About the Job:
SC Ventures is the company's innovation, fintech investment, and ventures arm. Established to reinvent banking in response to significant technological disruptions, we focus on creating unique ecosystems of innovators, banking experts, and business builders committed to scaling breakthrough ideas. Our main themes include Online Economy & Lifestyle, SMEs & World Trade, Digital Assets, and Sustainability & Inclusion.
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This role requires UI/UX and product design leadership with key responsibilities including:
UX/UI & Product Design Leadership:
- Own end-to-end experience design for digital products and platforms across the venture lifecycle (discovery to scale).
- Translate customer needs, business strategy, and technical constraints into intuitive, usable, and scalable design solutions.
- Define and maintain design standards, interaction patterns, and design systems across ventures.
- Ensure accessibility, usability, and consistency across web, mobile, and platform experiences.
- Act as a design authority, providing expert critique and guidance to improve design quality and coherence.
Innovation & Human-Centred Design Execution:
- Lead design-led discovery and innovation activities including user research, journey mapping, service design, and problem framing.
- Apply methodologies such as Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Jobs-to-Be-Done, and rapid experimentation to validate concepts.
- Support venture incubation by shaping value propositions, MVP definitions, and experimentation roadmaps.
- Facilitate design sprints, ideation sessions, and co-creation workshops.
Strategic Partnership & Stakeholder Influence:
- Act as a trusted design partner to venture CEOs, senior product managers, and the company's leadership.
- Influence strategic product decisions through insight, evidence, and design rationale.
- Balance customer needs, commercial objectives, regulatory considerations, and delivery constraints.
Delivery & Outcomes:
- Deliver high-quality design artifacts including wireframes, prototypes, UI designs, and interaction specifications.
- Partner closely with engineering and delivery teams for efficient implementation.
- Operate effectively across multiple ventures and prioritize based on strategic impact.
- Drive measurable improvements in usability, engagement, conversion, and time-to-market.
Qualifications:
- 10–15+ years’ experience in UX/UI design, product design, and innovation design.
- Strong expertise in UX research, interaction design, visual design, and prototyping (e.g., Figma).
- Proven track record designing complex, customer-facing digital products.
- Experience at Director-level influence without formal management experience.
- Understanding of agile product development and cross-functional delivery models.
- Ability to articulate design decisions to senior stakeholders.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary and benefits to support overall well-being.
- Retirement savings, medical and life insurance, and flexible benefits.
- Generous time-off policies, including annual leave and parental leave.
- Flexible working options based on home and office locations.
- Access to a market-leading digital well-being platform and other wellness supports.
- Opportunities for continuous learning and development within an inclusive and diverse organization.
