UX Designer

UX Designer (12-Month FTC) – Lloyds Banking Group JOB TITLE: UX Designer (12-Month FTC) LOCATION: Halifax / Leeds / Manchester SALARY: £59,850 - £66,500 HOURS: Full‑Time DURATION: 12-Month Fixed‑Term Contract WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, involving at least two days per week, or 40% of our time in the office. About this opportunity As a UX Designer, you'll be responsible for the design process of a product from start to finish. With a deep understanding of customer needs and goals, you can act as the lynchpin between designers, engineers, and researchers, helping build mock‑ups through wireframes and prototypes. This is a unique opportunity to improve the journeys in which we engage our millions of customers, while supporting them with the right products, tools, and services. As a Designer, you are empathetic, strategic, and collaborative, and you understand how to communicate visually and engage through storytelling. We're keen to add to our team's reputation for delivering outstanding customer outcomes by demonstrating behaviours aligned with our own. Responsibilities Work as part of an agile team to help uncover priorities, visualise outcomes, and define scope. Support our research team to ensure decisions are led by colleague, customer, and market insight. Communicate with and influence colleagues, including those with digital and non‑digital backgrounds, to manage expectations and incorporate multiple perspectives. Make good design decisions by putting the user perspective at the forefront and challenging constraints. Collaborate closely with designers, product owners, and engineers across different teams. Share knowledge, generate ideas, and embed design principles across product, service, and customer journeys. Keep customers’ needs in mind when defining end‑to‑end journeys. Map out intuitive steps in processes, such as user flows. Structure information delivery throughout the journey to define and create page‑level prototypes and design goals. Create consistency and interaction techniques across channels, such as component design. What you'll need Demonstrable experience within Product Design. Experience of creating contributing design components for a design system. In‑depth understanding of competitor analysis, concepting, workshop facilitation, visual design across multiple channels, prototyping, and sketching. Interaction design and usability best‑practice knowledge. User research activity awareness. Proficiency with industry‑standard design and business tools, such as Sketch, Figma, and InVision. 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 forms. We want our people to feel 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 launch a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under‑represented groups. We're disability confident. If you need reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. Benefits A generous pension contribution of up to 15%. 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. Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today and let's create something extraordinary together Job details Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level Employment type: Full‑time Job function: Design Industries: Banking #J-18808-Ljbffr