Service Designer - 12 Month FTC

Lloyds Banking Group; Leeds; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension contribution up to 15

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes

Wellbeing initiatives

30 days' holiday

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group in the United Kingdom is seeking a design-oriented professional to work within agile teams, shaping strategic initiatives and ensuring decisions are informed by user and market insight.

You will collaborate with designers, product owners and engineers, attend workshops with stakeholders, and advocate for research-backed solutions while striving for inclusive, accessible services.

Responsibilities

• Work effectively and confidently as part of agile teams to help uncover priorities, visualise outcomes, and define scope.
• Shape strategic initiatives ensuring we are led by colleague, customer and market insight when creating or enhancing our propositions and services.
• Attend workshops and discussions with stakeholders, making sure the business context, needs and risks are properly understood, and that key decisions are well informed.
• Communicate with colleagues and stakeholders to manage expectations and incorporate multiple perspectives when defining solutions.
• Support the research and document current and future state services.
• Make good design decisions, bring the user perspective to the forefront and challenge the validity of constraints.
• Take ownership for your own development.
• Collaborate closely with other designers, product owners, and engineers.
• Be an active member of the design community to share knowledge, create ideas, and embed principles of design across a range of product, service, and customer journeys.

Job description

• Work effectively and confidently as part of agile teams to help uncover priorities, visualise outcomes, and define scope.
• Shape strategic initiatives ensuring we are led by colleague, customer and market insight when creating or enhancing our propositions and services.
• Attend workshops and discussions with stakeholders, making sure the business context, needs and risks are properly understood, and that key decisions are well informed.
• Communicate with colleagues and stakeholders to manage expectations and incorporate multiple perspectives when defining solutions.
• Support the research and document current and future state services.
• Make good design decisions, bring the user perspective to the forefront and challenge the validity of constraints.
• Take ownership for your own development.
• Collaborate closely with other designers, product owners, and engineers.
• Be an active member of the design community to share knowledge, create ideas, and embed principles of design across a range of product, service, and customer journeys.

Why join us?

Join us and, give us your best and we'll give you ours. Here, you'll make a difference to customers, you'll enjoy a fulfilling career where you're free to be yourself. Great colleagues, amazing workspaces, hybrid working and huge career opportunities-you'll find them all here., Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

You’ll love your craft and enjoy sharing your knowledge with others. Whether that's advocating for Service Design with product teams, defining new ways of working together more effectively or helping evolve the craft., We're looking for someone with a highly motivated, proactive, and driven approach to achieving individual and collective goals coupled with the ability to help cultivate an environment that encourages innovation and continuous improvement. You'll have strong relationship building skills and an innovative approach to problem solving and will be credible when dealing with senior audiences; with the confidence to provide a healthy challenge where appropriate. You'll also possess calmness and resilience when under pressure, and the ability to proactively identify new or potential risks and respond to emerging priorities. Additionally you'll have strong communication skills; effective in communicating ideas, issues, and implications to senior, technical and non - technical audiences and will have experience in research and design thinking methods. We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need. We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies