UX Designer | S3 | Digital Transformation | Milton Keynes

Overview

Country: United Kingdom

Join our community. As our UX Designer you’ll be working within a fast-paced environment responsible for the end-to-end user-centred design process, for projects across our Retail and Business Banking Digital platforms. This role will also focus on future looking projects, new features, and mobile app developments.

As the User Experience Designer, you will provide support within your team, research and analysis, support ideation, prototyping, stakeholder engagement, validation with end-users to facilitate a process of iterative design / continuous improvement as you build out the user journey.

The difference you’ll make

• Working directly with business stakeholders and product owners to fully understand requirements, utilising appropriate UX research methods to ensure solutions are validated with users.
• Engaging the internal design community, utilising, and contributing towards the banks UI design standards.
• Designing wireframes, prototypes, and design assets.
• Supporting the team, in an Agile environment, in the creation of user stories and acceptance criteria to ensure effective QA of design assets and deliverables.
• Facilitating team workshops and ideation sessions.

What You’ll Bring

• Practical knowledge of design tools. We use Figma, but understand if you’ve been using Sketch, Zeplin, or similar.
• Commercial UX experience using formal UX processes.

It would also be nice for you to have

• Accessibility experience (WCAG 2.1)
• Front end knowledge of HTML and CSS.
• Excellent communicator, able to influence team members, stakeholders, and the wider business.
• Portfolio with commercial examples to share (if unable to share, provide a walkthrough of relevant examples).

What Else You Need To Know

This is a 18 month Fixed Term position.

This role is based in Milton Keynes.

We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).

If you apply for this role in (this /any of these) locations, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location(s).

We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.

If you’re interested in this role but with part time hours or a job-share we would still love to hear from you and discuss these.

Inclusion

At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.

How We’ll Reward You

As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus.
• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.
• £6,000 car allowance per year.
• Company funded individual private medical insurance.
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, and health assessments.
• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.
• Share in Santander’s success by saving or investing in our share plans.
• As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services

Right to work in the UK

Every individual must have the right to work in the UK to commence employment with Santander either by way of nationality, visa or work permit. If you do require a working visa / permit this will not influence our decision on whether to progress your application. However, if you do not have a right to work, or an application for a working visa / permit is unsuccessful, Santander will not proceed with your application and will withdraw any conditional offer previously made.

What to do next

If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through email. You can contact us at resourcing@santander.co.uk.

Additional Information

We welcome applications on the understanding that, should you be offered this role, there may be no relocation package available. Santander will pay the employer mandatory government fees that are required to pay in connection with visa sponsorship. You may be liable for your own personal employee immigration and relocation costs.