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User Experience Squad Lead (12-Month FTC)

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  • Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)
  • 145897
  • Halifax, Chester, Leeds, Manchester
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End date

Friday 21 November 2025

Salary range

£76,194 - £89,640

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Agile Working Options

Job Share; Hybrid Working

Job description

JOB TITLE: UX Squad Lead (12-Month FTC)

LOCATION: Halifax / Leeds / Manchester / 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.

Who we're looking for

Are you ready for a new challenge?  

 

Lloyds Banking Group is the largest mortgage provider in the UK and the number one choice for mortgage brokers.  The mortgages experience design team are looking for a talented and driven UX design squad leader who can help take our broker experience to the next level.  

 

You'll lead a multi disciplinary team of UX/UI designers, Research, Service design, Content design, so understanding how to leverage these skills across a team is vital for the successful candidate. You'll also work with senior stakeholders and coordinate with engineering, to deliver exceptional B2B mortgage broker experiences. You will take full ownership of their output, providing rationale for design decisions and confidently present their work back to stakeholders and coach designers in your team to grow.

As a UX Squad Lead, it’ll be your role to:

  • Shape and implement experience strategy for broker experiences

  • Having a deep understanding of customer needs, pain points and expectations

  • Understand goals and challenges in the context of business and engineering priorities

  • Work with service designers to influence and develop the roadmap and overall product strategy

  • Engage with leadership to understand objectives and opportunities aligned to good customer outcomes

  • Provide leadership to a team of multi-disciplinary designers to support decision-making, delivery and team culture

  • Establish a growth culture and build capabilities through the formal development and mentoring of team members

What you'll need

  • Extensive and demonstrable experience within User Experience design/Product Design

  • B2B(2C) design experience preferrable

  • Design systems experience, including Figma expertise 

  • Understanding of Qual and Quant research

  • Experience leading teams

  • Strong stakeholder negotiation skills

  • A strong strategic vision that aligns well to the overall business strategy

  • Line management experience  

 

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 for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!
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