Lead Service Designer

Join us as a Lead Service Designer

• We’re looking for someone to lead Design Thinking activities to transform the services we provide our commercial and institutional customers
• You’ll be accountable for applying our design process and developing desirable solutions that support business objectives
• It’s a rewarding opportunity to lead a team of subject matter experts in all digital customer experiences, giving you excellent exposure for your work

What you’ll do

In this high-profile role, you’ll be shaping the future of our bank, by identifying new and innovative digital experiences and solving pain points at key moments across the user journey. We’ll look to you to act as the digital representative on change programmes, helping to deliver and manage projects through all stages in the cycle including design, build and test.

You’ll be accountable for making sure all deliverables are customer focused, meet the commercial goals of the business and are aligned to our digital strategy.

Your responsibilities will also include:

• Leveraging a deep understanding of human-centred design processes alongside tools and methods to deliver the best customer experiences
• Working closely with the relevant functions, ensuring requirements are adhered to and end results meet expectations
• Collaborating with other channels and owners of detailed processes in other programmes to promote a productive relationship
• Delivering new customer journeys that drive measurable benefits, working through the full project lifecycle through to go live

The skills you’ll need

We’re looking for a design thinker, with the ability to lead the design process and take research insights, and support the business in creating transformative customer experiences. You’ll already have a history of working with Agile, lean or iterative processes coupled with demonstrable commercial acumen. We’d also like to see previous management experience and a working knowledge of banking products and services.

You’ll also be expected to have:

• Knowledge of effective design thinking methodologies, tools and techniques
• Strong interpersonal skills to maximise resources, prioritise activities, balance conflicting demands and motivate others
• The ability to work to tight timescales and high-pressure plans