Design Researcher (12-Month FTC)

JOB TITLE: Design Researcher (12-Month FTC)

LOCATION(S): London
SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810

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 London office.

About this opportunity

Here at Lloyds Banking Group, we value Design Research. Our experienced team of 70+ researchers shape product and service development. Everyone brings different strengths and passions—from experts in UX strategy and accessibility, ethnographers to quantitative research whizzes and co-creation facilitators.
 

No matter what your passion, 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. You’ll also always be supported in your role by your research principal, other researchers in your area and our wider Design Research and Analytics community.

Working in a multi-disciplinary design, product, and engineering team, you’ll develop and lead the research for a key area of our business. This particular role sits within Segments & Propositions (Private Banking).
 

As the senior design researcher in this squad, you’ll be responsible for managing the research plan and roadmap for this area, collaborating with propositions and product representatives to shape activities that meet their needs and those of your wider stakeholders and customers.
 

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.
 

This role will appeal especially to researchers who have experience in recruiting, researching and co-creating with niche and hard to reach groups of customers. 

What you'll need

• Experience working closely with design and product teams to identify and prioritise the right research questions

• Has a collaborative approach to research - involve the rest of the team along the research process, including in note taking and sense making.

• Ability to work on more than one project at a time.

• Ability to create research roadmaps and plans to keep the team on track, helping set both short-term objectives and strategic direction

• Deep qualitative research experience using techniques such as usability testing (moderated and unmoderated), concept testing, and depth interviews

• Experience running quantitative studies (e.g. surveys) and able to analyse quantitative results

• Skilled in synthesising insights in an impactful and actionable manner to generate a shared understanding of user needs and opportunities

• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence wider business stakeholders with clarity and conciseness

• Experience combining qualitative and quantitative methods

• Ethnographic experience (e.g. contextual enquiry or diary studies)

• Ability to triangulate research and data from different sources to tell compelling customer stories

• Willingness to share your expertise and learn from others

• Experience recruiting and running research with niche customer groups

• Experience building customer panels would be advantageous

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%

• Annual performance-related bonus scheme

• 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!