Description
Role - Visual Designer
Location - London
Duration - 6 months
Our client has been serving the households, businesses and communities of Britain for over 250 years. They offer a comprehensive range of financial products and services - including current accounts, savings, mortgages, loans and credit cards.
What's the role about?
You'll work with a multidisciplinary team of designers, product owners, engineers, business analysts and others to identify and solve meaningful problems for customers.
As part of Design, you will be responsible for injecting empathy & creativity into the work, ensuring the team has customer focus through everything they do.
You will help translate our team's vision of Designing for Prosperity into tangible outcomes for people.
Day to Day responsibilities:
- Inject the brand essence, the brand Visual Identity and Design Language patterns into all products, creating a streamlined experience across all touch points.
- Define the visual treatments, aligning with brand requirements, best practises, accessibility and vulnerability guidance
- Simplify and refine style guides and customer-centric visual design standards/systems
- Advise on tools and methods to be used across specific elements of visual design
- Provide an interface with all stakeholders to champion and facilitate high quality visual design focus
- Conceptualise and produce high quality and detailed visual design assets that are consistent with the brief and the brand
You can help us design for prosperity with your ability to:
- Deliver pixel perfect solutions
- Use data & insights to develop designs
- Use Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Invision and Figma proficiently
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders of different background & levels to get buy-in
- Work autonomously & in larger teams, often in a fast paced environment (eg Agile & Design sprints)
- Use design thinking principles to define better problems & creative solutions
- design methods
You're a good fit if you have
- Ideally 5+ years' experience in digital design, working in agile environments
- A profound understanding of branding, layout, composition, typography, illustration etc
- A well-presented design portfolio
- An inquisitive mind and desire to inject creativity and great design thinking into financial products
- Prototyping and animation knowledge (it's a plus, not a requirement)
*Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.
- Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.
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