Job Summary

We are seeking a talented and driven UX Designer to join our Corporate Banking Customer Experience (CX) team. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of corporate banking, particularly around Cash and Trade products, or experience working on client-facing projects within financial institutions or fintechs. Proficiency in Figma for prototyping and design is essential, as well as a strong grasp of design systems and design system governance. You should excel in both UX and UI design, with a deep understanding of service design principles.

As a collaborative team player, you will work closely with distributed international teams to create innovative solutions and enhance user experiences. Additionally, you will support ideation sessions and innovation workshops to drive creative thinking and problem-solving. If you're passionate about delivering exceptional digital experiences in the financial sector and thrive in a dynamic, global environment, we'd love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with internal teams to obtain an in-depth understanding of our platform product suite and business priorities
• Produce high-quality UX based on client research and user testing data
• Create high fidelity prototypes using UI components from our component library
• Present these prototypes to senior leaders and be able to communicate clearly about the process and reasoning that went into the design
• Pro-actively engage stakeholders and collaboration partners to understand the products and business context, and to help them get onboard with your design solution proposals
• Familiar with the concepts of design language systems, component libraries, UX and UI best practices, and CX fundamentals. You must be able to structure your time and be capable of taking the initiative. You have exceptional English written and verbal communication skills, as well as a strong sense of empathy for our audience who utilize our products to drive their businesses. You’re also a meticulous note taker with keen attention to detail.
• Responsible for delivering quality product and service design, meant to enable colleagues and clients to perform their work efficiently and effectively.
• Oversee and contribute to areas such as career progression, mentorship, tooling, support, and more. It will be your responsibility to support and participate in these activities when and if the opportunities arise.

Skills and Experience

• Experience driving projects from initiation to delivery, defining the business value gained with the program and utilising this with stakeholders for buy-in.
• At least 5-8 years of experience in producing UX and UI design, including interactive prototypes using Figma
• Experience working at financial institutions, including fintechs, would be desirable
• Working knowledge of enterprise project methodology, and capable of working with IT to manage business and technical requirements for documentation
• Familiarity with Information architecture and interaction design
• Experience in Agile and/or LEAN projects
• Good stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Excellent written skills in English
• Expert level capability in Figma

Qualifications

• Education equivalent to a BS in library/information science, human/computer interaction, web development, computer science, graphic arts/digital design, psychology, business, or other equivalent discipline.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

Recruitment Assessments

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