Senior Content Designer

The role

As a member of the Experience Design team, you'll collaborate with user research and partner with product design to support people throughout their moving journeys on Rightmove.  

You’ll be a senior member of our small, centralised content design team, shaping connected experiences across the home-hunting, renting and owning. You’ll use and contribute to our Design System so patterns, language and behaviours stay consistent and aligned. 

Reporting to the Content Design Manager, you'll be based in our Soho London office 2 days a week, with occasional visits required to the Milton Keynes office. 

What you’ll be doing 

• Owning content design on key initiatives, shaping clear and connected experiences. 
• Holding responsibility for the clarity, coherence, and effectiveness of content across the experiences you shape.
• Sharing accountability for content quality, consistency and risk across product areas, providing senior judgement beyond individual delivery areas and mentoring CDs.
• Partnering closely with product design, research, and product to shape usercentred outcomes.
• Bringing clarity to complex problems and guiding teams towards confident, informed decisions.  
• Supporting wider teams through prioritised work and dropin guidance, helping to scale content design across the organisation. 
• Using your own research and analysis, across user and market insights, to guide teams, inform decisions, and challenge assumptions constructively.
• Working with product design and research to shape endtoend journeys where content and structure align across touchpoints.
• Defining and evolving content patterns and structures, contributing to our Design System.   
• Framing challenges and identifying opportunities early. 
• Facilitating alignment across product, design, research, and marketing.
• Championing accessible, inclusive content and embedding it in how we work. 

We’re looking for someone who 

• Has a passion for user experience andmaking the process of renting, buying, selling, and moving easier.
• Thinks analytically about user journeys and how content shapes behaviour. 

• Enjoys being a proactive, hands-on contributor and collaborative team player. 

• Brings a content design lens to any stage of the process: from user research, information architecture, user interface design, and embedding content strategically. 

• Manages their time comfortably to deliver on multiple defined problem spaces in a fast-moving, agile environment. 

• Balances the needs of multiple stakeholders to prioritise tasks and deliver to deadlines. 

• Communicates their decisions clearly and can talk through their logic. 

• Understands user behaviour and business success through qualitative and quantitative insights. 

• Experiments with language using user research tools to test and learn. 

• Proactively hunts out opportunities to impact
  a defined problem area. 

• Finds new and innovative ways to use generative AI to think, plan, and design faster and better. 

What you’ll bring to the role 

• Proven experience designing content within complex, multitouch-point journeys and product environments. 
• Strong information architecture skills, shaping clear structures, content models, and patterns.
• A track record of shaping product thinking through evidence and strategic framing. 
• Confidence contributing to and evolving design systems.  
• Skill in facilitating workshops and guiding teams to alignment. 
• Literacy in accessibility standards and inclusive design, with confidence applying both in practice.
• Experience mentoring or supporting other designers.
• A passion for user experience and for making the process of renting, buying, selling, and moving easier.  
• Experience in marketplace or multisided products, or curiosity to quickly build domain fluency.
• Curiosity and openness to new tools and techniques, including thoughtful use of AI to improve quality and efficiency. 

About Rightmove  

 
Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust and belief to make it happen. We're home to the UK's largest choice of properties and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what's on the market. Despite this growth, we’ve remained a friendly, supportive place to work, with employee #1 still working here! We’ve done this by placing the Rightmove How's at the heart of everything we do. These are the essential values that reflect our culture, and include: 

• We create value…by delivering results and building trust with partners and consumers.   

• We think bigger…by acting with curiosity and setting bold aspirations.  

• We care deeply…by being real, having fun, and valuing diversity.   

• We move together…by being one team - internally collaborative, externally competitive.   

• We make a difference…by focusing on delivering measurable impact.   

We believe in careers that open doors and help our team develop by providing an open and inclusive work environment, offering ongoing training opportunities, and supporting charity fundraising events. 

And with 88% of Rightmovers saying we’re
a great place to work, we’re clearly doing something right!   

 If all this has caught your eye, you may well be a Rightmover in the making...   

What we offer:

• Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments   

• Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan   

• 27 days holiday plus two (paid) volunteering days a year to give back, and holiday buy schemes   

• Hybrid working pattern with 2 days in office   

• Contributory stakeholder pension   

• Life assurance at 4x your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person in your life   

• Competitive compensation package   

• Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility   

• Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan   

• Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching   

• Access deals and discounts on things like travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema discounts and more   

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Rightmove will never discriminate on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation. At Rightmove, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success. We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of their background or identity, to develop and promote a diverse culture that references the communities we serve.