Job Description

The Role Responsibilities
To support our focus on continuous improvement we are looking for a mid to senior level Experience Designer to join our team. You will be working on a wide range of projects and services for Standard Chartered employees.

As part of the Employee Experience team you will be responsible for improving and informing the experiences of our employees during their employment life cycle at the bank. This will involve conducting research, workshops, driving insights, creating personas, working on user journeys, and validating outputs in our offices all over the world.

This is a role for a candidate with an ethnographic research or service design background interested in people, or with a background in HR/End User Services interested in design. Given the nature of this role, we are looking for experienced candidates with a unique blend of innovation process improvement and functional expertise. We are looking for a professional who will bring agile thinking, an understanding of process data and can thrive in a virtual, global team.

• Work collaboratively within the experience team and programme teams to set up and run research, all within the context of business requirements
• Through a breadth of user research methodologies, develop an intimate knowledge of employee requirements and organisational behaviours, to enable clear definition of employee journeys
• Apply innovative methodologies (such as HCD thinking) to plan and facilitate the most efficient approach to design and improvements
• Deliver intuitive user experiences, translating research into user journeys, personas, all optimised for a wide range of devices and interfaces
• Monitor and identify design opportunities & performance within the core products and develop solutions to counter them, selling these solutions into the wider business through research output, prototyping and user-testing
• Clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas and solutions to the wider business
• Bring a user-centred design approach to UX decisions on potential future features and functionalities
• Champion the experience perspective across the organisation
• Support the Experience team in actively developing, monitoring and improving the global design process
• Clearly convey insights and expertise to stakeholders to inform and validate business decisions

Our Ideal Candidate

• Over all 3+ years of relevant experience working on usability testing for digital projects and or ethnographic research
• Demonstrable UX design or service design experience
• User-centred design skills, including delivery of user research and testing, ethnographies, A/B testing, prototyping, usability, and accessibility assessment
• Expertise in standard UX software. Adobe, In Design, Figma, JIRA, Excel and Power Point
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• A self-starter, who is able to plan and structure work, understanding the principles involved with integrating into large scale programme teams without supervision
• Excellent organizational and time keeping skills
• Global mind set, experience of working across multiple time zones
• Ability to work with stakeholders to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experience that meet business needs and vision

A team player, who is culturally aware * Self development of skills to keep up to date with fast changing trends

In return, you'll be part of a global financial organization that is keen to push forward new ideas for improving their employee experience. You'll be working as part of a fast paced and creative team that will give you the autonomy to direct UX as you see fit on the projects you are involved in.

Hybrid and remote working options will be considered for this role.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• UX Research
• Interaction design
• Communication skills
• Visual design

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
• Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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