Senior UX Designer

**Senior UX Designer**
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**AUC12009**
- Are you a passionate Senior UX Designer looking for your next role?
- We offer great banking benefits + 10% superannuation over your base salary
- Based in Auckland with flexible working options (home and office)

**Mō te Tūranga - About the Role**

User experience (UX) is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful journeys that our customers’ love. We strive to learn and understand our customers’ needs, behaviours, and emotions to yield insights that inform product strategy and guide the design of the digital experiences we create.

We have an amazing opportunity to skyrocket our mobile app experience to the next level and we're looking for an experienced and passionate Senior User Experience Designer to join Experience Design (XD). Specifically, we need someone who can create visually stunning designs and turn them into UI patterns that can be reused throughout our mobile app. It is essential that you have a strong understanding of the design system and can contribute to its development, ensuring consistency and scalability across all our digital products.

You'll use data, research, insight, and empathy to understand customer problems. You'll take concepts from whiteboard sketches and post-it notes and interpret them into scalable, delightful interactions all the way through to production. You'll work with other customer research, user experience and service designers to simplify interactions and create experiences our customers love.

**Ōu Pūkenga - About You**
- A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent training in design, human-computer interaction, or equivalent practical experience.
- Significant experience in similar roles with demonstrated hands-on experience in User Experience or Interactive Experience Design.
- Good understanding of Web Accessibility Guidelines.
- Strong working knowledge of design workflow utilising Figma & Sketch
- Ideally, you’ll have experience gained in large, complex organisations leading and delivering projects.
- A portfolio or samples and/or case studies of work, demonstrating relevant experience and your process.
- In-depth knowledge of iOS and Android design guidelines and principles.
- Strong stakeholder management skills to guide individuals to fast and effective outcomes.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

**Westpac Hei Wāhi Mahi - Working at Westpac**

We support flexibility, career advancement, and we’re passionate about people and take pride in building teams that reflect the diversity in our communities. You’ll be offered some of the best banking, wealth and insurance benefits in the market. These include:

- We offer flexible working arrangements (home & office)
- Banking benefits and discounts
- Generous parental leave - and top up government paid parental leave
- School holiday subsidy - help you balance work and family during school holidays.
- Career growth - we promote internal capability; we have programmes that recognise star performers.
- Market leading superannuation and KiwiSaver options
- Environmental and community care programmes
- Staff matching gifts - matching your donations to charities

**Ko mātou tēnei | Our Organisation**

At Westpac New Zealand, our purpose is to help New Zealanders succeed by igniting financial possibilities for our customers, our communities, and for the whole country.

What makes us unique are the people we’re lucky enough to have walk through our doors every day. The giant ‘W’ on our building doesn’t just stand for Westpac - it says, double you. Because we’re a place that values, rewards and recognises individuality. After 160 years of making New Zealand greater, our purpose remains the same - to help New Zealanders succeed. Our greatness comes from our difference, which is why we aspire to create a workplace where you can bring your whole self, your true self, and your best self. We’re recognised as a place where talent is developed, where passions are fuelled and where ambitions of all shapes and sizes thrive. And it all starts with you

The people of Aotearoa, New Zealand hail from many cultures and backgrounds. At Westpac New Zealand, we draw on this enormous talent pool to cultivate a team rich in ability and empowered to reach its full potential. Our aim is to be brave challengers, celebrating our differences and relentlessly advocating for our customers. It starts with us - we believe that when we care deeply and do our best for our people, they’ll do their best for our customers. We encourage people from all walks of life to apply, including those who are neurodiverse, have chronic health conditions or disabilities - your attitude and passion are as important to us as your experience, qualifications and capabilities.

**Mahi tahi tātou, kaha ake tātou | Together Greater**

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**Primary Location***: AKL-Auckland City and Fringe

**Other Locations***: New Zeala