UX designer, Ad Solutions

The company

Schibsted is a Nordic digital company with leading positions in news media and digital services. Every day, millions of people use our products to stay informed, make decisions, and connect with the world around them.

Strategic purpose of the role

As UX Designer, Ad Solutions, you support the development and evolution of Admarket — Schibsted’s advertising platform — by ensuring that we deliver a clear, intuitive, and effective user experience.

Working closely with product managers and engineers, you translate product goals and requirements into user-centred design solutions. Through research, ideation, and design, you help ensure that solutions address real user needs while aligning with business objectives and technical constraints.

You contribute throughout the product development process — from discovery and concept exploration to detailed design and iterative improvements — helping the team deliver high-quality experiences that are scalable, consistent, and easy to use.

Role tasks and responsibilities

• Support product and platform development through research, ideation, and design

• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to identify problems and shape solutions

• Explore and validate design solutions through sketches, prototypes, or interactive concepts using the most effective tools available

• Deliver clear specifications and documentation to support engineering implementation

• Contribute to maintaining and evolving the design system

• Evaluate and improve existing user experiences through research, analytics, and feedback

• Ensure that designs meet usability, accessibility, and quality standards

• Experiment with new tools and workflows — including AI-assisted prototyping or rapid concept builds — to explore and validate solutions faster

Challenges in the role / special complexity

• Designing solutions for a platform used by multiple user groups with different needs and workflows

• Balancing usability, business goals, and technical constraints when shaping design solutions

• Working closely with product managers and engineers in a fast-moving, iterative product environment

• Ensuring consistency across the platform through shared patterns and design system practices while supporting ongoing product evolution

• Adapting design workflows and methods as new tools and technologies enable faster exploration and validation of solutions

• Developing domain understanding of the advertising ecosystem, including how digital ads are bought, managed, and served across the platform

Hard skills

• Professional proficiency in English and either Swedish or Norwegian is required (written and spoken)

• Experience designing digital products, ideally for web-based platforms or complex systems

• Strong skills in user research using both qualitative and quantitative methods (e.g. interviews, usability testing, surveys, and analytics tools such as Amplitude)

• Solid understanding of interaction design, user flows, and visual design principles

• Ability to translate product requirements and user insights into clear, usable design solutions

• Experience working in cross-functional product teams together with product managers and engineers

• Proficiency with modern design and collaboration tools (e.g. Figma and related tools)

• Knowledge of accessibility principles and how to apply them in product design

Soft skills

• User-centred – Focuses on understanding user needs and improving the overall experience

• Collaborative – Works effectively with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders across the organisation

• Structured – Organises design work clearly and communicates solutions in a structured way

• Curious – Interested in learning from users, data, and new technologies

• Communicative – Able to clearly explain design decisions and gather input from

  others

We value curiosity, drive, and a willingness to learn. Although you may not meet every requirement, this role is best suited to designers with experience working on digital products in cross-functional product teams. If that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.