Product Designer 10 months - NatWest Group

eFinancialCareers; Manchester; Remote; GBP 58,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

eFinancialCareers is seeking a Product Designer to shape the visual and interaction design across our portfolio. The role is remote-first, with occasional collaboration in the office once a week, enabling close teamwork with designers, product managers and engineers.

You will champion user research, run workshops, and deliver end-to-end design thinking to create customer-focused fintech solutions. A strong portfolio and experience in agile settings are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering customer-facing digital applications and launching digital products.
• Understanding of user research and its impact on design solutions.
• Background in user research.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to combine customer needs with business needs.

Responsibilities

• Push usability and market success of products and drive business objectives.
• Produce journey maps, UX wireframes, hi-fidelity UI and prototypes for stakeholder buy-in.
• Run ideation, brainstorming and critiquing workshops with multiple stakeholders.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams to solve design challenges.

Skills

Customer-focused design

Native mobile design

Agile methodology

Data-driven mindset

Portfolio

User research

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 customers and 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-fidelity UI 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. To be considered for this role, you must submit a portfolio demonstrating your past work and experience alongside your application.

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