Senior UX 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. This position involves re-architecting existing learning materials and applying user-centered design principles to create effective learning experiences. The designer will collaborate with senior stakeholders and lead UX design initiatives while contributing to the overall design strategy of high-profile HR projects. The role requires extensive experience in UX design, particularly in large corporate environments.

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, learning specialists, 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, with minimal supervision.
• Proven ability to work with senior stakeholders, influencing and aligning design strategies to business needs.
• 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).
• Experience working with Learning Lab or other digital learning platforms (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