Innovation and Venture Designer
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About the Role
Standard Chartered's SC Ventures seeks a senior Innovation and Venture Designer to shape customer-centric digital experiences and drive venture validation. The role involves proposition shaping, prototyping, and product design using human-centered design and AI tools.
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Responsibilities
- Support shaping of bold, differentiated venture concepts grounded in emerging trends across AI, fintech, and digital business models.
- Apply strong commercial acumen and customer insight to focus efforts on high potential opportunity spaces and translate them into compelling venture hypotheses.
- Work closely with venture leads, technologists, investors, and senior stakeholders to develop and refine co created early stage venture ideas.
- Leverage AI augmentation and modern design tools to accelerate ideation, concept development, and early prototyping.
- Turn bold venture ideas into tangible prototypes that can be tested with real users and evaluated for seed investment.
- Run fast, hands on validation cycles to test assumptions, gather customer insight, and build robust evidence for investment decisions.
- Rapidly design, prototype, and iterate using modern tools including Figma and AI tools such as Claude.
- Translate complex ideas into clear, compelling narratives and artifacts that are simple, decision ready, and investment grade.
- Apply strong UX, service design, and prototyping craft to move from ambiguity to clarity at speed.
- Support ventures post seed by refining early stage product, user journeys, and experience design.
- Create prototypes and product concepts that bridge strategy, technology, and customer experience.
- Embed AI augmentation into product design to enhance user value, differentiation, and scalability.
Requirements
- 10+ years experience across facilitation, product design, product commercialisation, innovation design, UX/UI and/or consulting
- Experience working in AI augmented or automation rich product environments
- Ability to define intent, constraints, and evaluation criteria for AI generated outputs
- Strong systems thinking
- Proven track record designing complex, customer facing digital products at scale
- Strong expertise in UX research, interaction design, visual design, and prototyping (Claude Code/Cursor in addition to Figma)
- Experience operating at Director level influence without formal people management
- Strong understanding of agile product development and cross functional delivery models
- Ability to clearly articulate design decisions to senior, non design stakeholders
Full Job Posting
Job Summary
- SC Ventures is Standard Chartered’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm, established to reinvent banking.
- We are a unique ecosystem of innovators, banking experts, business builders and partners focused on rewiring the DNA in banking.
- We are building ecosystems around four high conviction themes: Online Economy & Lifestyle, SMEs & World Trade, Digital Assets, and Sustainability & Inclusion.
- We are a global team based in Singapore, Hong Kong, London, and the United Arab Emirates.
Key Responsibilities
- The Innovation and Venture Designer is a senior individual contributor at the forefront of shaping what banking can become next.
- Define, design, and deliver customer centric digital and service experiences across the SC Ventures portfolio.
- Apply human centred design and product design expertise to unlock better customer outcomes, accelerate venture validation, and strengthen product market fit.
- Carry Director level accountability, autonomy, and influence, working closely with venture CEOs, product leaders, engineers, and senior stakeholders.
Proposition Shaping
- Support the shaping of bold, differentiated venture concepts grounded in emerging trends across AI, fintech, and digital business models.
- Apply strong commercial acumen and customer insight to focus efforts on high potential opportunity spaces.
- Work closely with venture leads, technologists, investors, and senior stakeholders to develop and refine co created early stage venture ideas.
- Leverage AI augmentation and modern design tools to accelerate ideation, concept development, and early prototyping.
Proposition Validation
- Turn bold venture ideas into tangible prototypes that can be tested with real users and evaluated for seed investment.
- Run fast, hands on validation cycles to test assumptions, gather customer insight, and build robust evidence.
- Rapidly design, prototype, and iterate using modern tools including Figma and AI tools such as Claude.
- Translate complex ideas into clear, compelling narratives and artifacts that are simple, decision ready, and investment grade.
Product Design & Venture Build
- Apply strong UX, service design, and prototyping craft to move from ambiguity to clarity at speed.
- Support ventures post seed by refining early stage product, user journeys, and experience design.
- Create prototypes and product concepts that bridge strategy, technology, and customer experience.
- Embed AI augmentation into product design to enhance user value, differentiation, and scalability.
- Ensure alignment between customer needs, business viability, and technical feasibility across early stage product development.
Overall Mindset
- Be comfortable operating in zero to one environments, balancing creativity, speed, and rigour.
- Bring a solid understanding of fintech ecosystems and digital business models, with sound commercial judgment.
- Thrive in a fast moving, experimental environment where building, testing, and learning quickly matters most.
Skills And Experience
- Influence
- UX/UI Design
- Innovation
- Business Acumen
- Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
- 10+ years’ experience across facilitation, product design, product commercialisation, innovation design, UX/UI and/or consulting
- Experience working in AI augmented or automation rich product environments
- Ability to define intent, constraints, and evaluation criteria for AI generated outputs
- Strong systems thinking
- Proven track record designing complex, customer facing digital products at scale
- Strong expertise in UX research, interaction design, visual design, and prototyping (Claude Code/Cursor in addition to Figma)
- Experience operating at Director level influence without formal people management
- Strong understanding of agile product development and cross functional delivery models
- Ability to clearly articulate design decisions to senior, non design stakeholders
About Standard Chartered
- We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact.
- For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other.
- Our purpose: to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary and benefits to support mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
- Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance.
- Time off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days).
- Flexible working options based around home and office locations.
- Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, development courses, global Employee Assistance Programme.
- A continuous learning culture with opportunities to reskill and upskill.
- Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation.
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