UI Designer - Design System

Job Description

UI Designer- Design System
Salary: From £37,000

Last year we completed our most comprehensive rebrand in over 30 years, resulting in an increased focus on our Design System product (NEL). We’re now on a hugely exciting and ambitious journey to evolve the Design System, systematically applying the new brand, and increasing the quality and adoption of the Design System to meet the needs of the organisation and all its digital products and services.

We’re looking for UI Designer to join our Design System team. This role will help us develop the Design System, creating and updating the foundational styles through to the complex patterns within the system. We need this person to work collaboratively with the Lead and Senior Designers in the team to deliver change within the system, resulting in a high-quality product for our designers, developers and ultimately for Nationwide customers.

We’re looking for a designer with an appreciation for Design Systems, someone who can demonstrate they understand the principles of system thinking, and with a keen an eye for UI system design. We’re also looking for someone that can easily collaborate with designers and developers, considering how proposed change may impact the wider design system product.

The Design System team is within the Digital department within the COO function. It supports the delivery of digital products across the whole organisation. Our Design System product is used in customer and colleague facing web platforms and ever expanding to support new audiences and technologies.

The Design System team is within the Digital department within the COO function. It supports the delivery of digital products across the whole organisation. Our Design System product is used in customer and colleague facing web platforms and ever expanding to support new audiences and technologies.

For this job you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, at one of our offices. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works.

This role can be based out of our Swindon, Northampton, Bournemouth or London office. There will be a requirement to visit our Swindon, Nationwide office occasionally for collaboration.

If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.

What you’ll be doing
You’ll be joining a team of designers and developers as the UI Designer within the team, working closely with the rest of the team to produce the highest quality, reusable UI components and supporting guidance.
You’ll be updating the Design System libraries and Design System site, used by designers and developers across the organisation, ensuring that they’re of the appropriate quality, and you’ll be working collaboratively with developers to ensure that changes to system components are delivered to the required specification.
Occasionally you’ll need to support other designers within Nationwide in their application of the Design System in their projects. This means you’ll need to be comfortable with working collaboratively with other designers, helping shape the experience of Nationwide’s products and services across a variety of platforms and channels.

About you

You’ll have a good level of experience working as a UI or Visual Designer within an agency or in-house design team, and working with a Design System product.
You’ll be passionate about the latest standards and trends in UI, UX, and system design.
You’ll have a good understanding of visual, interface, and interaction design practises, with the ability to use the appropriate methods, activities, and tools to create components, patterns and guidance.

You’ll have a good understanding of accessibility and a passion for designing accessible and inclusive experiences.

You’re able to share your ideas and thinking with others and be comfortable operating in a team focused on continual improvement and delivery.

You’ll possess the ability to bring ideas to life in different ways – we like to realise ideas at speed and have a culture that supports rapid and iterative creation.

Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.

Say it straight

- This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It’s also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.

Push for better

- This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.

Get it done

- This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.

We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you’re sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it’s a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.

The extras you’ll get
There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:
A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
Life assurance worth 8x your salary
A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
Gympass – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
Access to an annual performance related bonus
Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
25 days holiday, pro rata

What makes us different

Nationwide is the world’s largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK’s population. We’ve got the scale to compete with the big banks,

but we’re not a bank .

As a building society, we’re owned by our members – that’s our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose –

Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.

When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You’ll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You’ll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don’t have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.