Design System Designer

This is an excellent opportunity to experience working on a multi-brand Design System at scale. Our Design System currently supports eight brands, serves hundreds of designers and thousands of engineers, to create experiences for millions of customers. You will be joining an exceptional multi-disciplinary central Design System team and responsible for designing styles, components and patterns that make up digital user interfaces for all LBG brands. Whether it's contributing to workshops, advising on best practice or responding to research, you should be a design advocate and understand how to apply design principles to make accessible customer experiences. As a Design System designer, you will be involved in the following: Product:

• Help to create, maintain and manage a multi-brand design system.
• Work with a multi-disciplinary team to take components and patterns from concept, through design to documentation and code.
• Take part in product design reviews from a usability, brand consistency and accessibility perspective.
• Advocate and provide support for LBG design libraries to the engineering and design communities.
• Help drive design system adoption across the group.
Team:
• Seek opportunities to improve design system workflows.
• Pursue and engage in opportunities for own personal development.
Brand:
• Help evolve the digital brand across platforms and devices.
• Champion the customer and ensure LBG products and services meet their needs.
  
  Advanced competency with Figma. You must be able to demonstrate component construction using variables or Design Tokens and effectively communicate your process.
• Demonstratable interest and focus on digital accessibility
• Good technical understanding of designing for digital experiences.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with other design disciplines, writers, and engineers.
Desirable:
• Real-world experience of maintaining and distributing Figma libraries.
• Experience of working in a dedicated design system team.
• Although there is no requirement to be able to write code, some understanding of, or a willingness to learn about, core web technologies (HTML, CSS) and component API design would be beneficial.
  
  Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's leading bank with over 30m customers and its biggest digital bank, with over 18 million active online customers. We've placed an ambitious transformation programme and a multi-channel approach to banking at the heart of our strategy to be the best bank for customers, backed by significant investment in our platforms and people over the next three years., At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. 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. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. 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