Visual Design Lead London, England
Job description
The Opportunity:
We are building a new strategic digital business backed by a Global Bank, with the ambition to become the next-generation global fintech solution, supporting the needs of internationally minded customers around the world. With a global footprint, they serve more than 50 million customers worldwide with a complete range of banking and wealth management services, enabling customers to manage their finances and protect and build their financial futures.
We are looking for ambitious and motivated individuals who are keen to embrace growth and tackle the impending challenges in this fast evolving industry. You should be passionate about approaching things differently, while operating like a fintech within a bank. We are not looking for superpowers - we are looking for knowledge, enthusiasm and the right attitude to deliver our global initiative in a lean way.
Purpose:
We’re looking for a Visual Design Lead for a new and exciting fintech product. The impact and remit of the role is huge, with lots of opportunity for future growth. You'll be responsible for overseeing and creating visual design assets across the company. You’ve a strong aesthetic sense, an intuitive understanding of brand and interface design, and are comfortable leading and mentoring other Visual Designers. You’re an ambassador within the company for the brand & will help us bring to life our unique value proposition.
What you will be doing:
- Execute all stages from concept to final hand-off and work cross-functionally with other teams, such as Design, Product, Growth, Engineering and Operations, to unique and compelling visual designs,
- Creates, oversees and leads visual design across all touch points, including social media channels, marketing campaigns, web, printed materials and areas of our mobile app.
- Proactively manage the pipeline of current and future assignments of their team members (ensuring clear sequence and delivery dates), as well as appropriate and feasible workload distribution and capacity of the team (including managing stakeholders expectations).
- Mentor a small design team, to give design direction and unblock issues to ensure high quality work is produced and delivered on time.
- Set a world leading quality bar for visual design, ensuring it stands strong within the competitive brand landscape.
- Act as a strong brand guardian, ensuring all visual design across the company aligns with our brand and design system.
- Establish, promote, and support design principles, best practices and accessibility standards.
What you’ll need:
- A well-crafted portfolio that demonstrates your experience in creating highly crafted visual design, across areas such as typography, illustration, animation, layout and working with photography.
- Visual design expertise demonstrated through design concepts, case studies, documentation, mockups and style guides.
- Experience with developing visual design systems for digital products.
- Innovative, user-centered visual design solutions.
- Experience in design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Illustrator, InVision, Adobe CC and Keynote.
- Good understanding of brand design and visual design, as well as marketing and brand experience.
- Able to work in a cross-functional environment and drive stakeholder alignment and communication.
- Experience designing for mobile apps or other interactive digital platforms.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity to drive the design cycle and multitask in a fast-paced environment.
Locations: Hybrid working. Office location can be London or Leeds.
HSBC is committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We are proud members of the Disability Confident Scheme, and will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you
