Design System Visual Designer

JOB TITLE: Design System Visual Designer

GRADE: F

LOCATION: London

HOURS: Full-Time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time in our London office.

About the opportunity
Y ou will be joining a multi-disciplinary central Brand Operating System (Cancara OS) team and responsible for designing and managing styles, components and patterns that make up design system for all LBG brands.

Whether it's contributing to workshops, advising on best practice or responding to research, you should be a design advocate and understand how to apply design principles to make accessible customer experiences.

As a visual designer, you will involvement in the following:

Product:

• Help to create, maintain and manage a multi-brand, multi-platform design system.
• Work with a multi-disciplinary team to take components and patterns from concept, through design to documentation and code.
• Take part in product design reviews from a usability, brand consistency and accessibility perspective.
• Advocate and provide support for LBG design libraries to the engineering and design communities.
• Help drive design system adoption across the bank.

Team:

• Proactively seek opportunities to improve design system workflows and service and oversee other designer's proposals.
• Uncover emerging issues and needs. Identify potential causes, related issues, key stakeholders and barriers. Suggest and implement improvements to existing design and business practices.
• Coach and mentor designers throughout the organisation. Pursue and invest in opportunities for own personal development.

Brand:

• Help evolve the digital brand across platforms and devices.
• Champion the customer and ensure LBG products and services meet their needs.
  

What you'll need

Essential:

• Strong understanding of digital accessibility. Good knowledge of WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) 2.1 and aware of any forthcoming changes.
• Advanced competency with Figma. You must be able to demonstrate component construction using variants, auto-layout and effectively communicate your process.
• Good technical understanding of designing for digital experiences.
• An understanding of the culture and issues faced by developers, designers and content writers working in disparate teams.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with other design disciplines, writers, and engineers.
• Employ user-centric design methodologies and best practice research.

Desirable:

• Real-world experience of maintaining and distributing Figma libraries.
• Experience or working on a dedicated design system team.
• Although there is no requirement to be able to write code, some understanding of core web technologies (HTML, CSS) and component API design would be beneficial.
  

Key attributes:

Communicative creative curious intuitive passionate team spirited flexible organised inclusive

About Working For Us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

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 start growing with purpose?Apply today and let's create something extraordinary together!