UX Designer (12-Month FTC)

Lloyds Banking Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking group is seeking a UX Designer for a 12-month fixed-term contract in Manchester. This role involves crafting user experiences, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and advocating for customer inclusion in design. The ideal candidate will have strong UX design skills and experience in user testing, with a focus on creating accessible and effective digital experiences.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Strong, demonstrable experience as a UX Designer.
• Experience in running usability research sessions.
• Excellent prototyping and layout skills.

Responsibilities

• Craft the end-to-end user experience.
• Run user testing sessions to validate designs.
• Collaborate closely with engineers and product owners.

Skills

UX Design

Prototyping

User Testing

Collaboration

Problem Solving

Tools

Figma

Job description

JOB TITLE: UX Designer (12-Month FTC)

LOCATION(S): Manchester
SALARY: £59,850 - £66,500

HOURS: Full-Time
DURATION: 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time in the Manchester office.

Note: Occasional travel to other group locations (e.g. London, Leeds, and Edinburgh), may be required.

About this opportunity

As a UX Designer, you will be part of the Enterprise Experience Design (eXD) Team, primarilysupporting the Cyber Security area of Lloyds Banking Group. You will collaborate closely with engineers, product owners, and consumers to understand user needs and behaviours. You will employ rapid prototyping and user testing techniques to craft and refine end to end consumer-centric journeys and North Star experience visions for various products and services.

What You’ll Do

• Work in a technically focused environment, balancing complex security outcomes with consumer needs.

• Craft the end-to-end user experience, bringing together a cohesive journey step by step.

• Bring designs to life through Figma and feel confident in running user testing sessions.

• Balance business requirements with user needs, gathering user research and rationale to align stakeholders on individual user needs. You’ll know when to diplomatically push back, if necessary, to act on what’s right for the customer.

• Be adaptable to the technical constraints of different platforms yet still be able to give guidance on creating the best possible end-user experience.

• Advocate customer inclusion, ensuring designs are inclusive and accessible to customers of all ages, backgrounds, and technical abilities.

• Collaborate closely with other designers, product owners, and engineers.

What You’ll Need

• Strong, demonstrable experience as a UX Designer

• Highly motivated, proactive, and driven to achieve individual and collective goals.

• Experience in running usability research sessions,creating an environment that encourages innovation and learning.

• Comfortable being the UX expert in a team of Security colleagues, leading all aspects of UX, talking with users and building outputs.

• Excellent prototyping and layout skills, clearly articulating these to internal customers and development teams.

• Comfortable using and building on existing design systems, proactively recommending new ways to improve and extend them.

• Strong relationship-building skills, an innovative approach to problem-solving, and credibility when dealing with senior audiences, with the confidence to provide a healthy challenge where appropriate.

• A collaborative mindset, working closely with a multi-disciplinary team, and a desire to see designs through to delivery, communicating with developers to ensure designs meet specifications and can be used by a broad range of users.

Desirable Experience

• History of communicating with users to understand their needs and balance these against outcomes.

• Some experience as a Visual Designer.

About the Team
At the heart of our organisation, the Chief Security Office (CSO) plays a vital role in keeping our customers, colleagues, and data safe. They lead everything from property security to colleague security education and preventing cyber-attacks.

You will be joining the Enterprise Experience Design Team, working across the CSO Platform.You will work directly with feature teams to help them consider how consumers experience their products and services, aiming to build effective security experiences that deliver consumer and security value.

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. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• 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

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