Senior UI Designer

Sopra Banking Software is the partner of choice for more than 1,500 financial institutions worldwide.

The rich variety of our software, the strength of our conviction and our passion for innovation enable us to support our clients on a daily basis and in their projects, as well as in their goals regarding financial inclusion.

Our customers, based in over 80 countries around the world, benefit every day from our technologies and software, as well as the expertise of our 5,000 employees.

Sopra Banking Software is a subsidiary of the Sopra Steria Group, a European leader in consulting, digital services and software development. With more than 46,000 employees, the Sopra Steria Group generated a turnover of €4.3 billion in 2020.

We’re looking for a senior UI Designer who can work from Discovery to Delivery supporting design of our B2B white-label financial services products and to help us continue to evolve our design system. Your work can have a big impact on our products and on evangelising design and customer engagement in our organisation. You love working with visual design, typography, are strategic as well as detail-oriented while being a practitioner. We are looking for a talented individual who has deep knowledge of UI to join our design centre of excellence, work with our international teams and a wide range of financial services products and institutions.

**Daily you will**:

- Contribute to our evolving design system while remaining brand aligned and consistent, and ensuring we can deliver at pace and elevate design to a more strategic place within the organisation.
- Provide visual design direction for B2B, white-label financial services platform products. This includes understanding the product vision, making sure it is aligned to our SBS brand experience, and delivers incremental changes that help to drive our products forward.
- Support UI design leadership to product design teams with responsibility for creating and delivering finished design artefacts; this includes initial design discovery, sprints, workshops, creation of empathy and journey maps through to execution and delivery of UI.
- Make every effort to understand our customers and their end-users through user research.
- Be collaborative in your approach to design engaging with other designers and stakeholders.
- Approach design pragmatically knowing when to make trade-offs and the impact of those decisions.
- Play a critical role in evolving our design practice to become a best-in-class design practice.
- Support the Lead UI who sets vision and direction for the UI team.

**We’re interested in hearing from you, if**:

- You’ve designed world-class products before—preferably in the financial services space and are passionate about the challenge of designing for complex white-label financial services products.
- You are comfortable working within sprint planning and agile practice (e.g. Kanban, backlog, retro )
- You love typography and creating a consistent visual language.
- You can measure KPI’s and objectives that enable design work to be measurable and drive accountability.
- You design with all users in mind (B2B as well as B2C and for simple to complex product offering) considering inclusive design and accessibility.
- You have worked on designing and styling components in a design system.
- You are a big picture and strategic thinker who also considers the detailed design.
- You can see across products, business, and customer enabling you to deliver a more joined-up experience.
- You’ve led UI designers on projects from discovery through to delivery.
- You are a passionate advocate and evangelist of design, happy to share your knowledge, educate, mentor and coach others on its place and importance in the process.
- Experience working with our Design System software suite: Figma, Zeroheight

**Desirable**:

- You have a strong understanding of lean and agile methodologies.
- Design-related degree or ability to show how other degree relates to role.
- You are eager to understand our organisation using design to solve customer and business problems.
- Experience working with our other design software suite: Miro, Protopie, Axure, Optimal Workshop, Lookback, Sketch, Adobe CC, Adobe XD.

By joining the Sopra Banking Software team you will enjoy a market competitive salary and our excellent rewards and benefits schemes including a 6% pension contribution, employee share scheme (buy one get one free), an option to buy or sell holiday days, medical insurance, critical illness cover, a health cash plan, and we offer flexible working arrangements to all employees, plus many more excellent benefits.

Sopra Banking Software are proud to be an inclusive employer. This role is supported by flexible working, based from our London office we offer up to 3 days per week flexible remote working, with 2 days per week office based or on customer sites as required. All employees are supported to work from home with DSE assessments