UX Designer

Embark on a transformative journey as an UX Designer at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

USCB UX Designer team provides early-stage research, ideation, experience solutions, and designs for any product or feature that will be consumed through any USCB digital product experience channel (i.e. responsive web, mobile native, voice, etc.).

**To be successful in this role, you should possess the following skillsets**:

- Proven experience owning features from concept to delivery.
- Strong interaction and visual design skills grounded in human-centered principles.
- Understanding of responsive and mobile-first design practices.
- Experience designing within or contributing to a design system.
- Track record of collaborating with POs, engineers, and researchers in agile environments.
- Ability to balance user needs with technical constraints and business goals.
- Solid communication skills, including presenting to stakeholders.
- Portfolio demonstrating real-world product design, problem solving, and team collaboration.

**Some other highly valued skills include**:

- Proficiency in prototyping in Figma.
- Experience running usability tests and synthesizing findings into actionable insights.
- Working knowledge of service design or journey mapping.
- Familiarity with design tokens and component-based architecture.
- Cross-platform design experience (iOS, Android, Web).
- Certifications or training in accessibility, design thinking, or UX strategy.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in our Pune office.

**Purpose of the role**

To manage product development UX and set the strategic direction. Provide support to the bank's senior management team, and to manage product development risk across the organisation.

**Accountabilities**
- Development of strategic direction for product development UX, including the implementation of up to date methodologies and processes.
- Management of product development UX initiatives, including oversight of colleagues and their performance, implementation of departmental goals and objectives, oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness..
- Relationship management of product development UX stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders, and maintenance of the quality of external third party services.
- Development and implementation of policies and procedures for product development UX.
- Management of product development UX risk, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to mitigate those risks, and maintenance of alignment between the bank’s product development UX and compliance functions..
- Monitoring the financial performance of the product development UX department, including revenue, profitability, and cost control.
- Conducting thorough market research to understand market trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory changes to identify market opportunities.

**Assistant Vice President Expectations**
- To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others.
- OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
- Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
- Perform work that is closely related to that of other ar