Customer Journey Expert - UX Researcher/Designer

ING provides banking services and complex financing solutions to companies globally. To provide a safe banking environment for our customers, ING must comply with global Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations including maintaining robust Know Your Customer (KYC) controls. All KYC related domains work closely together to form the Global Financial Crime & Fraud Prevention (FCFP) organisation, to further the effective and efficient management of ING’s Financial Economic Crime (FEC) risks by establishing shared standardized guidance, technology, and operational processing.

The Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and KYC Control domain ensures that ING has a state-of-the-art CDD practice in place, that adeptly manages both CDD risk & operations as well as overall KYC risk for Retail & Wholesale banking across countries. This includes defining the CDD Target Operating Model, comprising all AML/ KYC related policies and implementing it as a global standard across the world and conducting oversight of bank wide CDD business as usual (BAU) activities, including operational execution across Retail and Wholesale (service ownership).

Purpose of the job

Within the WB FCP Transformation team we are looking for a colleague in the role of “UX Researcher/Designer” working closely with the Strategic Tooling lead in analysing the user-friendliness and effectiveness of different tooling, applications and processes in collaboration with Product Owners, Customer Journey Experts, UX/UI designers and process experts.

Your key responsibilities

As a UX Researcher/Designer you:

• Are responsible for analysis – and effective, and employee friendly application of tooling and processes.
• Will be using journey analysis incl. contextual research.
• Utilize and evaluate UX researching: functionality validation and user feedback (quantitative and qualitative).
• Develop and responsible for UX design for user journeys i.e. service design / blueprinting.
• Act upon rapid prototyping of UI wireframes.
• Continuously evaluate and improve existing products, applications, and tools to enhance the overall user experience.
• Are a proactive user advocate through thorough understanding of journeys and contexts.
• Apply effective communication and work closely with Product Owners, Customer Journey Experts, UX/UI designers of different tooling and processes.

We are looking for

Besides the qualities that are described in ING’s Orange Code, you are an inspiring, approachable candidate and pioneer of the cross-border culture, displaying the following behaviours:

• Ability to take responsibility to increase the customer & employee experience and WB CDD process performance by applying customer journeys based on facts and data.
• Ensure compliance with ING’s policies and standards.
• Managerial courage to question colleagues across the value chain.
• Ability to think out of the box and drive innovation.
• Excellent user research skills, with the ability to conduct interviews, surveys, and usability testing.
• Focus on delivery through collaboration, ability to bring people together to work towards the same purpose. You like to connect people and clear communication is a matter-of-course for you.
• Strong resilience; ability to navigate through ambiguity and simplify complexity without losing essence.
• You get energy from working on concrete and tangible results in a complex and continuously changing environment.

Proven track record and skills required

• You have an academic or master’s degree.
• Over 3-6 years of a proven track record at working with customers and designing customer journeys or in CDD operations.
• Experience in guiding and realising change in international roles.
• Personality and the capabilities to optimally function within an Agile environment.
• Analytically strong and make decisions based on data and facts, with a user-centric mindset.
• Creative, innovative and strategic thinker with an eye for detail.
• Communicative and organisational strong, you actively ask for feedback, but you also give constructive feedback on the work of others.
• You know how to manage various stakeholders and are organisation-sensitive.
• You are curious, have a clear vision of your field and the ambition to continue to develop yourself professionally as well as personally.
• Profound knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint.
• Fluent in English.

Wage (gross)

• 4 100 EUR/month
• *By legal requirement we are providing the information about the basic wage component (minimum salary) for the advertised position. Based on your experience/profile, the final financial conditions will be the subject to discuss and negotiate at the personal interview, however, not less than above mentioned minimum salary component.