Product Design Lead

Barclays; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Product Design Lead based in Pune to guide user-centered digital banking design. You will shape product strategies, lead design teams across multiple regional and global projects, and collaborate with product managers and engineers to deliver compelling, accessible experiences.

You will drive end-to-end design from discovery through delivery, advocate for user research, ensure consistency with brand guidelines, and mentor junior designers.

Qualifications

• Proven design leader in Engineering-led organisations.
• Local site design leadership / management.
• End-to-end product design.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with ENG and Product teams.
• Working with a Global team.
• 10+ years of professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Execution of user research and usability tests to understand customer needs, pain points, and integrate feedback and preferences into banking products and services, through collaboration with various stakeholders, including product managers and developers.
• Creation of intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for digital banking platforms and applications for a seamless and engaging user experience.
• Design and maintenance of visually appealing and consistent user interfaces that align with the bank's brand identity and design guidelines across digital products.
• Creation of wireframes and interactive prototypes for visualisation and testing of product concepts and features before development.
• Accessibility considerations to ensure that designs comply with accessibility standards and guidelines to provide an inclusive experience for all users.
• Monitoring of industry trends, design best practices, and emerging technologies to continuously improve the design quality and innovation of banking products.

Skills

Design leadership

Site design leadership

End-to-end product design

Cross-functional collaboration

Global team experience

10+ years experience

Job description

Product Design Lead – VP

Join us at Barclays, where we don’t just adapt to the future, we create it. As a Product Design Lead we support the organisation in achieving its strategic objectives through identification of business requirements and solutions that address challenges and opportunities.

To be a successful Product Design Lead you should have experience with:

• Proven design leader in Engineering‑led organisations
• Local site design leadership / management
• End‑to‑end product design
• Strong cross‑functional collaboration with ENG and Product teams
• Working with a Global team
• 10+ years of professional experience

Additional Relevant Skills Given Below Are Highly Valued

• Experience in financial services or regulated industries
• Accessibility and inclusive design
• Experience conducting and leading User Research
• Designing internal‑facing products

This role is based in Pune.

Purpose of the role

To create user‑centred and visually appealing designs for digital banking products by conducting user research, designing user interfaces and experiences, collaborating with stakeholders, and continuously improving.

Accountabilities

• Execution of user research and usability tests to understand customer needs, pain points, and integrate feedback and preferences into banking products and services, through collaboration with various stakeholders, including product managers and developers.
• Creation of intuitive and user‑friendly interfaces for digital banking platforms and applications for a seamless and engaging user experience.
• Design and maintenance of visually appealing and consistent user interfaces that align with the bank's brand identity and design guidelines across digital products.
• Creation of wireframes and interactive prototypes for visualisation and testing of product concepts and features before development.
• Accessibility considerations to ensure that designs comply with accessibility standards and guidelines to provide an inclusive experience for all users.
• Monitoring of industry trends, design best practices, and emerging technologies to continuously improve the design quality and innovation of banking products.

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 escalation of breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes. Lead specialists to influence the operations of a department, balancing short and long‑term goals and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver consistently excellent standards. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• For an individual contributor, they will be a subject‑matter expert within their discipline and will guide technical direction, lead collaborative, multi‑year assignments, guide team members through structured assignments, and identify the need for 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, supporting the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls relative to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation’s functions to contribute to achieving the business goals.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, business‑aligned support areas to stay up to speed with business activity and strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analytical and 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 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.