# UX Designer - 12 Month FTC
JOB TITLE: UX Designer - 12 Month FTC
SALARY: £61,344 - £68,160
LOCATION: Bristol
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.
What you'll be doing
We're looking for someone who can work collaboratively alongside a full design team and take full ownership of their design output. They will be confident when presenting their work to stakeholders, and able to adapt designs to reflect their feedback and feedback from user research and usability testing.
It'll be your role to:
•Skillfully craft the end-to-end user experience, bringing together a cohesive journey step by step, creatively using components from a central design system to figure out the right balance of content and UI (User Interface) elements on screen
•Bring designs to life with a choice of prototyping software, such as Sketch / InVision / Figma / Axure / Adobe XD
•Balance business requirements with user needs – you'll be 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 – what it means to make an inclusive and accessible design to be used by customers of a wide range of ages, backgrounds and technical abilities
Why join us?
We're investing billions in our people, places and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We're growing, and we'd love you to be part of the journey.
What we're looking for?
•Demonstrable experience within User Experience design/Interaction Design
•Strong experience as an Interaction Designer, UX Designer (or possibly from a Visual Design background)
•Full ownership of the Interaction Design project
•Excellent prototyping and layout skills which they can articulate clearly to internal customers and development teams
•Comfortable using existing design systems, proactively recommending new ways to improve and extend them to benefit both the project and other designers
•Ability to interpret quantitative and qualitative research, and how this informs the interaction design process. We have dedicated user research teams supporting designers on real data, providing a great wealth of customer insights.
•Familiarity working in a complex landscape
•A collaborative mindset to work closely and quickly with a multi-disciplinary team
•Strong ability to see designs through to delivery – communicating with developers to ensure designs meet specifications and can be used by a broad range of users of all backgrounds, ages and abilities
•Strong advocacy of customer inclusivity and accessibility
And any experience of these would be great:
•You'll have experience in financial services
Benefits
•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
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.
