Senior Product Designer

Senior Product Designer at Barclays UK

Purpose of the role is to create user-centred and visually appealing designs for digital banking products by conducting user research, design of user interfaces and experiences, collaboration with stakeholders, and continuous improvement.

Key Accountabilities

• Execution of user research and usability tests to understand customer needs, pain points, and integrate feedback and preferences into banking products and services, through collaboration with various stakeholders, including product managers and developers.
• Creation of intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for digital banking platforms and applications for a seamless and engaging user experience.
• Design and maintenance of visually appealing and consistent user interfaces that align with the bank's brand identity and design guidelines across digital products.
• Creation of wireframes and interactive prototypes for visualisation and testing of product concepts and features before development.
• Accessibility considerations to ensure that designs comply with accessibility standards and guidelines to provide an inclusive experience for all users.
• Monitoring of industry trends, design best practices, and emerging technologies to continuously improve the design quality and innovation of banking products.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

As an Assistant Vice President, you will be expected to advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. You will collaborate closely with other functions and business divisions. For an individual contributor, this role involves leading collaborative assignments, guiding team members through structured assignments, identifying the need for other specializations, and proposing new directions for projects by combining cross-functional methodologies.

You will consult on complex issues, provide advice to People Leaders, identify ways to mitigate risk, develop new policies/procedures for control and governance, and take ownership for managing risk. The role requires understanding how various areas coordinate, engaging in complex data analysis from multiple internal and external sources to solve problems creatively, communicating complex information effectively, and influencing stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.

Barclays Values & Mindset

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

What You'll Bring

Join us as a Senior Product Designer to create user-centred and visually appealing designs for digital banking products by conducting user research, design of user interfaces and experiences, collaboration with stakeholders, and continuous improvement.

You will be leading end-to-end designs for both internal and external products and services, collaborating closely with product, engineering, and research teams to deliver exceptional experiences.

To be successful as a Senior Product Designer, you should have experience with:

• End to End design (from Discovery to Delivery)
• Complex problem solving
• Cross functional collaboration

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Prototyping
• Journey mapping
• UX Research

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Key skills/competency

• User-centered Design
• UI/UX Design
• User Research
• Prototyping
• Wireframing
• Accessibility Standards
• Stakeholder Collaboration
• Product Design
• Digital Banking
• End-to-End Design