Investec is a distinctive Specialist Bank serving clients principally in the UK and South Africa. Our culture gives us our edge: we work hard to find colleagues who’ll think out of the ordinary and we put them in environments where they’ll flourish. We combine a flat structure with a focus on internal mobility. If you can bring an entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to learn and collaborate to your work, this could be the boost your career deserves.

About the role

You’ll be responsible for the end-to-end design and client experience for one or more products within our business banking digital platform. Working with a team of product, design and engineering specialists, you’ll take products from initial concept and research through to delivery for our users who range from sole traders through to the whole finance teams of large companies.

Our design team comes from a variety of backgrounds across product design, UX, visual design and research. Working with them, you’ll also contribute to the overall experience and design system, along with ensuring our platform works harmoniously as a part of the bank’s overall digital offering.

About you

We like hybrid designers who enjoy getting involved in multiple areas of product design, with a particular passion for one or two. It’s an added bonus if you’ve been a part of teams who’ve launched products to market. We’re flexible about what your experience is (across sector and product) and value diversity of thought and approach to push us to think differently

Description of role and key responsibilities

  • Develop a deep empathy and understanding for what, why and how our clients do what they do
  • Create high quality UX outputs for immediate sprint demands and future roadmap concepts
  • Drive client engagement by reducing cognitive load in flows and client journeys
  • Contribute to our global design system and community
  • Learn and experiment with new domains, new methodologies, the future of banking
  • As a small team, help shape our environment – bring your own passions, ideas and fun to the team
  • Work closely with product and engineering to drive product delivery and client outcomes at speed
  • Core skills and knowledge

  • Track record of working as a Product or UX designer across any domain
  • A keen learner. Ability to learn, unlearn, and learn again. We value this immensely
  • Diversity of background, thinking and experience. Our team has a variety of backgrounds and we need this diversity in order to be successful
  • Empathy to develop a genuine care for our clients; passion for giving them a great user experience
  • Desire to build great products in a fast-paced environment;
  • Comfortable working with uncertainty, with the ability to create structure and rigour at speed
  • Other attributes that would be helpful, but not essential for the role

  • FS experience is a nice to have, but not essential.
  • A curious, problem-solving mindset. Pride in your work and a hunger to succeed