Senior UX/UI Designer (temporary)

Nordea; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Diversity and inclusion

Growth opportunities

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Nordea Bank Norge ASA is seeking a Senior UX Designer for a 9-month maternity leave cover starting December 2026. The role sits within Team Testdreiv, the Design Language and Design System team that supports Nordea's digital products across Helsinki, Copenhagen and Gdynia.

You will lead design system stewardship, advocate for a unified design language, and collaborate with developers to translate tokens into scalable components while shaping end-to-end design across complex workflows, including

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading UX/UI design initiatives.
• Experience building and scaling design systems.
• Strong collaboration with developers to translate tokens into code.

Responsibilities

• Design System Stewardship: maintain, update, and scale the design system across products.
• Community Liaison: bridge design and development to streamline integration.
• Design Advocacy: champion design language and best practices.
• End-to-End Design: deliver high-quality interaction, UX, and visual design for complex workflows.
• AI Tool Integration: leverage AI tools to optimize workflows.

Skills

Senior UX design

Design systems

Interaction design

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Tools

Figma

Design tokens

Component library

Job description

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We are looking for a Senior UX Designer with an exceptional understanding of visual and interaction design and experience building, evolving and scaling design systems. This is a temporary 9‑month position starting in December 2026, covering a team member's maternity leave.

About our team

Meet Team Testdreiv. We bridge the gap between design and technology so that our teams can work faster and build smoother, more accessible digital services for Nordea's customers.

Team Testdreiv is the Design Language and Design System team, part of the Group Digital organisation. Our main purpose is to maintain and grow Nordea's official design system, ensuring every digital products look consistent and works perfectly for all our customers. We are a collaborative team of 10 across Helsinki, Copenhagen and Gydnia and are a part of the Customer Experience and Design community.

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.

Main responsibilities in this role:

• Design System Stewardship: Maintain, update, and scale our comprehensive design system to ensure consistency across our product ecosystem.
• Community Liaison: Act as the primary bridge between the design and development communities to streamline integration.
• Design Advocacy: Champion our design language and best practices across the organization.
• End-to-End Design: Execute high-quality interaction, UX, and visual design solutions for complex workflows.
• AI Tool Integration: Leverage and implement AI tools within the design process to optimize workflows.

Who you are

This is the right role for you if you love connecting people just as much as you love connecting pixels. You are a natural collaborator who genuinely enjoys mentoring others, building communities, and bridging the gap between design and engineering. You are naturally curious, enthusiastic about the future of AI in design, and passionate about creating order out of chaos through scalable systems. If you want to be the go-to champion for a unified design language and thrive in an environment where your communication skills matter just as much as your craft, you will love this role.

Your background and skills include:

• Senior-level experience: Proven track record leading UX/UI design initiatives and managing comprehensive design systems.
• Core design craft: Strong expertise across interaction design, information architecture, and high-fidelity visual design.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Demonstrated success partner-shipping with developers to translate design tokens and components into code.
• Tool proficiency: Advanced, daily working knowledge of modern design tools (like Figma) and component library management.

It would be ideal if you also:

• AI workflows: Have hands-on experience using AI design assistants or automation tools to speed up prototyping.
• Front-end knowledge: Understand basic HTML, CSS, native mobile frameworks to better speak the language of engineering.
• Community building: Have experience running inner-source design communities, workshops.

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.
• 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.

Submit your application no later than 27/10/2026.

A security clearance will be performed for the person selected for this position.