About us

The Financial Times ranks among the world’s foremost news organisations. It is known globally for its authority, integrity, and accuracy. Its mission is to provide quality information and services across the globe.

At the FT, curiosity thrives and ambitious thinking is rewarded. Here, you’re given the chance to reach millions, build work that matters and deliver impartial journalism in a polarised world.

In our warm, collaborative culture, you’ll connect with a diverse community of experts who support your growth, career aspirations and wellbeing.

Your future at the FT will be filled with opportunities that challenge and encourage you. With no fixed path, you’ll discover new skills and forge a career that can take you anywhere.

Develop a newsworthy career at the FT.

Our dedication to inclusion and fairness

We believe everyone should have a fair opportunity to contribute, succeed, and reach their full potential. That means ensuring everyone is heard, respected, and valued, while identifying and removing barriers that may get in the way. Our dedication is to be an employer role model, grounded in inclusion and fairness for all.

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The role

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our Editorial Technology team, helping build the tools journalists and editors use to compose, manage, and publish world-class journalism.

You’ll build experiences across Spark, our newsroom content management system (CMS), and related editorial tools supporting written stories, video and audio.

This role involves working on intricate products that directly aid journalism production at the FT. Work often starts without a clear brief or defined project. You will need to be comfortable investigating problems, grasping detailed workflows, and helping decide the appropriate course.

Collaborating with product managers, engineers, and newsroom colleagues, you'll merge user research, systems thinking, and strong design skills to develop intuitive, accessible tools for expert users.

You'll also consider how editorial tools interact with the reader experiences they facilitate across our website and apps, partnering with our Customer Products teams as needed.

AI is increasingly crafting editorial workflows, and you'll have chances to explore how new technologies can assist journalists and editors. These include tools that improve editorial quality and accuracy.

Key responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end build process, from early problem framing and discovery through information architecture, exploration, prototyping, testing and delivery.
Develop a deep understanding of how journalists and editors work, using research, workflow mapping and direct engagement to find opportunities for improvement.
Partner with product managers and engineers to build product direction, define problems and establish clear priorities, particularly where requirements are ambiguous.
Build intuitive, accessible experiences for complex editorial workflows, including the creation and management of written and multimedia content.
Work closely with engineering teams to understand technical architecture, data, systems and constraints, ensuring built solutions are practical and achievable.
Build positive relationships with newsroom collaborators, bringing their expertise into the development process while applying sound design judgement.
Consider how editorial tools connect with customer-facing experiences, collaborating with Customer Products teams to support consistency and shared development patterns.
Communicate build decisions, recommendations and trade-offs clearly, helping teams navigate complexity and make informed decisions.
Investigate ways AI can assist editorial workflows, such as quality and accuracy checks, while collaborating closely with editorial, product, and engineering colleagues.
Use AI-enabled tools such as Codex or Figma Make, where appropriate, to prototype, test ideas and communicate technical assumptions.