UX / UI Designer | S2 | Retail & Business Banking

As the User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI) Designer, you'll lead within your team, research and analysis, support ideation, prototyping, stakeholder engagement, validation with end-users to facilitate a process of iterative design and continuous improvement as you build out the user journey. In this role you'll be working within a fast-paced environment and will be responsible for the end-to-end user-centred design process for projects that impact Retail Mortgage Customers. If you've got experience in a similar role, this could be the perfect opportunity to develop your career. The difference you'll make:

• Working directly with business stakeholders and product owners to fully understand requirements and facilitating team workshops and ideation sessions
• Utilising appropriate UX research methods to ensure solutions are validated with users
• Supporting the team, in an Agile environment, with the creation of user stories and acceptance criteria to ensure effective quality assurance of design assets and deliverables
• Creating and delivering pixel perfect UI screen designs
• Working with existing design layouts and element styles to create a consistent experience
• Using wireframes, prototypes, style guides to effectively communicate your design ideas to the wider team
  
  These are the essential requirements you need to be successful in this role:
• Practical knowledge of design tools such as, Figma, Sketch, Axure or similar
• Excellent communicator with the ability to influence team members, stakeholders, and the wider business
• Commercial UX experience using formal UX processes
• Portfolio with commercial examples to share (if unable to share, provide a walkthrough of relevant examples)
It would also be nice for you to have:
• Experience and knowledge of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1)
• Front end knowledge of HTML and CSS
  
  This role is based in Milton Keynes. It is a fixed term-contract until 30th July 2026.
We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles). If you apply for this role in this location, it's important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location. We're happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process. If you're interested in this role but with part time hours or a job-share we would still love to hear from you and discuss these. Inclusion At Santander we're creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair. How we'll reward you. As well as a salary, we offer a wide range of benefits that you can choose from and tailor to your needs. For contract roles, your salary, bonus (where eligible) and certain benefits will be prorated to reflect your contract duration.
• £500 annual cash allowance to spend on our great range of benefits.
• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don't contribute yourself. We'll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.
• 27 days' holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 28 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.
• Free access to a range of digital health services, including GP.
• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.
• 24/7 access to an online employee discount platform including retailers, entertainment, eating out, travel and more.
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates. Including: medical insurance, dental insurance, and health assessments.
• Share in Santander's success by saving or investing in our share plans.
• Support your favourite causes through charitable giving and our community partnerships.
• As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services.