Barclays UK Jobs – UX Designer

About the job

UX Designer

As a Barclays UX Designer, you will work collaboratively within a cross-functional team (UX designers, UX researchers, UI designers, UX copywriters, product owners, solution architects, BAs and developers). You’ll help craft first-class online interfaces for our customers across our digital products and channels. Working with multiple stakeholders from various backgrounds, you’ll guide them through an approach to create design concepts at various stages in the design process.

Barclays is one of the world’s largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances

Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Leading and creating user interface and visual designs and interactions, for a variety of devices and products including screen designs, prototypes, customer journey maps
• Creating all visual elements, including interactive states, and work with and evolve existing design systems
• Working as part of a team to understand customer needs, business objectives and outcomes, and contributing to the proposition and wider user experience
• Consistently push for a customer-centric approach whilst delivering on business objectives
• Identify and implement process improvements within the team
• Ensuring all outputs adhere to all relevant policies and standards e.g., channel, accessibility, brand, design systems
• Keeping up-to-date and sharing knowledge on industry best practices, the latest thinking and trends in order to deliver fresh, relevant and industry leading designs

What We’re Looking For

• Knowledge, understanding and hands-on experience of responsive and/or app UI design and interactions, through to creating detailed specifications
• Collaboratively working with developers
• Experience of using, and creating or contributing to, design systems
• Presentation skills and a good communicator who can articulate their thinking and the rationale behind design decisions to different audiences

Skills That Will Help You In The Role

• Professional qualification, or equivalent experience in a related field and demonstrable experience designing for web and mobile
• Knowledge of visual-based design principles and have a strong understanding and skill with color, typography, layout, illustration and data visualisation, combined with an eye for detail
• Understanding the customer experience, translating this understanding into impactful and appropriate visual designs
• Proficient with tools such as Figma or Sketch, Adobe CC, Adobe XD, to effectively deliver high quality design solutions

Where will you be working?

Northampton was the birthplace of Barclaycard in 1966 and we’ve been based in Pavilion Drive since the building opened in 1997. We purchased the building from the landlord in early 2018 as a sign of our commitment to investment in Northampton. Plans to further develop this Campus-style location are under way to allow for a real collaborative work environment. Based just off the A45 it is easily accessible by both car and bus routes.

Working Flexibly

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.