Senior UX Designer

Join us as a “Senior UX Designer" at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with, UX designing skills as well as job-specific skillsets.

To be successful as a “Senior UX Designer", you should have experience with:

Basic/ Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in design, HCI, Computer science or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong and mandatory experience in Design portfolio.
• Experience in user experience design for digital products, preferably in financial or complex enterprise systems.
• Strong understanding of user cantered design principles and design thinking methodologies.
• Experience creating personas, user journeys.
• Hands on experience in creating user flows, mockups, interactive prototypes for web & mobile applications.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills – ability to convey complex ideas to technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with developers to ensure design fidelity and implementation accuracy.
• Experience conducting usability testing and iterating designs based on feedback.
• Ability to manage multiple projects in fast paced, agile environment.
• Experience working in cross functional teams with product owners, BA, project leaders and QA.
• Proficiency & Hands on experience in Figma, Sketch, Adobe creative suit, Zeplin or similar. (wireframing, prototyping and visual design using tools).
• Familiarity with basic HTML,CSS.

Desirable skillsets/ good to have:

• Exposure to financial applications.
• Understanding of accessibility standards and inclusive design
• Experience with Adobe creative suit, Zeplin or similar
• Prior working experience with global teams
• Knowledge of agile methodologies and ability to integrate design into agile cycles.
• Exposure to UX writing and ability to write clear design specifications and documentation

This role will be based out of Pune.

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.