Senior Designer – Design Systems

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London is building a new digital venture and hiring a Senior Designer – Design Systems within International Consumer Banking.

You will join a flat-structure team focused on getting smart ideas into customers' hands, shipping products, and delivering outcomes in an agile environment. This role sits in the Product Design Team, with a growing contingent in Berlin, and requires collaboration across product design, researchers, technologists, and business experts to uphold

Qualifications

• Hands-on design and design system work in product or service settings.
• Strong portfolio of user-centered design solutions.
• Experience delivering products with impact.
• Knowledge of design systems tools and technologies.
• Experience across digital touchpoints including iOS and Android.
• Familiarity with usability testing and early-stage UX research methods.

Responsibilities

• Drive design system excellence for our banking app and touchpoints.
• Collaborate with product design, researchers, designers, technologists, and business experts.
• Demonstrates ability to support the broader business strategy and deliver design outputs on time.
• Uses insights and data to evolve our design system.
• Champions cross-discipline collaboration and resolves design system issues.
• Manages stakeholders to deliver design system outcomes.
• Maintains, improves and scales the design system.
• Gains practical experience setting up and maintaining tokens.
• Applies accessibility practices and WCAG 2.2 standards.

Skills

Design systems

Design tokens

Accessibility

Cross-functional collaboration

User-centered design

iOS & Android

UX research methods

Education

Bachelor's degree in Design / HCI

Job description

We know that people want great value combined with an excellent experience from a bank they can trust, so we launched our digital bank, Chase UK, to revolutionise mobile banking with seamless journeys that our customers love. We're already trusted by millions in the US, we've established ourselves in the UK and recently launched in Germany – but how we do things here is a little different. We're building the bank of the future from scratch, channelling our start-up mentality every step of the way – meaning you'll have the opportunity to make a real impact.

As a Senior Designer – Design Systems at JPMorgan Chase within the International Consumer Bank, you will be a part of a flat-structure organisation. We are looking for solution-oriented customer-focused individuals, used to working in an agile environment who want to be a part of building something new from the ground up within a diverse and inclusive team. Culture is as important to us and we are looking for intellectually curious, new technology passionate individuals who would like to expand their skills whilst working on a new exciting venture for the firm. Your work will impact us as a company, as well as our customers around the world. This role sits within the Product Design Team, which itself is part of the Design & Customer Experience Team primarily based in London with a growing contingence in Berlin. As a Senior Designer – Design Systems within International Consumer Banking, you will be at the heart of this venture, focused on getting smart ideas into the hands of our customers.

You have a curious mindset, thrive in collaborative squads and are passionate about new technology. You’ve worked in a squad model, designing experiences, shipping products and delivering positive outcomes for businesses and their customers.

Job responsibilities

• Drive design system excellence and uphold quality and consistency in design deliverables for our banking app and other customer touch points
• Collaborate within multi-disciplinary teams—including product design, researchers, designers, technologists, and business experts to support the creation of customer-focused products and services
• Demonstrates an ability to support the broader business strategy, and deliver design system outcomes and outputs efficiently and on time to achieve success
• Uses insights and data to maintain and evolve our design system
• Champions and leads cross-discipline collaboration and actively engages to resolve complex design system and experience issues and deliver business outcomes
• Manage stakeholders, collaborate with disciplines to deliver design system excellence
• Helps to maintain, improve and scale our design system
• In-depth and practical experience setting up and maintaining tokens
• Practical knowledge of accessibility practices and standards (e.g. WCAG 2.2)
• Explores and embraces new or diverse methods and technologies to improve ways of working and the quality of the output

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Proven experience in hands-on design and design system roles, demonstrating high levels of craft and problem-solving in product/service environments
• Strong portfolio showcasing user-centered solutions to business and customer challenges Demonstrates how to translate experiences into systems
• Solution-oriented and experienced in delivering products with impact.
• Practical understanding of current and emerging tools, practices and technologies relevant to design systems
• Experience of system design across digital touchpoints, including native iOS and Android platforms.
• Proficiency in customer centric practices: usability testing, iterative design, and early-stage UX research methods
• Expert knowledge of modern design systems, prototyping software, and design tools

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, or related field, or equivalent professional experience
• Design system experience in Financial Services / Fintech
• Proficiency in usability testing, iterative design, and early-stage UX research methods

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