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Senior Design Research Lead (12-Month FTC)

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  • Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)
  • 136570
  • Manchester, Chester, Halifax
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End date

Monday 15 September 2025

Salary range

£76,194 - £89,640

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Job description

JOB TITLE: Senior Design Research Lead (12-Month FTC)

LOCATION: Manchester / Halifax / 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.

About this opportunity
Here at Lloyds Banking Group, we value Design Research. We’re a large, experienced team of 40+ researchers. We shape product and service development. Everyone has different strengths and passions... maybe you’re an expert in accessibility, skilled in quantitative research, or have a solid background in user experience (UX). We'll encourage you to test and learn new ways of doing research and foster a culture of mentoring, collaborating, and learning from other researchers.
 

Working in a multi-disciplinary design, product, and engineering team, you’ll develop and lead the research strategy for a key area of our business. You’ll also be supported by our wider Design Research and Analytics community. You’ll be responsible for managing the research plan and roadmap for your service or product area. You’ll deliver research to solve customer problems, unlock new opportunities, and guide what is created. You’ll enjoy working on varied research across the product development lifecycle, from generative to evaluative research.


What you'll need

  • Extensive design research expertise, including a strong practical understanding of when and how to apply a broad range of research techniques.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills - working closely with various teams to understand business objectives and address their hypotheses with detailed research proposals and plans.
  • Able to identify the most important and relevant insights from research, and confident to convey those in an influential manner. Experience will allow you to lead by example in advocating for good research practices across your wider team.
  • Able to lead the strategic insight agenda in your domain, designing research studies that help to understand future customer needs and proactively ensuring designers have the right insights to inform their approaches.
  • Strong project management capabilities, adaptable and able to supervise and deliver multiple projects at the same time.
  • Able to work with data analysts to demonstrate both quantitative and qualitative insights to help teams make more customer-centred decisions.
  • Experience with quantitative design research methods.
  • Knowledge of and experience being an advocate for accessibility and inclusive design.
  • Experience leading a team of researchers – including task management, mentoring, and support.

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:

  • A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

  • Share schemes including free shares

  • Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

  • 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

  • A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today and let’s create something extraordinary together!

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