Senior UI Designer in Swindon

As a Senior UI Designer within our Originations Design team, you'll help create best-in-class digital experiences that differentiate Nationwide and support our digital society aspirations. You'll play a hands-on role in designing the journeys that help people become Nationwide members and access products such as current accounts, savings, loans and credit cards, making complex experiences feel simple, accessible and visually engaging.

You'll take day-to-day responsibility for design activity across all stages of a project, from research, ideation and prototyping through to low and high-fidelity interface design, interaction design, developer hand-off and design specifications. Your work will meet or exceed our quality standards while supporting Nationwide's regulatory and compliance obligations.

You'll work closely with User Experience Designers, Content Designers, Researchers, Engineers, Product teams and stakeholders to translate customer needs, business goals and technical requirements into clear, effective interfaces. You'll contribute to workshops and interviews with members, colleagues and subject matter experts, and confidently present your work to peers and internal audiences.

As a senior member of the team, you'll support the Nationwide Experience Language design system by helping curate and evolve libraries, components, visual guidance and patterns so our brand is represented consistently across digital experiences. You'll champion design excellence, support continuous improvement and may coach or mentor more junior designers.

We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best.

At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.

For this job you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, based at our Swindon office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.

Whilst this location is where we are primarily looking to fill the role, if you’re an internal applicant based in a different location we would welcome your application and if successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this could work for this specific role. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.

Nationwide is committed to the redeployment of our employees impacted by change, as such applications for redeployment candidates will be prioritised in this recruitment process.
If you’re a colleague on long-term absence (for example, on parental leave) or a temporary worker, please use your personal email address to submit an application.

What you’ll be doing

You'll spend your day working alongside designers, researchers, engineers and product teams to design and refine customer journeys that are simple, accessible and visually engaging. You'll turn complex requirements into clear interface designs, test and iterate ideas, and use customer and business insight to inform your decisions. You'll help evolve our design system and ensure a consistent experience across products and channels. As a senior designer, you may also support and coach other designers while helping stakeholders understand the value of great design.

About you

To be successful in this role you'll be able to demonstrate:

• Significant commercial experience in a User Interface Design role, designing digital products and services from concept through to delivery
• Strong expertise in visual design, interaction design and information hierarchy, with a portfolio that demonstrates high-quality digital experiences
• Advanced experience using Figma, including components, design systems and prototyping
• Experience working within multidisciplinary product teams alongside researchers, content designers, engineers and product managers
• Proven experience creating, maintaining and evolving scalable design systems and reusable design patterns
• Strong understanding of accessibility standards and experience designing inclusive digital experiences
• Experience presenting and influencing stakeholders, using evidence and design rationale to support decisions

Our customer first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we work together. They are the set of behaviours that every colleague needs to display, in every role:

• Feel what customers feel - We step into our customers’ shoes, using their feedback and insights to empathise with them and to understand their needs, so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind

• Say it straight - We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think – we’re honest and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions and using language everyone can understand

• Push for better - We don’t settle for mediocrity, we challenge the status quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal development

• Get it done - We prioritise what will have the greatest impact, we are decisive, and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes

You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours resonate with you, and where you may have already demonstrated these.

The extras you’ll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• 25 days holiday, pro rata

• Private medical insurance

• A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for retirement

• Access to an annual performance-related bonus

• Training and development to help you progress your career

• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme

• Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones in the event of your death

• Wellhub – access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness

• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year

Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society

We forge our own path at Nationwide.

As a mutual, we’re owned by our members - those customers who bank, save or have a mortgage with us. We challenge the financial sector status quo. We don’t see customers as the engine of our own profit. We share our profits with them and put their needs first. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their lives.

If you’re inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about our customers, you’re one of us.

At Nationwide, you are challenged to grow and rewarded for doing so. Valued. Recognised. Inspired to be your best. As a community, we want our working lives to count. As a team, we celebrate what we achieve. As a standard-setter, we work for the good of customers, communities, and broader society.

We are purpose-driven. Uncompromisingly customer. Unstoppably Nationwide.

What to do next

If this role is for you, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button. You’ll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.

We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.

The hiring manager for this role is Max Robinson, and the main recruitment contact is Nathan Richens.

Please note that should you be successful in securing this role, the job title on our internal systems will be Senior Designer.