Principal Product Designer

At Viaplay Group, we entertain millions of people every day through our streaming services, radio networks, and TV channels. We believe in the power of content not just as a way of telling stories and touching lives, but also expanding worlds.

We’re looking for the best people to join us on our journey. Right now, we’re searching for a Principal Product Designer in our Stockholm office –are you ready to hit play on an exciting career change?

The Role

As a Principal Product Designer, you will be focused on driving the vision and overall strategy of Product Design at Viaplay as well as elevating the product across mobile, web and TV in a newly formed team whose mission is to create visually dynamic and engaging experience for our customers. In your role, you will ensure we have an efficient and sustainable strategy for product design across all platforms.

You will split your time being hands-on within a cross-functional team, and collaborate closely with the design guild and the other platform guilds to ensure best design practices and processes. You will work to ensure a brand-wide consistency and delightful experience for our customers now and in the future. You will design cutting-edge concepts as well as feature improvements, and it will all provide lots of challenges and fun.

You will ensure our design solutions are aligned with industry standards, accessibility guidelines, and modern design frameworks. You stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously elevate our design standards.

What we’re looking for

We are looking for a designer with a strong portfolio in digital product design. You are passionate about pushing the boundaries, have a solid experience in multi-platform design, are a strong advocate for the design process, and want to be part of a fun team working to transform the streaming experience for our customers.

More specifically, you have:

• Experience: Strong background working with user experience and user interface design, preferably at various companies
• Platform knowledge: Experience designing for mobile, tablets and web
• Collaboration: Experience working in cross-functional teams. Eager to include other designers, researchers, product managers, developers, and stakeholders in the design process to gather input and diverse perspectives
• UI: Confident creating visual designs based on company brand guidelines and design system
• UX: Incorporate design principles and apply intuitive user-centric design solutions based on user insights gathered from quantitative and qualitative research
• Design process: Experience contributing to the complete product development lifecycle. Familiar with different design methods and ability to apply and adapt
• Tool: Expert knowledge of Figma as it is the main design tool we use in the company
• Research: Knowledge and experience conducting qualitative and quantitative research (e.g. User interviews, usability testings, surveys)
• Design system: Creating and maintaining
• Prototyping: Using various design tools to create prototypes to communicate and validate design solutions
• Experience with Stakeholder management
• Experience working with Design Strategy

What we offer you

• We’ve got you covered! 30 days of paid vacation every year, an attractive pension and insurance scheme, and generous parental leave pay lift.
• Your wellbeing matters. We provide you with various wellbeing initiatives including wellness allowance.
• A safe space to grow and up-skill. Our learning culture puts you in the driver’s seat of your own development.
• An innovative environment with Hack Days once a year. This week-long initiative allows you to think outside the box and deliver creative, technical solutions that (more often than not) go on to be implemented, either in our product or our ways of working.
• Entertainment is what we love, and entertainment is what we do. So, unlimited access to Viaplay seems only fair for you to get to know the product –including serier & viewing events, new release movie rentals, linear channels and more.

Hit play today

If this feels like your kind of challenge, make sure you apply by attaching your CV here –you may also want to add your LinkedIn profile. Please don’t send us your application via email because we won’t be able to accept it. We do, however, welcome any questions you may have about this particular position. Want to learn more about who we are and what we do? Check out our careers page or follow us on Instagram! We’re only ever a few clicks away.