UX Designer

Join us at Barclays as a UX Designer, where you'll create best‑in‑class user experiences that are aligned with customer needs and deliver strong commercial and customer outcomes. You'll design intuitive products and seamless journeys that meet customers' informational, functional, and emotional needs, ensuring every interaction is meaningful, engaging, and effective.

To be successful as a UX Designer, you must have the following essential skills:

• End‑to‑End Product & Service Design: Proven ability to lead discovery, define user journeys, create interaction designs, and deliver validated solutions across complex digital products. Experience applying human‑centred design methodologies from research through to implementation.
• Stakeholder Management & Influence: Ability to engage and influence senior business, product, technology, risk, and operations stakeholders. Skilled at translating customer needs into business outcomes and building alignment across cross‑functional teams.
• Data‑Driven UX & Evidence‑Based Decision Making: Strong experience using customer research, analytics, usability testing, and behavioural insights to identify opportunities and measure design impact. Ability to articulate UX value through KPIs and business metrics.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Design System & Accessibility Expertise: Experience contributing to or governing enterprise design systems. Strong understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2) and inclusive design practices.
• Financial Services / Digital Banking Experience: Knowledge of banking, payments, commercial banking, treasury, or regulated digital environments. Understanding of security, compliance, and risk considerations in customer‑facing experiences.
• Leadership & Mentoring: Experience coaching designers, driving design quality, and fostering a strong design culture. Ability to lead design initiatives and influence organisational UX maturity without direct line‑management responsibility.

This role is based in Manchester.

Purpose of the role: To create best in class user experiences that are aligned to customer needs and drive optimal commercial and customer outcomes. Creating products and journeys that meet customers' informational, functional, and emotional needs.

Accountabilities:

• Conceptualisation, design and implementation of user‑centric digital banking products and experiences, ensuring alignment with customer needs, industry best practices and business objectives.
• Monitoring impact of design post launch through relevant CX metrics.
• Collaboration with cross‑functional teams including product managers, developers, business analysts to translate business requirements into compelling user experiences.
• Efficiently communicate design rationale and advocate for user‑centred design principles.
• Advocate and champion Design Principles within the organisation.
• Development of interactive prototypes and wireframes to visualise design concepts and validate solutions.
• Iterate designs based on feedback, incorporating changing technical and business requirements and user feedback.
• Evaluation of the technical feasibility, legal compliance, and potential risks associated with the development and launch of the new product.
• Securing governance oversight and providing design assurance.
• User research, usability testing and data analysis to gather insights in user behaviour, preferences and pain points.
• Utilise findings to inform design decisions and enhance the overall user experience and translate these into commercial and customer outcomes.
• Stay abreast of emerging trends, technologies and design tools within the fintech and banking industry.
• Proactively identify opportunities for innovation and improvement in product design processes, tools and methodologies.

Assistant Vice President Expectations:

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
• Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
• Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• For an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identifying the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
• They will identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub‑function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc) to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.