The Role Responsibilities
Key responsibilities
Standard Chartered has announced ambitious targets to reach net-zero carbon emissions from its financed activity by 2050, including interim 2030 targets for the most carbon-intensive sectors. The Bank has also announced plans to mobilise USD300 billion in green and transition finance by 2030.
The market has seen a significant proliferation of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) data, reflecting a growing focus on sustainability in business decision-making. The need for improved climate data, biodiversity information, and social metrics etc. is paramount for informed business strategies. Additionally, the landscape is rapidly evolving with increasing regulatory and voluntary sustainability reporting requirements, highlighting the need for expertise in ESG data analysis and compliance.
We are seeking a passionate and innovative UX Designer to join our team, focusing on projects supporting sustainability and sustainable finance. This role is ideal for a candidate with a strong experience in building products from scratch with passion to make an impact. The UX Designer will be instrumental in creating user-centered designs that not only deliver exceptional user experiences and also making an impact in our sustainability operationalisation agenda including sustainability assessment, monitoring and simulation to achieve Net Zero, reduce greenwashing and increase sustainable finance revenue.
Business
· Conduct thorough research to understand user needs, behaviours, and pain points related to ESG initiatives. Analyse data and feedback to inform design decisions.
· Design and implement user-centric solutions for sustainable projects, ensuring a balance between user needs and our environmental objectives.
· Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions for product direction, visuals, and experience.
· Conduct user research and evaluate user feedback to enhance usability and sustainability aspects of the product.
· Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows, and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
· Develop prototypes that clearly illustrate the function and look.
· Plan and conduct usability testing sessions to validate design concepts and gather user feedback. Iterate on designs based on test results and stakeholder inputs
· Create design documentation, including design specifications, style guides, and design system components. Maintain consistency and coherence across digital platforms.
· Present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive-level stakeholders.
· Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices, and standards focused on sustainability.
· Stay up-to-date with the latest UX trends, techniques, and technologies, especially those related to sustainable design practices.
Regulatory & Business Conduct
· Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
· Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
· Support the Sustainable finance enablement team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles. Fair Outcomes for Clients; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.
· Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key stakeholders
· Sustainability UI developers
· Sustainability Product Owners
· Business stakeholders across CSO, business and functions
Our Ideal Candidate
· Track record of managing multiple projects with a degree of autonomy.
· Bachelor’s degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or a related field.
· 3 + Years of Proven UX design experience, preferably in a start-up environment, with a strong portfolio showcasing your work.
· Experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, and process flows.
· Proficiency in sigma design or other visual design and wire-framing tools.
· Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction.
· Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively.
· Up to date with the latest UX trends, techniques, and technologies.
· Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
· Strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders.
· Knowledge and experience in sustainable design practices are highly advantageous.
Role Specific Technical Competencies
· User Experience Design
· User Interface Design
· Application Design, Architecture
· Requirements Analysis
· System Testing
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. Together we:
· Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
· Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
· Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
· Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
· Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
· Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
· Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
· A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
· Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.
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