Service Designer - Credit Cards (12 Month FTC/Secondment)

lloyds banking group; Chester; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a Service Designer for a 12-month FTC in Chester. The role involves working collaboratively to enhance customer journeys, facilitating workshops, and leading design initiatives. Candidates should possess strong experience in design research methods, with a focus on customer needs and insights. This position promotes a hybrid working pattern and comes with excellent benefits, including a generous pension contribution and 30 days of holiday.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Discretionary annual performance-related bonus

30 days holiday, with bank holidays on top

A range of wellbeing initiatives

Share schemes including free shares

Qualifications

• Experience with design methods including interviews and questionnaire design.
• Skilled in facilitating workshops and discussions.
• Proficient in documenting services and prototyping.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of agile teams to define and visualize outcomes.
• Collaborate with designers, product owners, and engineers.
• Shape and deliver research programs based on insights.

Skills

Contextual enquiry

Customer journey mapping

Creative workshop facilitation

Service blueprinting

Persona development

Job description

Job Details

End Date: Friday 09 January 2026

Salary Range: £59,850 - £66,500

Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Title: Service Designer (12-Month FTC)

Location: Chester / Manchester

Hours: Full-Time

Duration: 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract

Working Pattern: Hybrid: at least two days per week, or 40% of time in the office.

Job Description Summary

Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s leading bank with over 30 million customers and its biggest digital bank, with over 18 million active online customers. We’ve placed an ambitious transformation programme and a multi‑channel approach to banking at the heart of our strategy to be the best bank for customers, backed by significant investment in our platforms and people over the next three years.

We serve millions of customers every day, from individuals and families to large businesses and corporations. This means we’re well‑placed to help Britain prosper by shaping the way we spend, save and borrow.

About this opportunity

We’re looking for an experienced Service Designer to join our Credit Cards design team in Chester (will also consider Manchester). This is a unique opportunity to define and enhance the journeys in which we engage and build relationships with our business customers, while supporting them with the right products, tools and services to meet their needs.

The services we design are crucial to supporting our customers to get the most from their online and mobile banking. It’s a pivotal time as we relook at how we evolve the experience. We need someone who can work effectively with product owners, business analysts, behavioural scientists and fellow designers to take propositions from concept to reality.

Lead Service Designer responsibilities

• Working effectively and confidently as part of agile teams to help uncover priorities, visualise outcomes and define scope.
• Collaborating closely within the multidisciplinary team of designers, product owners and engineers.
• Shaping and delivering programmes of research to ensure we are led by colleague, customer and market insight when creating or enhancing our propositions and services.
• Facilitating workshops and discussions with various collaborators and partners, ensuring that the business context, needs and risks are well understood and that key decisions are well‑informed.
• Communicating with colleagues and customers to manage expectations and incorporate multiple perspectives in the definition of solutions.
• Researching and documenting current state services and experiences, and prototyping future state services.
• Leading others to make good experience design decisions, bringing the user perspective to the forefront and challenging the validity of constraints.
• Taking responsibility for both personal development and the development of others, helping them to succeed through coaching and mentoring.
• Being 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.

Experience in research and design methods

• Contextual enquiry
• Interviews
• Diary studies
• Questionnaire design
• Customer journey mapping
• Service blueprinting
• Creative workshop facilitation
• Storyboarding
• Service safari
• Persona development
• Co‑creation
• Paper prototyping

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we’re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

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. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under‑represented groups.

We’re disability confident. If you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• Discretionary 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

Apply today

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!

About Lloyds Banking Group

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. 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.