Senior Product Designer 12 months - NatWest Group - #2166725

Join us as a Senior Product Designer

• We're a proud B-Corp business with an unwavering focus on doing well by doing good, and by choosing to work at Coutts, you're choosing to use your skills to improve lives, create opportunities, and bring people together
• You'll be responsible for product design across a portfolio, providing a strategic approach with end-to-end design thinking
• You'll be operating in a fast-paced environment, working end-to-end to understand user needs and deliver cutting edge design
• It's a leading role, where you'll have the opportunity to work within cross functional design teams to deliver best in class solutions for our digital projects
• As part of your application you're required to submit a portfolio showcasing samples of your product design work, highlighting the end-to-end product design process
• This role will be available for a period of twelve months

What you'll do

As a Senior Product Designer, you'll lead the design thinking in your projects, including new ways of working, new user research techniques and new products within the Fintech innovation space. Your work will bring high quality designs to meet the needs of our customers and the business.

Throughout the course of your work, you'll collaborate with others to develop and meet the standards through peer reviews and knowledge sharing. You'll also be managing and leading workshops and craft reports, as well as contributing to playback sessions with multiple stakeholders.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Pushing the usability and market success of our new and current products, enabling us to fulfil our business objectives
• Producing journey maps, UX wireframes, hi-fidelity UI and prototypes to effectively communicate design ideas to obtain stakeholder buy-in
• Running and managing ideation, brainstorming and critic workshops with multiple stakeholders
• Working closely with engineering, product, and business teams to find solutions to design challenges that appeal to customers

The skills you'll need

We're looking for someone with experience of delivering customer focused designs and ideally including native mobile design. You'll also bring the ability to work well in an agile, fast paced and data driven environment.

You'll also demonstrate an appreciation of design being a collaborative discipline, with a desire to thoughtfully critique work and provide regular feedback to your team. We'll expect you to bring a portfolio showcasing beautiful and impactful work.

We'll also expect you to have:

• An expert understanding of UX theory and methods
• Knowledge of design patterns and standards across Android, iOS and Web
• A practical understanding of visual design principles including hierarchy, layout, spacing, typography and colour
• Experience leading design projects, influencing stakeholders to drive the right experience outcomes
• A solid understanding of using and contributing to a design system
• Expert level knowledge of Figma and other design tools such as UserZoom, ProtoPie, Lottie and similar