Senior UX Designer - (Design System) (D78)

☞ Hargreaves Lansdown

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Update day: 01-06-2024

Location: Bristol South West

Category: Design - Web Arts / Design Architecture / Interior Design IT - Software

Industry: Financial Services

Position: Associate

Job type: Full-time

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Excited to grow your career?

Our mission is to ’help people save and invest with confidence’. We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at HL.

Our user-centred design team is growing and we’re looking for an experienced UX designer to join our growing design system team. The design system is a relatively new endeavour for us and we’re growing the team tasked with helping improve the quality, consistency, and development speed of our digital products.

Key Duties And Responsibilities

As a Senior UX designer within the design system team, you will:
  • help define and promote organisational design standards
  • identify, capture and communicate the needs and capabilities of the design system’s users
  • lead the co-creation of the governance, processes and principles needed to manage the design system
  • collaborate with your team and external squads to assure and document design standards
  • conduct regular reviews with external squads to simplify, consolidate, and challenge design patterns
  • collaborate with engineering to define and deliver design system platform architecture and tooling
  • evaluate the quality, consistency, and usefulness of design system guidance with users
  • iterate the design system based on evidence and sound rationale
  • proactively communicate changes and updates to colleagues across the business
  • assist colleagues across the business with design and accessibility questions
  • create a shared understanding of users and their experience through the collaborative creation of UX artefacts
  • present complex information and concepts to colleagues in a clear and articulate manner
  • work with the UX Design Lead and user centred design practice to promote and shape UX design at HL
What We’re Looking For
  • are a passionate advocate for both high design and engineering standards with a meticulous attention to detail
  • are an open, confident, and considered communicator and collaborator
  • have excellent knowledge of established design and interaction patterns
  • have excellent knowledge of web accessibility guidelines
  • have experience using and contributing to design systems
  • have experience developing and evaluating information architecture
  • have experience facilitating effective collaborative workshops
  • can follow a rigorous, yet flexible, user-centred design process within an Agile environment
  • can produce testable prototypes (using varied tools and methods) for design research and evaluation
  • can clearly articulate design rationale to both designers and stakeholders
  • can employ excellent analytical, and critical thinking skills in your work
Not Essential, But We Would Also Like To See
  • a degree in UX Design, HCI, or a related field
  • working knowledge of front-end development
  • experience working in distributed teams
  • experience with Figma
  • experience with ZeroHeight
  • experience with GitLab (or similar)
  • experience with Adobe Analytics (or similar)
Why Hargreaves Lansdown

Here at Hargreaves Lansdown, we’re the UK’s number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we’ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.

To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams and a great ethos. We’re steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

WHAT’S ON OFFER?
  • Performance-related annual bonus scheme
  • 25* days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays, plus 1 day additional Christmas closure time
  • Option to purchase up to an additional 5 days holiday each year
  • Pension scheme - up to 19% contribution
  • Flexible working options available
  • Enhanced parental leave benefits
  • Variety of travel to work schemes, including season ticket loans and cycle to work
  • Bike storage and shower facilities
  • Employee assistance programme
  • Volunteering opportunities
  • Annual events, activities and sports groups
  • Smart casual dress policy and dress down Fridays
We know that sometimes the ’perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist, and that people can be put off applying for a job if they don’t tick every box. If you’re excited about working for us, and have most of the skills or experience we’re looking for, please go ahead and apply. You could be just what we need!

Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis – please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.

Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.
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Deadline: 16-07-2024

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