UX Designer - Credit Cards (12 Month FTC) in Chester

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About this opportunity:

We’re looking for an experienced User Experience Designer to join our Credit Cards design team in Chester or Manchester. This is a unique opportunity to define and enhance the journeys in which we engage and build relationships with our business customers, while supporting them with the right products, tools and services to meet their needs. We’re looking for someone who can work collaboratively alongside a full design team and take full ownership of their design output. They will be confident when presenting their work to customers, and able to adapt designs to reflect their feedback and feedback from user research and usability testing.

As a UX Designer it’ll be your role to:

• Skilfully craft the end-to-end user experience, bringing together a cohesive journey step by step, creatively using components from a central design system to figure out the right balance of content and UI (User Interface) elements on screen.
• Bring designs to life with a choice of prototyping software, such as Sketch / InVision / Figma / Axure / Adobe XD.
• Balance business requirements with user needs – you'll be gathering user research and rationale to align partners on individual user needs. You’ll know when to diplomatically push back, if necessary, to act on what’s right for the customer.
• Be adaptable to the technical constraints of different platforms yet still be able to give guidance on creating the best possible end user experience.
• Advocate customer inclusion – what it means to make an inclusive and accessible design to be used by customers of a wide range of ages, backgrounds and technical abilities.

Why join us?

We’re transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.

We’re looking for someone with:

• Minimum 5 years experience within User Experience design/Interaction Design.
• Strong experience as an Interaction Designer, UX Designer (or possibly from a Visual Design background).
• Full ownership of the Interaction Design project.
• Excellent prototyping and layout skills which they can articulate clearly to internal customers and development teams.
• Comfortable using existing design systems, proactively recommending new ways to improve and extend them to benefit both the project and other designers.
• Ability to interpret quantitative and qualitative research, and how this informs the interaction design process. We have dedicated user research teams supporting designers on real data, providing a great wealth of customer insights.
• Familiarity working in a complex landscape – ideally, you’ll have experience in financial services.
• A collaborative attitude to work closely and quickly with a multi-disciplinary team.
• Strong ability to see designs through to delivery – communicating with developers to ensure designs meet specifications and can be used by a broad range of users of all backgrounds, ages and abilities.
• Strong advocacy of customer inclusivity and accessibility.

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

About working for us:

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• Discretionary annual performance-related bonus.
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.