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We are Technology: a department that has people and product at its heart. We use technology to innovate and lead the global conversation on the future of journalism and storytelling. We proudly are part of TechCharterUK as over 27% of our Tech roles are filled by gender minorities.

Your team: We are The Times: The Times informs, entertains, campaigns and innovates. Our technology team is at the heart of this innovation and helps support a highly creative, multi-channel media operation that has a heritage of modernity, of being first and creating change.

Your role: We’re looking for a Business Analyst to join The Times ‘Growth’ team.

This product team is focused on our non-subscribers, from anonymous traffic hitting us for the first time to repeat or registered users. The team manages the transition from an unknown reader to a known reader. Historically, The Times has always had a hard paywall and you’re either in or you’re out. Our mission is to find the right value exchange for every reader.

Day to day you will:

• Improve our checkout and registration customer journeys

• Experiment with our paywall capability to give readers the right offer at the right time

• Conversion Rate optimization through our acquisition funnel

• Take new proposition ideas and bringing them to life across our product, so that we give our readers added value throughout their Times experience

• Get the basics right - readers can manage their subscription with ease

• Exploring new B2B customer segments

You’ll show passion for technical challenges and the bravery to take risks with bold ideas. We want you to help us build self-organised, highly motivated teams with the curiosity to unravel complex problems and the optimism to take exciting, innovative approaches.

What we’re looking for from you:

• Experience working in a software development environment with Engineering/ Product teams

• Experience working with Jira and working with Product Owners to break their requirements down to be clearly understood by the scrum team.

• Skilled and structured in analysis and requirements elicitation techniques that identify business or customer value

• Experienced in problem solving and able to absorb a range of sometimes conflicting requirements to narrow down potential solutions to provide options and recommendations.

• Experience facilitating conversations outlining potential solutions and prioritising options based on business value or required outcomes

• Contribute towards creating a trusted empowered team that feels comfortable handling challenging conversations around scope, benefits, failure and ways of working

• A great communicator able to influence and communicate at every level, share risks, assumptions and constraints effectively with dev teams and business stakeholders alike

• Deliver in agile/iterative environments with experience of methodologies such as SCRUM, Kanban and Lean. Understanding of iterative product development including MVP, prototyping and lean start-up techniques.

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;

• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;

• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

• Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions

• Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes

• ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme

• Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.