Lead UX/UI Designer - Private Banking - Hybrid
Lead UX/UI Designer - Private Banking
We are seeking a Lead UX Designer to help shape our next-generation digital banking platforms and elevate the experience of our high-net-worth clients across web and mobile channels. If you're passionate about crafting elegant, intuitive, and secure user experiences in a highly regulated, high-stakes environment—this is the opportunity for you.
Your Role
As Lead UX Designer, you will:
- Own the end-to-end UX design process for our private banking digital services.
- Lead and mentor a team of UX/UI designers, ensuring design consistency, quality, and innovation.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, developers, data analysts, and compliance teams to define and execute design strategies.
- Conduct user research with affluent clients and relationship managers to uncover needs, pain points, and opportunities.
- Translate complex financial workflows into intuitive, accessible, and elegant user interfaces.
- Advocate for design thinking and a user-centered mindset across the organization.
- Create and maintain UX frameworks, design systems, and documentation aligned with brand and accessibility standards.
What You Bring
- 7+ years of UX design experience, including 2+ years in a lead or senior role.
- Proven success designing digital products in financial services—preferably private banking, wealth management, or fintech.
- Strong portfolio showcasing complex UX challenges and user-centric solutions.
- Deep understanding of design thinking, user research, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing.
- Familiarity with security, compliance, and accessibility standards in the financial sector.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proficiency with tools such as Figma, Sketch, InVision, or similar.
- Company
- Thomson Keene
- Location
- Edinburgh, UK
Hybrid / WFH Options - Posted
- Company
- Thomson Keene
- Location
- Edinburgh, UK
Hybrid / WFH Options - Posted