UX Designer

Northampton, United Kingdom

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Date live: 11/10/2022

Business Area: COO & Functions

Area of Expertise: Technology

Reference Code: 90271605

Contract: Permanent/Regular

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UX Designer
UK Wide - Remote

As a Barclays UX Designer, you will be joining a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team of UX and UI Designers, Researchers and Copywriters. With the customer voice at the heart of everything you do, you’ll help craft first-class online experiences for our customers across Barclays, Barclaycard and our international digital channels. Utilising your expertise of UX processes and design, you’ll take the lead on executing the end-to-end User Centred Design (UCD) process.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

What will you be doing?

• Executing the UCD process from start to finish including the delivery of user journeys, sketches, wireframes and interactive prototypes

• Participating in and running workshops/walkthrough sessions following methodologies such as design sprints, jobs to be done, design thinking methods

• You will be proactive in solving problems effectively, using multiple sources of factual information

• Working through complex problems and resolve to an appropriate solution

• Ensuring all outputs adhere to all relevant policies and standards

• Gathering in-depth insights into user’s needs, motivations and organise content and information across our digital services and products to deliver a positive user experience

• You will constantly push for a customer-centric approach whilst delivering on required business objectives

What we’re looking for:

• An excellent understanding of the UX process, UCD and design thinking methodology, alongside demonstrable experience designing for web and/or mobile

• Proficient in UX software such as Axure, Adobe XD and Sketch

• The ability to create flows, low-fidelity wireframes, prototypes, information architecture and taxonomies

• The ability to translate a combination of business requirements, user needs and technical requirements into engaging designs

Skills that will help you in the role:

• An understanding of project delivery methodologies, including Agile

• The ability to design accessible and inclusive interfaces for a range of audiences

• Experience working in the financial sector

Where will you be working?

This opportunity is open to remote working across the UK. You can be home based, or work in either our Northampton or Manchester office.

It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

Dynamic working gives everyone at Barclays the opportunity to integrate professional and personal lives, if you have a need for flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager.

More about working at Barclays

Our approach to hybrid working ensures there’s the right balance of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, as required for each role. For business areas that offer a hybrid working experience, this will be in a structured way, where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week. Some roles may require full onsite working. Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager.

We continue to embed and review our hybrid working environment and remain in a phase of testing and learning. This means that working arrangements could change, with reasonable notice, to align with the needs of our business.

Barclays welcomes applications from all candidates and is committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments (accommodations) are put in place to allow for a fair and inclusive recruitment process. For more information and how to request one, please review Adjustments to the recruitment process.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive culture and environment, that recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives, as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs.

Our approach to working flexibly is designed to support you to balance your life and to accommodate diverse needs, whilst still allowing us to meet our business needs. If you’d like to request a flexible working arrangement, please discuss this with your hiring manager.

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We are an equal opportunity employer and opposed to discrimination on any grounds. It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

Barclays is required by law to confirm that you have the Legal Right to Work in any role that you apply for. If you currently hold a work visa sponsored by Barclays, or you would require sponsorship from Barclays, you must declare this as part of your application. Sponsored visas are role and entity specific and any changes must be reviewed. It is important that you ensure you are working on the correct visa at all times. Failure to accurately disclose your visa status or Legal Right to Work may result in your application or any employment offer being withdrawn at any time.

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