UX Designer

UX Designer

As a UX Designer in Digital Lending you carry multiple responsibilities, all contributing to the success of our product offering. It’s our job to ensure we design what's wanted, and it works well. As a UX designer, you are able to work on the crossroads of what is good for the end-user, the Financial Institute and Backbase business goals..

Together with the Product Manager and our expanding research team, you gather insights on features, flows or journeys. This is to get a clear understanding of what’s to be designed and start in the right direction. You’ll be intimate with the end-to-end experience of design objects and how those objects translate into business value.

Working from Krakow you’ll collaborate with the NL- and UK-based UX designers, all expanding your expertise in the Lending domain. From our renewed Krakow office, you’ll have the unique position to directly work with our development teams.

We have a great, creative culture in the Design team with almost 50 UI/UX Designers and Researchers working across the organization. We are looking for someone who brings creativity, passion, and experience to add to the credibility and adaptability of our UX.

What you'll do

• Focuses on medium complexity flows, journeys, within their domain;
• Leads design activity that interacts with multiple teams and disciplines;
• Prototypes solutions based on the Backbase Design System and best practices;
• Delivers implementable UX Design and coordinates delivery and quality assurance with development;
• Supports another (more senior) UX Designer in a Value Stream;

Works in a tightly scoped areas (squad, associated group of product capabilities or with clear team focus), where the problems are well defined;

• Is primarily focused on execution of a 3 month Product Plan but has direct input and knowledge of on the longer term roadmap which is collaborated upon with a more senior UX Designer;
• Contributes input towards UX Design planning and refinement sessions;
• Creates and contributes towards documentation in their team;
• Actively supports UX Research in preparing assets for the execution of user testing projects within their domain.

Who you are

You will create beautiful, interactive, validated, and user-tested experiences within Digital Lending. Alongside end-to-end UI/UX product design, you’ll be driving ideation, prototyping, user testing, and detailed design across the full lifecycle. So what we hope is that you...

• Like to work closely with Product Managers to get a good understanding of the roadmap and its content;
• Believe in the power of getting to know your users, and having UX Researchers by your side;
• Have a mindset for continuous improvement of UX by means of validation;
• Have a mindset that highly values collaboration with peers and other disciplines; 
• Love working with complex products, and have a hands-on mentality; 
• Are comfortable working in an open and direct work-arena, that’s continuously moving, expanding, and improving;
• Want to truly understand the matter and can design for complex/large datasets. 

And practically you have… 

• 2-4 Years of experience in UI/UX design for web and mobile applications;
• Experience in working with complex information-heavy products and interactions;
• Advanced theoretical knowledge with practical experience with one or more areas of UX / UI Design, Research and technology
• Educational formation in one of the following: UI component Design, Interactive Design, User Experience Design.
• Professional working proficiency in the English and local language

Are proficient in Figma;

• A strong, applied knowledge of Design System fundamentals and principles;

Experience working with User Testing and Research;

• A good knowledge of HTML and CSS;
• An excellent communicator, confident writer, and speaker (English essential);
• A strong, applied knowledge of Design System fundamentals and principles;
• Experience as a designer working in an Agile team environment throughout the lifecycle;
• Experience liaising with developers and QAs to ensure designs are built and delivered to design specifications;
• Ideally have worked in the Financial Services industry in some capacity
• Ideally involved in the lifecycle of a software implementation project
• Already based in Kraków
• Ready to come to the office twice per week
• A strong online portfolio demonstrating your work.

Please include the link in your resume. We love to see the entire end-to-end process of your work!