Product Designer (10 months)

NatWest Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first role

Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking a Product Designer to lead design across a portfolio, applying end-to-end design thinking in a fast-paced Fintech context. The role emphasises remote-first collaboration with weekly office touchpoints to align with teammates and stakeholders.

You’ll champion design thinking, run workshops, craft reports, and work with engineering, product, and business teams to translate user needs into high-quality digital experiences. This is a 10-month contract in the UK.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering customer-focused designs, including native mobile design.
• Ability to work in an agile, fast-paced and data-driven environment.
• Experience developing customer-facing digital applications and launching digital products.
• Understanding of user research and its impact on design solutions.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Push usability and market success of our new and current products.
• Produce journey maps, UX wireframes, hi-fidelity UI and prototypes to communicate design ideas to obtain stakeholder buy-in.
• Run and manage ideation, brainstorming and critiquing workshops with multiple stakeholders.
• Work closely with engineering, product, and business teams to find solutions to design challenges that appeal to customers.

Skills

Product design

UX research

Agile experience

Facilitation

Job description

Join us as a Product Designer

• You’ll be responsible for product design across a portfolio, providing a strategic approach with end-to-end design thinking
• You’ll be operating in a fast-paced environment,working end-to-end to understand user needs and deliver cutting edge design
• In this role you’ll have the opportunity to work within cross functional design teams to deliver best in class solutions for our digital projects
• This is a remote-first role, so you’ll spend most of your time at home, working with your team digitally and cominginto the office once a week when you need to collaborate closely with your colleagues
• We’re offering this role for a period of 10 months

What you’ll do

As a Product Designer, you'll champion design thinking methodologies to drive your projects forward,including new ways of working, new user research techniques and new products within the Fintech innovation space. Your work will bring high quality designs to meet the needs of our customersand the business.

Throughout the course of your work, you’ll collaborate with others to develop and meet the standards through peer reviews and knowledge sharing. You’ll also be managing and leading workshops and crafting reports, as well as contributing to playback sessions with multiple stakeholders.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Pushing the usability and market success of our new and current products, enabling us to fulfil our business objectives
• Producing journey maps, UX wireframes, hi-fidelityUI and prototypes to effectively communicate design ideas to obtain stakeholder buy-in
• Running and managing ideation, brainstorming and critiquing workshops with multiple stakeholders
• Working closely with engineering, product, and business teams to find solutions to design challenges that appeal to customers

The skills you’ll need

We’re looking for someone with experience of delivering customer focused designs and ideally including native mobile design. You’ll also bring the ability to work well in an agile, fast paced and data driven environment.

We’ll also expect you to have:

• Experience of developing customer facing digital applications and products and in launching customer focused digital products
• An understanding of user research and the benefits that these insights have on design solutions
• A background in user research
• Good written and verbal communication skills

Experience of creating solutions that combine the needs of the customer with the needs of the business