Senior Product Designer

Join us as a Senior Product Designer at Barclays where you will take ownership of projects from initial discovery through to final delivery, applying the full end-to-end design process. In this role you will be focusing on understanding customer needs through research and data, and turning those insights into accessible, scalable design solutions that meet both user and business goals. It involves close collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver consistent, high-quality experiences. Key responsibilities include rapid prototyping, user testing, and partnering with engineers to ensure precise implementation. The role also contributes to design systems and supports a culture of design excellence and innovation. You will be a key player in shaping intuitive, elegant, and impactful experiences that serve millions of our customers across the UK.

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

• Previous experience in a product design role, with the ability to design digital products and services end-to-end.

• Experienced in facilitating and leading workshops and design sprints.

• Proficiency in Figma, Sketch, Adobe CC, or similar for both design and prototyping.

• Stakeholder management skills, with the ability to use clear storytelling to provide recommendations, influence decision-making, and build effective relationships.

• Ability to interpret and work with customer and commercial data.

• Experience working in an agile environment, within multi-disciplinary teams.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Line management experience including leading, supporting, and developing team members.

• Familiarity with quality testing practices.

• Experience in using AI (artifical intelligence) tools and commands.

• Experience with UX-testing (user experience testing) platforms such as UserZoom or UserTesting.

• Experience in using agile project tools such as Jira and Confluence.

You may be assessed on the 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.

This role will be based in Manchester, London, Knutsford or Northampton.

Purpose of the role

To create best in class user experiences that are aligned to customer needs and drive optimal commercial and customer outcomes. Creating products and journeys that meet customers informational, functional and emotional needs.  

Accountabilities

• Conceptualisation, design and implementation of user-centric digital banking products and experiences, ensuring alignment with customer needs, industry best practices and business objectives. Monitoring impact of design post launch through relevant CX metrics.   .
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams including product managers, developers, business analysts to translate business requirements into compelling user experiences. Efficiently communicate design rationale and advocate for user-centred design principles. Advocate and champion Design Principles within the organisation.   .
• Development of interactive prototypes and wireframes to visualise design concepts and validate solutions. Iterate designs based on feedback, incorporating changing technical and business requirements and user feedback.   .
• Evaluation of the technical feasibility, legal compliance, and potential risks associated with the development and launch of the new product. Securing governance oversite and providing design assurance.
• User research, usability testing and data analysis to gather insights in user behaviour, preferences and pain points. Utilise findings to inform design decisions and enhance the over user experience and translate these into commercial and customer outcomes.
• Stay abreast of emerging trends, technologies and design tools within the fintech and banking industry. Proactively identify opportunities for innovation and improvement in product design processes, tools and methodologies.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

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