Visual Designer - 6 Months FTC
Posted 5 days ago by Lloyds Banking Group
£58,970 Per year
Inside
Hybrid
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary: The Visual Designer role is a 6-month fixed-term contract based in Edinburgh, focusing on creating engaging digital experiences through visual storytelling. The position requires a candidate with around four years of experience and a strong portfolio, who will work within a team to solve customer problems and enhance user interfaces. The role emphasizes collaboration and creativity, utilizing tools like Figma and Adobe Creative Suite. The company promotes diversity and offers flexible working arrangements to support employees' needs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Create engaging digital experiences.
- Apply creative thinking to solve complex problems.
- Design interfaces for web and mobile applications.
- Contribute to and work with a digital design system.
- Design and layout pages and User Interfaces using a central design system.
- Use prototyping software (Figma) and Adobe Creative Suite to bring designs to life.
Key Skills:
- Strong portfolio demonstrating visual design skills.
- Experience in solving visual design challenges.
- Familiarity with digital design systems.
- Ability to experiment with AI tools for design and prototyping.
- Attention to detail and enthusiasm for visual design.
Salary (Rate): £58,970 yearly
City: Edinburgh
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
JOB TITLE: Visual Designer - 6 Month FTC
SALARY: £ 53,073- £58,970
LOCATION: Edinburgh
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN : Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.
Who we're looking for
We're looking for someone to help bring our digital experiences to life. You'll do this by communicating visually and engaging with customers through storytelling. We're looking for someone in the early stages of their career, with around four years of experience, who can demonstrate their skills through a strong portfolio.
About the Role
We're looking for a Visual Designer to work within our Experience Design team of designers, researchers and strategists. You'll help identify and solve real customer problems and ensure that we put humans needs at the heart of every problem we solve.
What you'll be doing
- Create engaging digital experiences
- Apply your creative thinking to solve complex problems and make them seem simple
- Make seemingly mundane things interesting and exciting
- Create engaging digital experiences, design interfaces for web and mobile applications
- Experience working with and contribute to our digital design system
- Design and layout pages and User Interfaces, skilfully and creatively using components from a central design system to figure out the right balance of content and UI (User Interface) elements on screen.
- Bring your designs and presentations to life with prototyping software (Figma is our main tool, experience is required) as well Adobe Creative suite and Microsoft tools like, Powerpoint, Excel, Acrobat.
Why join us?
From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we're looking for colleagues who are up for the challenge, who love to push boundaries and can make change happen. Sound like you?
What we're looking for?
- A keen eye for detail
- Experience in solving visual design challenges
- Experience working with and contribute to a digital design system.
- Actively experimenting design using AI tools to design and prototype idea rapidly.
- Tons of energy and enthusiasm to bring visual design to where it's needed
We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.
This is a place for you: Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. 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. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
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
- 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready for a career where you'll learn and thrive? Apply today and find out more.