Job Summary

About SC Ventures

SC Ventures is Standard Chartered’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm. We were established

to reinvent banking, as the significant technological disruptions to the industry was impacting its ability to

serve clients and customers, in the ways they needed to be served.

We are a unique ecosystem of innovators, banking experts, business builders and partners who are focused

on rewiring the DNA in banking and bringing breakthrough ideas to scale, together.

We are building ecosystems around four high conviction themes: Online Economy & Lifestyle, SMEs & World

Trade, Digital Assets, and Sustainability & Inclusion.

We are a global team of "Members" (excluding individual ventures), including dedicated colleagues from the

Group's support functions, based in Singapore, Hong Kong, London, and the United Arab Emirates

Key Responsibilities

Key Accountabilities

1. UX/UI & Product Design Leadership

· Own end-to-end experience design for digital products and platforms across the venture lifecycle

(discovery to scale)

· Translate customer needs, business strategy, and technical constraints into intuitive, usable, and

scalable design solutions

· Define and maintain design standards, interaction patterns, and design systems across ventures where

appropriate

· Ensure accessibility, usability, and consistency across web, mobile, and platform experiences

· Act as a design authority, providing expert critique and guidance to improve design quality and

coherence

2. Innovation & Human-Centred Design Execution

· Lead design-led discovery and innovation activities including user research, journey mapping, service

design, and problem framing

· Apply methodologies such as Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Jobs-to-Be-Done, and rapid

experimentation to validate concepts

· Support venture incubation by shaping value propositions, MVP definitions, and experimentation

roadmaps

· Facilitate and contribute to design sprints, ideation sessions, and co-creation workshops with internal and external stakeholders

3. Strategic Partnership & Stakeholder Influence

· Act as a trusted design partner to venture CEOs, senior product managers, and SC Ventures leadership

· Influence strategic product and venture decisions through insight, evidence, and design rationale

· Balance customer needs, commercial objectives, regulatory considerations, and delivery constraints · Represent SC Ventures’ design capability with ecosystem partners, startups, and vendors as required

4. Delivery & Outcomes

· Personally deliver high-quality design artefacts including wireframes, prototypes, UI designs, and interaction specifications

· Partner closely with engineering and delivery teams to ensure faithful and efficient implementation · Operate effectively across multiple ventures simultaneously, prioritising work based on strategic impact

· Drive measurable improvements in usability, engagement, conversion, and time-to-market

Skills and Experience

Qualifications

• 10–15+ years’ experience across facilitation, product design, product commercialisation, innovation design, UX/UI and/or consulting
• Proven track record designing complex, customer-facing digital products at scale
• Strong expertise in UX research, interaction design, visual design, and prototyping (e.g. Figma)
• Experience operating at Director-level influence without formal people management
• Strong understanding of agile product development and cross-functional delivery models
• Ability to clearly articulate design decisions to senior, non-design stakeholders

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.