Overview

JOB TITLE: UX Designer (12-Month FTC)

LOCATION(S): London

SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810

HOURS: Full-Time

DURATION: 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, with at least two days per week, or 40% of time in the London office

Responsibilities

• Craft the end-to-end user experience, bringing together a cohesive journey step by step, creatively using components from a central design system to balance content and UI elements on screen.
• Bring designs to life predominantly using Figma and other prototyping/design tools such as Axure and Adobe Creative Cloud.
• Balance business requirements with user needs by gathering user research and rationale to align stakeholders on individual user needs; diplomatically push back when necessary to act in the customer’s best interest.
• Be adaptable to the technical constraints of different platforms while providing guidance on creating the best possible end-user experience.
• Advocate customer inclusion by delivering inclusive and accessible designs usable by customers of diverse ages, backgrounds and technical abilities.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with working in a complex landscape; ideally experience in agile ways of working across multiple teams.
• Demonstrable experience in User Experience design/Interaction Design.
• Strong experience as an Interaction Designer or UX Designer (or from a joint UX/Visual Design background).
• Full ownership of the Interaction Design project.
• Excellent prototyping and layout skills, with ability to articulate designs to internal customers and development teams.
• Comfortable using existing design systems and proactively recommending improvements to benefit the project and other designers.
• Ability to interpret quantitative and qualitative research and apply insights to the interaction design process; access to dedicated user research insights.
• Experience in financial services is preferred.
• Collaborative mindset to work closely with a multi-disciplinary team.
• Strong ability to see designs through to delivery and communicate with developers to ensure designs meet specifications for a broad range of users.
• Strong advocacy of customer inclusivity and accessibility.

About working for us

Our focus is to be inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to belong and perform at their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We are committed to diversity in senior roles and offer a menopause health package and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. We especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We are disability confident. If you need reasonable adjustments to recruitment processes, please let us know.

Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• Share schemes including free shares
• Discounted shopping and lifestyle benefits
• 30 days of holiday, with bank holidays on top
• Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of joining our team, we’d love to hear from you!