Senior Product Designer, Nordea Life

Nordea; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Nordea Bank Norge ASA in Helsinki seeks a Senior Product Designer to shape digital banking experiences. The role is full-time with a hybrid work model, partnering with business and technology to design intuitive interfaces and complex workflows.

You will lead problem framing, conduct user research, and facilitate co-design workshops, translating insights into customer-centered solutions across platforms. A strong design portfolio and English proficiency are required.

Qualifications

• At least five years of professional experience in product design or UX design.
• Strong user-research capabilities and data-driven insights.
• Proficiency in UX/UI design, prototyping with Figma or Sketch, design systems and accessibility.
• Co-design, workshop facilitation and design-thinking skills.
• Professional-level written and spoken English; relevant degree.

Responsibilities

• Lead problem framing and turn complex challenges into design opportunities.
• Plan and conduct user research and translate insights into solutions.
• Facilitate co-design workshops with business and tech stakeholders.
• Design complex digital workflows aligned with platform information architecture and design systems.
• Mentor junior designers and ensure smooth software delivery handover.

Skills

User research

UX design

UI design

Prototyping tools

Co-design facilitation

Communication

Education

BSc in Human-Computer Interaction

BSc in Design

BSc in Computer Science

MSc in related field

Tools

Figma

Sketch

Job description

Are you passionate about shaping the future of digital banking experiences? We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to discover opportunities for advanced banking and insurance services and design digital interfaces that make those services as easy as possible for our customers. You will act as a partner to business and technology stakeholders, using design-centered methods to solve complex challenges. This is a full-time and permanent position.

About our team

Meet our design team. Our role is to create intuitive, customer-centered digital experiences across platforms and communication channels.

You will lead problem-framing efforts, facilitate design-thinking activities, conduct user research, and design complex digital workflows and graphical user interfaces that fit within an existing platform information architecture. We embrace co-design, user research and continuous innovation, and we support one another by sharing knowledge and growing together.

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions - and that we imagine you share with us.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead problem framing and turn complex challenges into clear, well-defined design opportunities.
• Plan and conduct user research, analyze findings, and translate insights into customer-centred solutions.
• Facilitate co-design workshops and design-thinking activities with business and technology stakeholders.
• Design complex digital workflows and graphical user interfaces aligned with the existing platform information architecture, design systems, accessibility and inclusive design principles.
• Ensure high design quality and a smooth handover of design documentation and rationale, while mentoring junior designers and supporting stable software delivery.

Who you are

This is the right role for you if you are collaborative, take ownership of design quality, are passionate about solving complex design challenges, and have the courage to challenge the status quo. You communicate clearly, work effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders, and bring a structured and persistent approach to problem solving.

Your background and skills include:

• At least five years of professional experience in product design, UX design or a related role.
• Strong user-research capabilities, including selecting appropriate methods, conducting research and analyzing research data.
• Professional proficiency in UX and UI design, prototyping tools such as Figma or Sketch, design systems, accessibility and inclusive design.
• Strong co-design, workshop facilitation and design-thinking capabilities.
• Professional-level written and spoken English, with a BSc in Human-Computer Interaction, Design, Computer Science or a related field.

It would be ideal if you also:

• Have experience mentoring junior designers and guiding teams through complex design challenges.
• Hold an MSc in Human-Computer Interaction, Design, Computer Science or a related field.

What we offer

People come here when they want to get somewhere. For some, it’s to take their career to the next level. For others, it’s to break new ground within their area of expertise - in other words, with us, you will always move forward.

A culture that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.

Hybrid working model - we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.

Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do - when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges.

We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy.

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us.

Department: Business development / Product and Service develop