Join us as a Product Design Associate
- You’ll own the end‑to‑end product design process for small to medium‑scale projects, delivering user‑centred, inclusive outputs aligned to business and enterprise strategies
- You’ll define scope, approach and timelines for product design, then execute clearly defined tasks that balance user needs, business goals and technical constraints
- This is your chance to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to understand requirements, iterate outputs and support strategic initiative delivery, while growing your product design craft
- You'll work from home some of the time but be expected to be in the office one day per week
Our bank builds simple, accessible and inclusive experiences, and your expertise is key to bringing these to life. You’ll own product design for small to medium‑scale projects, so our outputs align with project objectives, business goals and experience design strategy. You’ll make project‑level product design decisions within defined authority, informed by insights, to deliver user‑centred, inclusive solutions.
You’ll balance creativity and innovation with brand alignment, accessibility and technical constraints while communicating decisions and rationale clearly to stakeholders. You’ll work collaboratively across disciplines to clarify objectives, sharing progress, manage risks and alignment issues, and escalate as needed.
Your work will focus on:
- Designing user experiences, information architecture and prototype outlines from end to end
- Consistently applying guidelines and standards, contributing to improvements that raise consistency, quality, accessibility and inclusion in product design
- Acting as a key contact for stakeholders to manage expectations, support understanding and influence decisions
- Contributing to larger plans by supporting the development of programme‑level design activities where required
- Continuously developing your skills and domain knowledge and supporting colleagues through feedback and best‑practice sharing
As our Product Design Associate, you’ll understand user‑centred design and have a good working knowledge of product design, design systems and accessible, inclusive design principles. You’ll have experience delivering high‑quality user flows, interfaces and prototypes informed and validated by user research, with a portfolio that shows engaging, user‑centred solutions and clear rationale. You’ll communicate clearly, explain design decisions with confidence, and engage and influence project stakeholders.
You’ll also bring:
- Demonstrable skills in design thinking, interface design, information architecture and prototyping
- Experience managing and delivering product design projects at pace using Agile delivery methods
- Ease in operating in multidisciplinary teams, collaborating with researchers, designers, developers and product managers to ship work that meets objectives
- Strong willingness to learn and develop product design skills through hands-on experience
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
23/10/2026Ways of Working:HybridSkills Required
- Working knowledge of user-centered design
- Working knowledge of product design and design systems
- Knowledge of accessible and inclusive design principles
- Experience delivering user flows, interfaces, and prototypes informed by user research
- Portfolio demonstrating engaging, user-centered solutions and clear design rationale
- Skills in design thinking, interface design, information architecture, and prototyping
- Experience managing and delivering product design projects using Agile methods
- Ability to collaborate in multidisciplinary teams with researchers, designers, developers, and product managers
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Willingness to learn and develop product design skills
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NatWest Group and has not been reviewed or approved by NatWest Group.
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
