.

You’ll be able to work with and iterate on a core set of digital UX/UI design patterns that will form a central digital design system for all current and future digital products.

This is Your City

As part of our team you will be entitled to 26 days annual leave plus an additional day off for your birthday, private healthcare and dental cover, an annual discretionary bonus, plus a range of partnership and lifestyle discounts.

Your Impact

1. Understand product visions and objectives to create design and UX solutions that delivers against this.
2. Use performance metrics, fan feedback and own understanding to proactively refine products and introduce incremental UX and UI improvements and overall digital journey optimisations.
3. Produce detailed design documentation of work packages required so that these can be shared with development teams, internal product managers and 3rd party suppliers.
4. Develop strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to become a trusted digital design advisor and champion within the wider business.
5. Apply agreed branding standards and tools, to achieve well-aligned designed outcomes.

Knowledge,Skills and Experience

Essential

• Experience of creating development ready, responsive designs.
• 1-3 years experience in a Digital UI/UX Design role
• Able to work on all levels of design, from high-level flows and journeys to development ready designs.
• A good understanding of accessible design.
• Good communication skills.
• Proven problem solver.
• Able to work as part of a team or equally independently on design solutions.
• Confident with either Figma, XD or Sketch.

Desirable

• Native iOS and Android design experience.
• Experience of working directly with technical teams.
• Ability to participate and run ideation workshops.
• Experience of developing design patterns as part of a wider design system.
• Experience with Creative Cloud (e.g. Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, After Effects)
• Experience with any of Zeplin, Jira, Confluence, Maze, FigJam/Mira is advantageous

Welcome to your City

City Football Group is on a mission to become the world’s leading sports entertainment organisation, and we will continually push to achieve this with talented colleagues from diverse and wide-ranging backgrounds.

Those different perspectives and experiences will continue to help us empower better lives, create electric moments for the fans and seize opportunities for the future.

Positive impact that leads to lasting change is at the core of our values, if you want to be part of this forward movement, we welcome you