Digital Design Lead

Salary:

London: circa £120,000

National: circa £90,000

Aviva's User-Centred Design (UCD) team within Customer & Marketing is looking for a new Digital Design Manager to partner with the Insurance, Wealth, Retirement (IWR) business.

This is a great job for an experienced Design Leader to join Aviva’s UCD team, who has experience of leading a design team within a large organisation. Someone with a practitioner background who has moved on to design leadership, working with designers as well as complex stakeholder sets to deliver brilliant digital design.

A bit about the job:

In this role, you would be partnering between all UCD functions (product design, research, accessibility, optimisation testing & content design), the IWR Digital Product team and wider IWR business to ensure we're delivering fantastic customer, business & design outcomes, whilst managing a team of Product Designers working across a range of projects to ensure brilliant design, customer focus, consistency and strategic alignment e.g. running design crits, show & tells.

You would also be utilising strong practitioner skills to support & coach your team, e.g. Figma, double diamond methodologies, accessibility, analytics, and ensuring your team of product designers are fully funded and utilised appropriately to maximise business and customer outcomes.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Having a fantastic knowledge of UCD practices and helping teams deliver leading digital experiences.
• Managing & coaching product designers.
• Building relationships within and external to the team.
• Having a great attention to detail and able to efficiently manage a team within a large complex organisation.

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary circa £120,000 (London) / circa £90,000 (National) (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity – 12% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Alannah Burgess a call on 07391381173 or send an email to alannah.burgess1@aviva.com.