CreditOne UI/UX Design Lead

As a Barclays CreditOne UI/UX Design Lead, you’ll work within Credit Trading and report into the Global Head of Credit Electronic Strategy. This is an opportunity to be responsible to design the application architecture, workflows, user interactions and visual designs for trading systems, sales systems, and external client-facing systems within the Global Institutional Credit division at Barclays. Using your expertise in the practice of UI/UX, you’ll be an influential voice and strategic partner in the growth of this discipline at Barclays.

Salary / Rate Minimum: $140,000

Salary / Rate Maximum: $180,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any another type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.

Working Flexibly

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognizes and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Owning and implementing the UI/UX of a product, from ideation through to launch

• Developing high-level concepts, user flows, high fidelity designs (Figma), and clickable prototypes

• Building use cases, workflow, interactions and specification documents, as well as helping to establish and document design patterns

• Creating wireframes and graphical assets for development team

• Collaborating with the team, facilitating brainstorming and sketching exercises for ideation

• Delivering final design visuals and assets (Figma)

• Using prototyping tools (Figma) to fine-tune interactions and transitions

• Presenting and defending design work to stakeholders and cross-disciplined teams

What we’re looking for:

• Four-year College Degree as well as four or more years working in Institutional Finance, Wealth Management or Fintech, preferably within Trading, is required

• Substantial experience designing transactional products (i.e., e-commerce, banking, etc.) or applications using Figma

• Understanding of and extensive experience using HTML and CSS

• An online portfolio or samples of recent work (i.e., mockups, prototypes, specifications, guidelines)

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Ability to define key success metrics for projects, incorporating measurable business goals, revenue optimization, and client experience best practices

• HCI or design-related degree preferred, but not required; Agency experience as a User Experience Lead or Design Lead is a plus as well

• Passionate and enthusiastic about developing and evolving creative ideas, while also extremely detail-oriented, able to define ideas down to a specification level

• Experience working with the Agile methodology a plus, as well as the ability to establish new processes to maximize organizational efficiency

Where will you be working?

You will be working at our Americas Headquarters at 745 Seventh Avenue. This 32-story office tower is located in Times Square in the heart of Manhattan and features a cafeteria, fitness center and state-of-the-art LED signage on the facade of the building.

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 50 countries and employing around 83,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted. A career with us can offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience, and the chance to learn from some of the best minds in technology and finance.