Senior UX Designer

3761 Barclays - BX - UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Senior UX Designer in Markets - Post Trade to drive end-to-end UX across the application portfolio. You will tackle complex interaction challenges with ingenuity, emphasising user research, journey mapping, and end-to-end and visual design.

This is an exciting time to join a greenfield program and help define a central User Experience function within Markets. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders to deliver exceptional experiences.

Qualifications

• Senior UX Designer in Markets - Post Trade role with end-to-end experience across the application portfolio.
• Skills include visual/product design, interaction design, journey mapping and information architecture.
• Familiarity with Figma for interactive prototyping.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end UX design across the Markets - Post Trade portfolio.
• Create interactive prototypes, journey maps, and IA to improve user experience.

Skills

Visual design

Product design

Interaction design

Journey mapping

Information architecture

Tools

Figma

Job description

Job Description Purpose of the role

To manage product development UX and set the strategic direction. Provide support to the bank's senior management team, and to manage product development risk across the organisation.

Accountabilities

• Development of strategic direction for product development UX, including the implementation of up to date methodologies and processes.
• Management of product development UX initiatives, including oversight of colleagues and their performance, implementation of departmental goals and objectives, oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness.
• Relationship management of product development UX stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders, and maintenance of the quality of external third party services.
• Development and implementation of policies and procedures for product development UX.
• Management of product development UX risk, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to mitigate those risks, and maintenance of alignment between the bank’s product development UX and compliance functions.
• Monitoring the financial performance of the product development UX department, including revenue, profitability, and cost control.
• Conducting thorough market research to understand market trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory changes to identify market opportunities.

Vice President Expectations

To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escal... If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.. If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.. OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.. Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Senior UX Designer in Markets - Post Trade

Join us a Senior UX Designer in Markets - Post Trade, with the remit to have direct impact end to end experience across the application portfolio. You will be solving complex interaction problems with ingenuity and an eye for identifying opportunities for experience excellence alongside user research, journey mapping and end to end and visual design. This is an interesting time to join as we embark on a greenfield program, and define a central User Experience function.

• Visual design and product design Interactive Figma prototypes Interaction design Journey mapping and Information Architecture Some other highly valued skills may include; Demonstrable creativity and imaginative skills Collaborative approach
• You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills

Location is Canary Wharf, London..

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.