UX Designer

JOB TITLE: UX Designer (12-Month FTC)
HOURS: Full-Time
DURATION: 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract
Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time in the Edinburgh office.
As a UX Designer, you will be part of the Enterprise Experience Design (eXD) Team, primarily supporting the Payment Services platform or our Digital Finance Lab (our innovation lab for blockchain and tokenisation) in Lloyds Banking Group.
You will employ rapid prototyping and user testing techniques to craft and refine end to end consumer-centric journeys.
Craft end-to-end user experience, bringing together a cohesive journey step by step, bringing designs to life through Figma. You'll be confident presenting work and running user testing sessions.
Design intuitive, efficient, and visually engaging interfaces for internal users working with different payments services.
Define UI components and interaction patterns to a level of detail that enables seamless handoff to development, as well as inclusion into our Design system.
Advocate customer inclusion, ensuring designs are inclusive and accessible to colleagues and customers of all ages, backgrounds, and technical abilities.
Comfortable being the UX expert in a team of Payments colleagues, leading all aspects of design delivery.
Proven experience designing for data-rich or technical products, ideally in enterprise or payment domains.
Comfortable supporting on UX research activities and able to use these learnings to create evidence-based designs.
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.
Familiarity with digital finance concepts (such as blockchain, tokenisation and stablecoins) and data visualisation

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. We're disability confident. We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
~ A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
~ A 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