Senior User Experience Designer

Summary: The Senior UX Designer (AVP) role at Barclays focuses on enhancing the user experience of internal learning and development tools within the HR function. The position involves leading UX design initiatives, collaborating with stakeholders, and applying user-centered design principles to improve learning materials. The role requires extensive experience in UX design and the ability to influence design strategies aligned with business needs. This is a hybrid position based in Glasgow, requiring three days in the office each week.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead UX design across existing learning materials, focusing on improving content structure, user journeys, and overall accessibility.
• Conduct user research, journey mapping, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing to create user-centered learning solutions.
• Review, audit, and redesign the structure and flow of learning materials in line with brand, accessibility, and compliance standards.
• Collaborate with senior HR stakeholders and business leaders to align on design approaches and influence learning design strategy.
• Work alongside a Product Manager within Agile frameworks to deliver high-quality solutions efficiently.
• Contribute to building UX and design thinking capability within the HR learning team.
• Operate effectively within a large corporate environment, managing internal governance and working across multi-disciplinary teams.

Key Skills:

• Extensive senior-level UX design or product design experience, ideally within large corporate environments.
• Strong expertise in end-to-end UX design, including research, journey mapping, wireframing, prototyping, and user testing.
• Experience leading large-scale design projects independently.
• Proven ability to work with senior stakeholders and influence design strategies.
• Background in re-architecting existing digital or learning products with a focus on usability and accessibility.
• Strong understanding of commercial design thinking applied to internal employee tools or learning environments.
• Good working knowledge of end-to-end learning design, including needs analysis and evaluation (desirable).
• Familiarity with learning and development frameworks, tools, and methodologies (desirable).
• Project management experience in a learning or HR context (desirable).

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Glasgow

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: IT