Product Designer 10 months - NatWest Group - #2175549

Join us as a Product Designer

• You'll be responsible for product design across a portfolio, providing a strategic approach with end-to-end design thinking
• You'll be operating in a fast-paced environment, working end-to-end to understand user needs and deliver cutting edge design
• In this role you'll have the opportunity to work within cross functional design teams to deliver best in class solutions for our digital projects
• This is a remote-first role, so you'll spend most of your time at home, working with your team digitally and cominginto the office once a week when you need to collaborate closely with your colleagues
• We're offering this role for a period of 10 months

What you'll do

As a Product Designer, you'll champion design thinking methodologies to drive your projects forward , including new ways of working, new user research techniques and new products within the Fintech innovation space. Your work will bring high quality designs to meet the needs of our customers and the business.

Throughout the course of your work, you'll collaborate with others to develop and meet the standards through peer reviews and knowledge sharing. You'll also be managing and leading workshops and crafting reports, as well as contributing to playback sessions with multiple stakeholders.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Pushing the usability and market success of our new and current products, enabling us to fulfil our business objectives
• Producing journey maps, UX wireframes, hi-fidelity UI and prototypes to effectively communicate design ideas to obtain stakeholder buy-in
• Running and managing ideation, brainstorming and critiquing workshops with multiple stakeholders
• Working closely with engineering, product, and business teams to find solutions to design challenges that appeal to customers

The skills you'll need

We're looking for someone with experience of delivering customer focused designs and ideally including native mobile design. You'll also bring the ability to work well in an agile, fast paced and data driven environment. To be considered for this role, you must submit a portfolio demonstrating your past work and experience alongside your application.

We'll also expect you to have:

• Experience of developing customer facing digital applications and products and in launching customer focused digital products
• An understanding of user research and the benefits that these insights have on design solutions
• A background in user research
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Experience of creating solutions that combine the needs of the customer with the needs of the business