UI Designer/Product Development

Job description

About HSBC Corporate digital

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HSBC's goal is to reimagine banking and build world class banking services for consumers across the world. This means continuing to enhance a strong and secure brand that is willing and able to evolve in rapidly changing world. HSBC is undertaking a significant reshaping of its business portfolio to align with our ambitions, to capture future growth opportunities and to adapt to the changes in how we work and how our corporate customers choose to interact with us on a day-to-day basis.

Key criteria

Who we're looking for:

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The role of the Visual Designer is to contribute to the visual design activity to create ‘Best In Class' experiences for the corporate environment of HSBC. The job holder engages in all aspects of design activity from concept design work through to creating final designs and design deliverables for build.

What you'll do:

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You'll own the Visual Design for transactional digital products and services (like Business Internet Banking and Business Mobile Banking). This means working with HSBC Group stakeholders to take our digital brand forward.

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As a design practitioner, you'll take a hands on approach to working with product teams and stakeholders. You'll work directly with digital product leads to create experiences which deliver on client and business needs. You'll work with our agencies to adapt and develop our standards based on these experiences and to lead their work in delivery.

About the role:

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You'll have been developing responses to complex digital ecosystem problems for a minimum of 4 years. This could be within an agency, studio but equally an in-house progressive team.

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You will therefore have good experience and competency across of a wide range of design tools, design software, techniques, methodologies and processes - and know when to use them. You have broad experience across the full design spectrum.

Your key tasks and responsibilities will be to:

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Take a systematic and pragmatic approach to visual design.

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Manage design and brand stakeholders within Commercial Banking, Corporate & Institutional Digital and HSBC Group.

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Give clear direction to implementation teams to bring your designs to life.

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Eloquently and simply present, explain and justify design solutions and decisions to multidisciplinary teams.

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Build and manage relationships across the bank.

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Be an active, motivated and inspired member of the team.

Essential skills required:

· Minimum 4 years practical working experience
· Flair in visual design to create beautiful finished visuals within a very complicated and technical area, combined with an serious eye for detail
· Appreciation for layout, typography, colour and interaction within a technical landscape

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Understanding of design system thinking

· Strong communication skills
· Past working experience in a relevant position , i.e. proven financial services design experience

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Core skillset in interface design; not games/video/animation. Skills in animation, in relation to prototyping and mico-interactions are helpful added bonuses

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Experience of working on larger brand builds rather than smaller-scale or imaginary brands

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In-depth professional knowledge of Sketch

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Be able to lead and stimulate discussions about design concepts and approaches, demonstrating an ability to provide strong creative leadership.

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Give and receive critical feedback and praise.

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Understand the scope you are working to, define project activities, estimate effort and ask for help when needed.

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Can propose early design hypothesis as a starting point for collaborative iteration.

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Be aware of limits of knowledge and can self-challenge; open to counterbalancing input from others.

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Be self-taught, understand new things by trying them, doing them, building them.

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Seek out opportunities to learn from other disciplines.

About you:

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You are delightfully non-ego driven.

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You are full of energy and passion for what you do.

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You are constantly learning by teaching yourself and challenging your own and thinking.

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You make others around you better by consciously teaching and unconsciously inspiring.

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You have a strong work ethic, are well organised, can manage complexity across multiple projects.

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You have an eye for detail and ‘good enough' never is.

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You are an exceptional communicator.

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Desired profile

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