Description
JOB TITLE: UX Squad Lead (12-Month FTC)
LOCATION: Halifax / Leeds /Manchester / Chester
SALARY: £76,194 - £89,640
HOURS: Full Time
DURATION: 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time in the office.
Who we're looking for
Are you ready for a new challenge?
Lloyds Banking Group is the largest mortgage provider in the UK and the number one choice for mortgage brokers. The mortgages experience design team are looking for a talented and driven UX design squad leader who can help take our broker experience to the next level.
You'll lead a multi disciplinary team of UX/UI designers, Research, Service design, Content design, so understanding how to leverage these skills across a team is vital for the successful candidate. You'll also work with senior stakeholders and coordinate with engineering, to deliver exceptional B2B mortgage broker experiences. You will take full ownership of their output, providing rationale for design decisions and confidently present their work back to stakeholders and coach designers in your team to grow.
As a UX Squad Lead, it’ll be your role to:
1. Shape and implement experience strategy for broker experiences
2. Having a deep understanding of customer needs, pain points and expectations
3. Understand goals and challenges in the context of business and engineering priorities
4. Work with service designers to influence and develop the roadmap and overall product strategy
5. Engage with leadership to understand objectives and opportunities aligned to good customer outcomes
6. Provide leadership to a team of multi-disciplinary designers to support decision-making, delivery and team culture
7. Establish a growth culture and build capabilities through the formal development and mentoring of team members
What you'll need
8. Extensive and demonstrable experience within User Experience design/Product Design
9. B2B(2C) design experience preferrable
10. Design systems experience, including Figma expertise
11. Understanding of Qual and Quant research
12. Experience leading teams
13. Strong stakeholder negotiation skills
14. A strong strategic vision that aligns well to the overall business strategy
15. Line management experience
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 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. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
16. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
17. Share schemes including free shares
18. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
19. 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
20. A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!
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. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.