AVP - UX Design

Were looking for a seasoned Service Designer to help us on our mission to create excellent service experiences in the Corporate . Whether observing users, co-creating with stakeholders, or working with fellow designers, you are passionate about representing the human perspective and translating insight into tangible and delightful customer experiences at the intersection of digital products and financial services. Our services are global: you thrive in highly ambiguous situations and enjoy solving complex problems. Your work will have reach and impact on a large scale in the financial services sector while working in a creative, dynamic and multicultural environment.

Your responsibilities :

Service Design: You have a suite of design tools at the ready to build first-class services:

Scoping: Write inspiring service design project proposals

Co-creation: facilitate and run collaborative workshops. Partner with other designers from our UX team as well as technologists and product managers

Discovery: Plan, conduct, report-on, and advocate for a variety of research methodologies to synthesise and communicate insights.

Design and prototyping: create solutions ranging from a strategic level of 50,000 ft to a tactical one at 500 ft. Produce artefacts such as illustrated journey maps, service design blueprints, low-fi concept designs, service prototypes, value proposition proposals

Training: Run design thinking training sessions to help leaders in the firm from non-design backgrounds who are key sponsors for us in understanding design and how we can help them achieve their goals

Manage planning and delivery of projects (and where applicable team's responsibilities) within the project, to time and quality measures

Culture change: As important as the actual design you will play an integral role helping our organisation grow in the understanding and use of design to solve problems:

Foster excellent external and internal client relationships and proactively develop opportunities from these relationships

Confidently presenting to and inspiring internal clients

- Leading projects by smartly interpreting their challenges and driving towards the right solution, with a constant eye on value and impact

- Coach colleagues and stakeholders with less experience in service design in the tools and tricks of your trade

You are:

Someone who wants to influence your own development and push the boundaries of design. You will be experienced, under no-illusions about the challenge, but resolute to embody the change you want to see as part of a team of design-thinkers who will support one-another.

- At least 8 years of Design Thinking or Service Design experience in practice

- Academic and applied deep knowledge in some of the following areas: Research, User Experience Design, Product Design, Organisational Design, Strategic Design, Business Design

- Hands-on experience of designing for a variety of digital touch-points and non-digital channels including creating journey maps, blueprints and service prototypes.

- A passion for Customer Experience Design and its centrality to the future success of large organisations

- Excellent communication and storytelling skills, a confident presenter

- Strong project and people management skills. Must be able to function as a project leader as well as an individual contributor

- Experience of building effective partnerships and navigate complex organisations

- Proficiency with MS Office as well as design and prototyping tools such as Adobe, Sketch, InVision, or other similar, remote collaboration tools like Figma, Miro etc.