Manager, Design Studio

We are seeking an experienced UI Designer with a keen eye for detail and a deep understanding of dashboard design to provide visually compelling and intuitive user interfaces for higher management. This role requires a designer who can understand the nuanced needs of our leadership team, translate complex data into insightful visualizations, and uphold UI best practices throughout the design process. Proficiency in Figma and Adobe XD is essential, alongside strong communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

•    Dashboard Design: Design user-friendly, data-driven dashboards tailored to the needs of higher management, ensuring clarity, functionality, and visual appeal.
•    UI Process Adherence: Apply UI principles and best practices meticulously from wireframes to final design, maintaining consistency across all design elements.
•    Tool Proficiency: Utilize Figma and Adobe XD effectively to create, update, and manage design assets, ensuring efficiency and collaboration.
•    Stakeholder Collaboration: Communicate effectively with product managers, developers, and stakeholders to understand requirements, present designs, and incorporate feedback.
•    User-Centric Approach: Prioritize user experience, considering accessibility, readability, and interaction to optimize interfaces for management’s decision-making needs.
•    Continuous Improvement: Stay updated with UI trends, tools, and best practices to continually elevate the quality and relevance of the dashboards.

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.
•    Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles 
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders
•    Internal stakeholders

•    Looking for a candidate with 8+ years of relevant experience in graphic design, visual aids, etc.
•    Banking / Global Business Services domain knowledge is good to have but not a necessity
•    Experience of running and managing large creative/design initiatives/teams
•    Excellent communication, presentation and documentation skills
•    Stakeholder management skills and project management skills
•    Expertise in MS office package and Adobe suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premier and After effects).

•    MS Office tools (PPT, Excel, Word)
•    Adobe Photoshop
•    Adobe Illustrator 
•    Adobe InDesign
•    Figma
•    Adobe Premier
•    Adobe Aftereffects 

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 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
• Are 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 leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months 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.