Visual Designer (12-Month FTC)

Job Details

JOB TITLE: Visual Designer (12 Month FTC)

SALARY: £61,344 - £68,160

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS: 35 Hours, Full Time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid; at least two days per week (or 40% of time) at an office site. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

Responsibilities

We’re looking for a passionate Visual Designer to raise the quality bar and bring our digital experiences to life for our customers.

• Own and deliver the visual design of our Digital Cards and Wallets experiences, while engaging with customers through rich storytelling.
• Collaborate with the Experience Design team of interaction designers, researchers, content writers and strategists, working confidently as part of agile teams to uncover priorities, visualise outcomes, and define scope.
• Identify and solve real customer problems, putting human needs at the heart of every problem we solve.
• Provide visual direction and support in raising the quality of the mobile application to bring delight and joy.
• Apply creative thinking to solve complex problems and make them simple.
• Produce design production assets, infographics, logos and other elements.
• Design engaging digital experiences and interfaces for web and mobile applications.
• Design and layout pages and User Interfaces, skilfully and creatively using components from a central design system to balance content and UI elements on screen.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7–10 years experience as a Visual Designer, driving delivery and raising visual design quality for a product.
• Proficiency with prototyping software, specifically Figma (required).
• Experience with the Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft tools such as PowerPoint, Excel, Acrobat.
• Experience solving visual design challenges and delivering experience‑led brand digital journeys.
• Understanding and contributing to an existing digital Design System and advocating accessibility standards.
• Strong ability to see designs through delivery—communicating with developers to ensure designs meet specifications and can be used by a broad range of users of all backgrounds, ages and abilities.
• Ability to collaborate with a full‑stack design team, including Researchers, Content Designers, Service Designers and Interaction Designers.

Benefits

• 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
• Generous parental leave policies