Visual Designer (12 Month FTC/Secondment)

JOB TITLE:  Visual Designer - 12 Month FTC

SALARY: £72,702 - £80,780

LOCATION(S): London

HOURS: Full Time 

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy. 

What you’ll be doing

We’re looking for someone to help bring our digital experiences to life. You’ll do this by creating visually and engaging with customers and stakeholders through storytelling.

You’ll work collaboratively alongside a full design multidisciplinary team, with a willingness to learn from - and actively support other Visual Designers. Working effectively and confidently as part of agile teams to help uncover priorities, visualise outcomes, and define scope. You’ll help identify and solve real customer problems and ensure that we put human’s needs at the heart of every problem we solve.

• Apply your creative thinking to solve complex problems and make them seem simple

• Design production assets, infographics, logos and other elements

• Create engaging digital experiences, design interfaces for web and mobile applications

• Mastering storytelling techniques to help the business communicate effectively

• Bring your designs to life with prototyping software

• Working effectively and confidently as part of agile teams to help uncover priorities, visualise outcomes, and define scope.

• Engage with design teams and communities of practices to understand objectives and opportunities aligned to good customer outcomes

• Design and layout pages and User Interfaces, skilfully and creatively using components from a central design system to figure out the right balance of content and UI (User Interface) elements on screen.

• Bring your designs and presentations to life with prototyping software (Figma is our main tool, experience is required) as well Adobe Creative suite and Microsoft tools like, Powerpoint, Excel, Acrobat.

Why join us?

We’re transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.

What we’re looking for?

• A minimum 5 years experience within Visual Design

• A collaborative attitude ready to support a busy multi-disciplinary team.

• Experience in solving visual design challenges and deliver experience-led brand digital journeys

• Tons of energy and enthusiasm to bring visual design to where it’s needed

• Understand and contribute with existing digital Design System and be an advocate of accessibility standards

• Ambitions to work collaboratively with – and learn from - a full-stack design team, including Researchers, Content Designers, Service Designers and Interaction Designers.

• Strong ability to see designs through to delivery – communicating with developers to ensure designs meet specifications and can be used by a broad range of users of all backgrounds, ages and abilities

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

This is a place for you

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

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

• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to make an impact? Apply today.