Product Designer - AVP

Job Title: Senior Product Designer

Location: London (Hybrid, 2 days in office)

Contract: 6 months

Hours: 35 hours per week

Contract Type: Full-time Monday-Friday

Brief overview of the role:

As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll be working as part of a cross-functional team of designers, researchers, engineers, and product managers to shape and deliver digital experiences that are elegant, intuitive, and innovative. You will work closely with your Design Principal and executive stakeholders to deliver product value against clear strategic objectives with measurable business and customer outcomes. You will be part of a large, national design team made-up of Service and Product Design that are passionate about Human-centred design, Journey centricity, innovation in technology and design excellence, with a belief that Design can become a market differentiator for Barclays digital banking. This is an exciting opportunity to work on a variety of projects that have real impact, helping customers to better understand money and delivering on our Brand promise of ‘Make Money Work for You’. A key part of this role will include the Barclays x Tesco Bank integration where you will be looking at how we can seamlessly migrate Tesco Bank customers onto our digital platforms, maintaining CX excellence and looking ahead to creating future innovative experiences for Tesco Bank and Barclays customers.

Essential

• Experience with Figma Design tool

• Experience working with agile delivery in cross-discipline feature teams.

• Clear evidence of designing for multiple across technology channels and devices, keeping up with the pace of digital advancement

• Clear evidence of working closely with Insight and Research specialists

• Great understanding of how Brand, Marketing and Design work together to drive creative excellence.

• Experience working with Design Systems and component libraries.

Desirable 

• Experience working closely with a Marketing team.

• Portfolio examples of Design work within financial services

• Experience in non-standard interface design (such as chat or voice)

• Any experience with coding in Figma

About Barclays

Barclays is a British universal bank. It is diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Barclays businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full-service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by its service company which provides technology, operations, and functional services across the Group.

Values

Everything Barclays does is shaped by its five values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship. The Barclays values inform the foundations of its relationships with customers and clients, but they also shape how Barclays measures and rewards the performance of colleagues. Simply put, success is not just about what you achieve, but about how you achieve it.

Diversity

Barclays aims to foster a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel confident in bringing their whole selves to work, feel included, and their talents are nurtured, empowering them to contribute fully to Barclays’ vision and goals.

Hybrid

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

Your Benefits

As a contract employee of Randstad Sourceright, you’ll receive a wide range of financial and personal benefits. There’s enrolment in a pension plan (after 12 weeks on assignment) and holiday pay. You’ll also get 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme, designed to help you deal with any problems that could be affecting your home or work life. Plus, there are discounts at a wide range of high street shops, restaurants, and entertainment venues — from Asda to Zizzi Italian restaurants.