At the South China Morning Post, we are redefining how the world consumes news. We aren't just building interfaces; we are crafting intelligent, personalized, and multi-modal experiences for a global audience.
Purpose of the Position:
As a Senior UX Designer, you will own the UX for key reader-facing product areas — including the reading experience, information architecture, and the paywall and subscription journey — grounding decisions in your own research rather than assumption. We don't yet have a dedicated User Research function, so you'll plan and run your own usability tests, interviews, and surveys, building the practice as you go. Visual/UI execution is handled in partnership with a Product Designer or our design system — your focus is structure, flows, and interaction logic.
We're looking for a strategic, research-minded designer with 5+ years of experience who's comfortable owning their product areas end to end and energised by running their own research.
In this role, you will:
- Reading Experience: Own the UX for core reading experiences — article layouts, multimedia and story formats, and navigation between related content — grounded in how readers actually behave, not assumption.
- Information Architecture: Drive how content is organized, labeled, and navigated across the site and app — including menus, categories, search, and content hierarchies — so readers can find what they're looking for intuitively.
- Paywall & Subscription Experience: Lead the UX for paywall prompts, subscription offer flows, and account/billing touchpoints, balancing conversion goals with a fair, non-frustrating reader experience.
- User Research Partnership: Partner closely with our User Researcher(s) to scope studies, define research questions, and translate findings into design decisions. Where dedicated research support isn't available, plan and run your own lightweight research — usability tests, surveys, or user interviews.
- UX & Interaction Design: Own flows, wireframes, and interaction logic end to end. Partner with a Product Designer or use existing design-system components for high-fidelity visual execution rather than owning UI craft yourself.
- Ownership & Design System Usage: Make independent calls on UX for your product areas, using and contributing to SCMP's design system, and flag gaps or inconsistencies as you encounter them.
- Evidence-Based Design: Ground your design decisions in user research, usability testing, funnel data, and subscription metrics — and be able to explain the evidence behind your calls.
- Collaboration & Mentorship: Partner directly with product managers and engineers as the UX lead on your areas; communicate your reasoning clearly and prepare clean handoff specs. Provide UX feedback and support to junior and mid-level designers.
Skills and Experience that will lead to success:
- Experience: 5+ years of UX/product design experience, ideally in digital media, publishing, subscription products, or content platforms. A portfolio showing strong UX fundamentals — research-driven decisions, clear flows, and systems thinking — over visual/UI polish.
- Research Collaboration: Comfortable partnering with or assisting a User Researcher — from shaping research questions to running your own usability tests and interviews when needed.
- Information Architecture: Ability to structure and organize complex content sets — navigation, taxonomy, search, and content relationships — so they make sense to a broad, global audience.
- Paywall & Subscription Familiarity: Comfort with subscription, e-commerce, or conversion-focused flows — understanding how design choices affect conversion and retention without undermining reader trust.
- Product & Strategic Thinking: You connect user flows to real business and reader outcomes, and use evidence — not opinion — to justify design decisions.
- The Toolset: Strong Figma skills for wireframing, flows, and prototyping. Comfortable working within an existing design system rather than building high-fidelity UI from scratch.
- Independent UX Judgment: You can make and defend UX decisions independently, and you're comfortable pushing back on stakeholders with evidence.
- Accessibility: Familiarity with WCAG 2.1 AA and a track record of designing accessible experiences.
Work location will be at Causeway Bay office.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of UX or product design experience
- Portfolio demonstrating research-driven UX decisions, clear flows, and systems thinking
- Experience partnering with or assisting user researchers
- Ability to conduct usability tests, surveys, and user interviews
- Information architecture experience, including navigation, taxonomy, search, and content relationships
- Familiarity with subscription, e-commerce, or conversion-focused flows
- Strong Figma skills for wireframing, flows, and prototyping
- Ability to work within an existing design system
- Independent UX judgment and evidence-based decision-making
- Familiarity with WCAG 2.1 AA and accessible design experience
- Experience in digital media, publishing, subscription products, or content platforms
What We Do
The South China Morning Post is a leading news media company that has reported on China and Asia for more than a century with global impact. Founded in 1903, SCMP is headquartered in Hong Kong, where it is the city’s newspaper of record, with a growing correspondent staff across Asia and the United States. Our vision is to “Elevate Thought”, and our mission is to “Lead the global conversation about China”. The South China Morning Post is a global digital news leader with a unique role in championing the plurality of voices in Asia through its breadth and depth of news coverage. SCMP is committed to informing and inspiring through journalism of the highest standards. Apart from its flagship newspaper, SCMP also publishes news 24/7 on SCMP.com. In 2020, SCMP became the first news organisation in Asia to join the Trust Project, a consortium of top news companies developing global transparency standards for credible journalism. Additionally, SCMP publishes a portfolio of premium lifestyle and fashion titles in Hong Kong including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire and, Harper’s BAZAAR. SCMP is also home to Abacus, a digital news brand focused on China's tech industry; Inkstone, a daily news brief for those curious about China's growing impact around the world; and Goldthread, a content platform with a focus on food, travel and culture in China. For more information, please visit us at www.scmp.com. Our Privacy Notice aims to comply with all relevant data privacy and protection laws. You should read the Privacy Notice in full at http://corp.scmp.com/privacy-policy
