Lloyds Banking Group
Lead UX Designer (12 Month FTC)
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End Date
Monday 03 August 2026
Salary Range
£78,098 - £91,880
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Lead UX Designer - 12 Month FTC
SALARY: £78,098 - £91,880
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh
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 lead and work as part of a design team supporting a core product area within Experience Design. They will give guidance to partners, development teams and other Interaction Designers, working alongside and leading a design team. They will take full ownership of their output, providing rationale for design decisions and confidently present their work back to internal customers.
- Shape and implement experience strategy for the product area
- Having a deep understanding of customer needs, problems and expectations
- Understand goals and challenges in the context of business and engineering priorities
- Work with service designers to influence and develop the roadmap and overall product strategy
- Engage with leadership to understand objectives and opportunities aligned to good customer outcomes
- Provide leadership to a team of multi-disciplinary designers to support decision-making, delivery and team culture
- Establish a growth culture and build capabilities through the formal development and mentoring of team members
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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 8 years demonstrable experience within User Experience design/Interaction Design
- Experience of leading teams, inspiring, with the ability to rally teams and partners around ambitious goals
- Strong people negation skills
- Exceptional communicator, able to share ideas and successes in compelling, engaging ways.
- A strong strategic vision that aligns well to the overall business strategy
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.
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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
- 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready to make an impact? Apply today.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
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