Junior Product Designer

NatWest Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking a Junior Product Designer to join a cross-functional squad focused on turning real small business problems into simple, well-crafted digital experiences. You will grow your craft through weekly feedback, crits, and an open design culture.

You’ll collaborate with Product and Engineering to understand requirements, iterate outputs, and support strategic initiative delivery, while developing your product design craft and accessibility practice.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years of product design experience (from junior role, internship or similar)
• Portfolio showing how you solve design problems
• Strong visual and interaction design basics: clean UI, clear hierarchy
• Curiosity about user needs; willing to use research, data & feedback to shape designs
• Craft and consistency; tidy, well-structured files and smooth handoff to Engineering
• Ability to explain design decisions clearly; open to feedback and action on it
• Enjoy solving problems; know where to start and when to ask for help

Responsibilities

• Work day to day with Product Owner and Engineers to understand the problem and see it through to release
• Participate in ideation sessions; explore directions collaboratively
• Design iterative, build-ready screens from concepts
• Create intuitive journeys across mobile and web platforms
• Plan and run research sessions with the Research team and translate findings into design changes
• Design within our design system; raise gaps or inconsistencies
• Apply accessibility (WCAG) and inclusive design practices from the start
• Share work early in design and squad meetings and use feedback to improve

Skills

Product design

Portfolio

Visual design

Interaction design

Accessibility WCAG

Research

Feedback

Collaboration

Job description

Join us as a Junior Product Designer

• You’ll be the designer in a cross-functional squad, working with Product and Engineering to turn real problems for small business owners into simple, well-crafted digital experiences.
• You’ll grow your craft through weekly 1:1s, regular crits and a design team that shares work openly.
• This is your chance to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to understand requirements, iterate outputs and support strategic initiative delivery, while growing your product design craft

What you’ll do

Work day to day with your Product Owner and Engineers to understand the problem, pick up design work and see it through to release. Take part in ideation sessions, exploring different directions collaboratively to find the best way forward.

Your work will focus on:

• Working iteratively, moving from early concepts and prototypes to clean build-ready screens.
• Designing intuitive journeys across mobile and web platforms, working through edge cases.
• Helping plan and run research sessions with support from the Research team, then turn what you learn into design changes.
• Designing within our design system, and raise gaps or inconsistencies when you find them.
• Learning and applying accessibility (WCAG) and inclusive design practices from the start.
• Sharing work early in design and squad meetings, and use feedback to improve.

The skills you'll need

As our Junior Product Designer, you'll bring 1 to 2 years of product design experience (from a junior role, internship or similar), with a portfolio showing how you solve design problems.

You’ll also:

• Have good visual and interaction design basics: clean UI, clear hierarchy and attention to detail.
• Come with curiosity about user needs, and a willingness to use research, data and feedback to shape your designs.
• Care for craft and consistency, with tidy, well-structured files and a smooth handoff to Engineering.
• Be able to explain your design decisions clearly, and you're open to feedback and act on it.
• Enjoy getting stuck into problems, working out where to start and asking for help along the way.