Design Graduate Placement

About this programme

We've got a year-long programme where you’ll get the chance to work in different areas of the Sky Design team. This could include:

• Entertainment – We put entertainment at the heart of the home by creating immersive, personalised, and accessible experiences.
• Sports – We create world-class, personalised sports experiences that connect fans to their favourites and give them the best seat in the house.
• New Products – We're responsible for designing the next wave of global experiences in gaming, health, fitness, education, travel, social, immersive, and more.
• Commerce - We enable a scalable, world-class, global commerce experience that is the platform of choice for operators, partners and customers.
• Platform – We define, drive, and establish our Heart of the Home experience as the world's most connected platform.
• Experimentation - We design the possible, transforming abstract ideas and concepts into tangible experiences with a user-centric, problem-solving design approach.

What you’ll be doing

• Become one of the team, working on real projects that shape the products we make.
• Work with the Lead and Senior designers who will support and mentor you to discover your new career.
• Learn how to use design tools like Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Userzoom, and more.
• Develop your presentation skills and discover how to communicate your design ideas to others.
• Work with UX researchers on planning and conducting research, learning how to analyse data and produce impactful insights that can be used to improve our user’s experience
• Get stuck into design processes and learn about giving and receiving feedback. products.

Skills you'll learn:

• Visual design - creating a winning look & feel for our user interfaces and products
• Wireframing & prototyping – building the bones of the product on which everything hangs
• User research - Uncover user needs and get close to the customer using a wide variety of research methods
• Motion & interaction design - creating movement and novel ways of interacting with products
• Information architecture – working out the structure of what our users see
• UX Copy - carefully scrutinising and contemplating each and every word our customers interact with.

What we're looking for

• You might already have a design related degree or experience, or you might have some less formal learning. We’re ready to help you learn whatever your level.
• Lifelong learner – you’re learning every day and thirsty to know more.
• Passionate about design – you're excited about creating things – both visually and conceptually. You’ve got a good eye for the detail but you can also step back and see the bigger picture when you need to.
• Curious – you’re dying to know what’s going on in the head of your user. You ask questions and you’re fascinated by the answers.
• New perspectives – you bring your ideas to work and share them liberally.
• Someone you love to work with – you're a person we can get along with. You communicate your ideas and designs well. You share the Sky Design team values: Play Nice, Serious Fun, Be Bold and Captivated by Customers.
• Can-do attitude - you’re not afraid to muck in and do what needs to be done, with a healthy sense of passion. Sometimes you even do things that scare you.
• Some examples of your previous work that you can show off (e.g. a portfolio).

Eligibility

It’s a crucial requirement is that you have an undergraduate degree (or are about to complete one) and are aged 18 and over by September 2024.

To be eligible for this role you are required to have the appropriate right to work in the UK by the start date of the programme. Please be aware Sky does not offer sponsorship for this programme.

Please ensure that you only apply for one of these positions, based on how your interests, knowledge, skills and experience align with the role. Creative Access may recommend your application for a different placement if it is a better fit.

Status

We work with Creative Access to offer our placements and the application process is initially managed by them.

To get started, first click on the Apply now button and you’ll be redirected to the Creative Access website to complete the application form. The application form includes, a CV, cover letter, motivational questions and the opportunity to upload your design portfolio.

We are really interested in projects or pieces of work that you have created and the process you took to create these. Please include a URL link to examples of your work or portfolio that you think best demonstrates this