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Job ID: 42178

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Corporate & Commercial Banking

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 17 Oct 2025

JOB SUMMARY

We are seeking a talented and driven UX Designer to join our Corporate Banking Customer Experience (CX) team. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of corporate banking, particularly around corporate Cash transaction services such as making and managing payments. Proficiency in Figma for prototyping and design is essential, as well as a strong grasp of design systems and design system governance. You should excel in both UX and UI design.

As a collaborative team player, you will work closely with distributed international teams to create innovative solutions and enhance user experiences. Additionally, you will support ideation sessions and innovation workshops to drive creative thinking and problem-solving. If you're passionate about delivering exceptional digital experiences in the financial sector and thrive in a dynamic, global environment, we'd love to hear from you.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

• Work with internal teams to obtain an in-depth understanding of our platform product suite and business priorities
• Go deep in researching and understanding our Platform services, products and users in close collaboration with our client research and insights team
• Produce high-quality UX based on client research and user testing data
• Create high fidelity prototypes using UI components from our component library
• Present these prototypes to senior leaders and be able to communicate clearly about the process and reasoning that went into the design
• Pro-actively engage stakeholders and collaboration partners to understand the products and business context, and to help them get onboard with your design solution proposals
• Pro-actively engage our team and our stakeholders to stay on top of your work and keep your momentum going

Business

Our team services the entire Corporate and Institutional Banking domain. This includes corporate banking and trading platforms, API developer platforms, and internal employee productivity tools and services. Your focus will be on Cash services, this means services that help users make, track and manage payments and self-help through digital services that you will support the design of.

Processes

You need to be familiar with the concepts of design language systems, component libraries, UX and UI best practices, and CX fundamentals. You must be able to structure your time and be capable of taking the initiative. You have exceptional English written and verbal communication skills, as well as a strong sense of empathy for our audience who utilize our products to drive their businesses. You're also a meticulous note taker with keen attention to detail.

You're a team player and coordinate with others to get things done. You're open to sharing and giving feedback, and are quick to help where needed. You're also familiar and comfortable working within constraints, and ready to learn about and practice what's required when working in a regulated environment.

People & Talent

• Maintain and evolve your capabilities

• Quickly learn and adapt to new situations.

• Have a desire to learn and grow.

Risk Management

Our team is responsible for delivering quality product and service design, meant to enable colleagues and clients to perform their work efficiently and effectively. In doing so, we must be careful with data management and play our part in ensuring we protect it and that our designs take this into consideration. Risk management is interwoven in our design activities and you will need to ensure that risk is always a consideration throughout your design process all the way to delivery.

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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Lead the CIB Design Team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for our CIB clients

Key Stakeholders

• Product Owners
• Technology Owners
• CX Design team
• Wider Bank design community

Our Ideal Candidate

• Hands on experience in building enterprise wide design system from initiation to delivery.
• 8 plus years of experience in producing UX and UI design, including interactive prototypes using Figma
• Experience working at financial institutions, including Fintechs, would be desirable
• Education equivalent to a Bachelor's in human/computer interaction, web development, computer science, graphic arts/digital design or other equivalent discipline
• You understand human centred design methodologies and usability testing
• Working knowledge of enterprise project methodology, and capable of working with product development team to manage business and technical requirements for documentation
• You also understand global diversity and the ability to advise on solutions that would cater to global audience.
• You have the ability and desire to keep challenging yourself and others with entrepreneurial attitude and passion for observing human behaviour, identifying team biases and surfacing these with grit.
• Familiarity with Information architecture and interaction design
• Experience in Agile and/or LEAN projects
• Good stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Strong influencing and communication skills – oral, written and presentation
• Strong understanding of visual elements, including the application of brand standards(Layout, Type, Fonts…)
• Knowledge of corporate banking concepts
• Ability to collaborate with engineers to help and guide them in translating design to code
• Ability to translate UI design into interactive prototypes

About Standard Chartered

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

What we offer

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.

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