UX Designer

AMS is a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces. We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive in an ever-evolving world by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies.

Our Contingent Workforce Solutions (CWS) is one of our service offerings. Acting as an extension of their recruitment teams, we connect them with skilled interim and temporary professionals, fostering workplaces where everyone can contribute and succeed.

Our client, a major UK retail bank, provides every day banking services to over 17 million retail customers. The banks expertise and services span across Business Services, Corporate banking, Wealth Management, Group Functions, Retail and Investment Banking.

On behalf of this organisation, AMS are looking for a UX Designer for a 12 month contract based in London with remote work available (hybrid)

Purpose of the role:

• To work within the cross functional design teams to deliver best in class solutions for the clients digital projects, pushing the usability and market success of new and current products, enabling the client to fulfil business objectives.

What you'll do:

• Responsible for product design across the portfolio, providing a strategic approach with end-to-end design thinking.
• Produce journey maps, UX wireframes, hi-fidelity UI and prototypes to effectively communicate design ideas to obtain stakeholder buy-in.
• Manage and lead workshops, craft reports and contribute to playback sessions with multiple stakeholders.
• Collaborate with colleagues to develop and meet the required standards through peer reviews and knowledge sharing and be a leader in Human Centred Design best practice.
• Lead the design thinking in your projects, including new ways of working, new user research techniques and new products within the Fintech innovation space to provide high quality designs to meet the needs of our customers and the business.
• Run and manage ideation, brainstorming and critic workshops with multiple stakeholders.
• Assist with and build on the design system of the projects in which the team are involved.
• Work closely with engineering, product, and business teams to find elegant but practical solutions to design challenges that appeal to customers.
• Set the vision for the user experience and creating the space for others to collaborate.
• Rapidly produce multiple concepts and prototypes.
• Demonstrate your strategic and user Experience (UX) thinking to problem solve and translate customer insights into designed experiences.

The skills you'll need:

• Experience of delivering customer focused designs, ideally including native mobile design.
• Experience in launching customer focused digital products.
• Experience of developing customer facing digital applications and products.
• Wireframing & Prototyping - Figma.
• Experience with user research methods and usability testing.
• Ability to create wireframes, prototypes, and interaction flows.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Portfolio showcasing UX case studies and problem-solving.
• UX Accessibility - nice to have
• UX User Zoom Testing - nice to have.

Next steps

This client will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella or PAYE engagement model.

If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and we will contact you with an update in due course.

AMS, a Recruitment Process Outsourcing Company, may in the delivery of some of its services be deemed to operate as an Employment Agency or an Employment Business