Visual Designer (12-Month FTC)

Location: Edinburgh

Hours: 35 Hours, Full Time

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• We’re looking for a passionate Visual Designer to raise the quality bar and bring our digital experiences to life for our customers.
• You’ll do this by owning and delivering the visual design of our Digital Cards and Wallets experiences, whilst engaging with customers through rich storytelling.
• You’ll join our Experience Design team of interaction designers, researchers, content writers and strategists.
• Working effectively and confidently as part of agile teams to help uncover priorities, visualise outcomes, and define scope.
• You’ll help identify and solve real customer problems and ensure that we put human’s needs at the heart of every problem we solve.
• Bring visual direction and support us in raising the quality of the mobile application to bring delight and joy into our experiences.
• Apply your creative thinking to solve complex problems and make them seem simple.
• Design production assets, infographics, logos and other elements.
• Create engaging digital experiences, design interfaces for web and mobile applications.
• Design and layout pages and User Interfaces, skilfully and creatively using components from a central design system to figure out the right balance of content and UI elements on screen.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Minimum 7-10 years experience as a Visual Designer, used to driving the delivery and raising the visual design quality bar for a product.
• Experience of prototyping software (Figma is our main tool, experience is required) as well as Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft tools like Powerpoint, Excel, Acrobat.
• Experience in solving visual design challenges and delivering experience‑led brand digital journeys.
• Understand and contribute with existing digital Design System and be an advocate of accessibility standards.

Additional Experience (Nice to Have):

• Ambitions to work collaboratively with – and learn from - a full‑stack design team, including Researchers, Content Designers, Service Designers and Interaction Designers.
• 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.

Benefits:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An 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.

Diversity & Inclusion:

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. Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.