UX Designer

Lloyds Bank plc; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - GBP 68,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK bank is looking for a UX/UI Designer to join their Manchester team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. You'll create innovative digital experiences while collaborating closely with other designers and engineers. The role requires strong skills in interaction design, prototyping, and ensuring accessibility standards. This hybrid position combines in-office work with flexibility in location, ensuring an inclusive work environment for all. Competitive salary package with various benefits included.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes

30 days' holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in crafting end-to-end user experiences.
• Familiarity with creating rapid prototypes.
• Ability to structure user flows and synthesize insights.

Responsibilities

• Create intuitive digital experiences in a team.
• Collaborate with designers and engineers.
• Conduct user testing sessions to refine designs.

Skills

Interaction Design & Design Systems

Prototyping & Interaction Experimentation

Information Architecture & Experience Mapping

Accessible & Inclusive Design

Product Thinking & Outcome Focus

Tools

Figma

Job description

**End Date**Sunday 22 February 2026**Salary Range**£61,344 - £68,160**Flexible Working Options**Hybrid Working, Job Share**Job Description Summary**Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s leading bank with over 30 million customers and its biggest digital bank, with over 20 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. We serve millions of customers every day, from individuals and families to large businesses and corporations. This means we’re well placed to help Britain prosper by shaping the way we spend, save, and borrow.**Job Description****JOB TITLE:** UX/UI Designer (12-Month FTC)**LOCATION:** Manchester **SALARY:** £59,850 - £66,500 **HOURS:** Full Time **DURATION:** 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract**WORKING PATTERN:** Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time in the Manchester office. Occasional travel to other group locations (e.g. Leeds, London, and Edinburgh), may be required. **About this opportunity** The UX/UI Designer creates intuitive, accessible digital experiences within a start-up style innovation team. Working from concept through MVP and scaling, they design interaction patterns, prototype solutions, and shape product experiences across multiple modalities — not just screens. **What You’ll Do*** Work in a technically focused environment, balancing complex outcomes with consumer needs.* Craft the end-to-end user experience, bringing together a cohesive journey step by step.* Bring designs to life through Figma and feel confident in running user testing sessions.* Balance business requirements with user needs, gathering user research and rationale to align stakeholders on individual user needs. You’ll know when to diplomatically push back, if necessary, to act on what’s right for the customer.* Be adaptable to the technical constraints of different platforms yet still be able to give guidance on creating the best possible end-user experience.* Advocate customer inclusion, ensuring designs are inclusive and accessible to customers of all ages, backgrounds, and technical abilities.* Collaborate closely with other designers, product owners, and engineers**What you'll need** Essential Skills/Experience:* **Interaction Design & Design Systems -** Builds scalable interfaces using design systems and designs across multiple modalities and interaction contexts.* **Prototyping & Interaction Experimentation -** Creates rapid prototypes and runs lightweight experiments to validate ideas and inform product direction.* **Information Architecture & Experience Mapping -** Structures user flows and journeys, synthesising insights — even in ambiguous or low-information environments.* **Accessible & Inclusive Design -** Applies accessibility standards from the outset and champions inclusive design practices.* **Product Thinking & Outcome Focus -** Balances user needs with product growth, value proposition thinking, and measurable experience outcomes.Desirable Skills/Experience:* Behavioural psychology and persuasive design* Visual and content design collaboration* Multi-disciplinary facilitation and critique leadership* User experience measurement frameworks (e.g., EBVI)* Mentoring and craft development**About the team** The Group Innovation team sits within the GCOO organisation and focuses on turning bold ideas into real, scalable outcomes. Working in a fast-paced, start-up like environment, the team rapidly explores and validates new opportunities by testing customer desirability, business viability, and technical feasibility. Through experimentation, design, and cross-functional collaboration, Group Innovation helps shape future propositions, unlock new growth areas, and bring cutting-edge concepts from idea to delivery. **About working for us** 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* 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies**Apply today and find out more!****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.**With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers.Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.