UX Product Designer - Talent Pool

Capital One Financial ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

White Collar Factory (95009), United Kingdom, London, London At Capital One, we're building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding. Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good. UX Product Designer - Talent Pool We're currently building a talent pool ofUX Product Designersfor our teams inLondon & Nottingham. By joining the talent pool, you'll have a chat with our recruitment team following a shortlisting stage. You'll have the opportunity to discuss your skills, experience and find out more about the role and Capital One. Please click 'apply' to join our Talent Pool and we'll be in touch soon! OUR PRODUCT DESIGN PHILOSOPHY AT CAPITAL ONE We've invested heavily in building a strong digital practice that speaks directly to our mission of making credit simple. Our digital transformation has challenged us, taught us how to be creative and helped us bring to life a roadmap for customer servicing that stands alongside the best in the industry. Despite our progress, we want to do better. The Product Design practice is central to our continuous improvement. Product Design is a team of people with various skills and expertise, including UX, UI and Content. Designers partner with Product and Engineering within a Tribes model. Each Tribe owns its own roadmap, commercials and a customer-facing agenda. Our UX Designers advise and work alongside tribe leadership and hold the reigns of the product experience for our mobile app, web servicing and agent experience. They work with engineering teams using Agile delivery, co-creating and continually optimising our product experience. UI Designers act as guardians of our brand experience, ensuring the continuity and consistency of our design language. Our Content leads craft language that builds trust, removes ambiguity and help maintain our values of simplicity even when dealing with complex financial processes. We are all expected to collaborate with the business all the way through the delivery journey. Building roadmaps and working to identify, address and resolve delivery challenges. We're not a digitally native business, so our Product Designers have to be strong collaborators, communicators and facilitators. Willing to work with partners across the business, demonstrating strong leadership and accepting shared responsibility for our successes and failures. WHAT YOU'LL DO: * Partner with product management, development teams, researchers, and other design team members * Apply strategic thinking to design effective, engaging end to end experiences which balance user needs, business goals, and technological realities across platforms. * Be an active member of the Design team, working openly with colleagues to co-create solutions, review work and maintain a high standard of output. * Communicate concepts at a high level using sketches, wireflows, block diagrams etc. Deliver detailed designs using wireframes, prototypes and any other method you agree with partners, to effectively communicate intended interaction and design intent. * Work with the Research and Strategy teams to plan and execute research (you may be asked to moderate and lead on research yourself). * Build strong relationships and partnerships with engineering teams, get to know their needs, operational challenges, opportunities and cadence in order to get your solution into the hands of the user. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR: You must have: * Bachelor's Degree or commensurate studies in HCI, Design, Computer Science or other related field. * Proven experience (in-house or client-side) designing digital products and features for mobile or desktop, native app or web. * Portfolio demonstrating your UX design process and visual design. * Skilled using relevant tools such as Sketch, Framer, InVision, Adobe Suite. It would also be beneficial (but not essential) if you had: * Experience working in an Agile development process. * Experience working with web and mobile based technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Swift etc. WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU: We offer exciting and diverse career progression, investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes (and appropriate external providers). Immediate access to