Backbase is expanding. There is no doubt that we have the best possible solution in our niche market. But if you think that winning over clients comes by itself, think again. It’s a tough process.
Right now the Solutions Engineering team are looking for another Interaction Designer to join the growing team based in Amsterdam and we’re hoping it will be you!
What will you be doing?
As part of this team, you will be responsible for creating top quality UX and UI outputs across our products and proof of concepts, all the while driving design best practices throughout the team and wider business.
Products: the Backbase Platform caters for a wide range of clients - from retail banking to business banking, wealth management to insurance and beyond. Our product demos are crucial for us winning new business and so we place high importance on enhancing them with the latest trends in design and technology, whilst maintaining a sophisticated and modern overall, consistent brand. There is plenty of scope drive the UX, visuals, and style guides of these products, which makes this a particularly creative and important part to play in the sales team.
Proof of Concepts: further along the line of the sales funnel, we sometimes need to pull together small teams of developers and designers to create tailored implementations of our software in order to convince our clients that that we can handle anything they need us to handle. These proof of concepts are fast paced and exciting by nature, and require an experienced designer to come in and quickly identify and execute the best UX patterns and UI as part of a polished and impressive interface with which to blow our clients minds.
In addition to these main responsibilities, from time to time you may also be involved in other cool opportunities such as delivering UX workshops to clients, assisting the marketing team with design projects, providing mockups and other visuals for RFPs. You may also sometimes be required to travel.
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Why Backbase?
Whether or not you’ve heard of us, you and your friends have probably used some of the products we’ve created. Backbase accelerates the transformation of digital banking. From being a Dutch startup company five years ago, we are now an international market leader. Despite having a leading market position, we haven’t lost our startup mentality and we’re not done innovating just yet. Working in teams with highly talented and skilled professionals from all over the world, we share a drive to make things better, nicer, and more advanced. More than 400 specialists dedicate themselves to what we do best, which is transforming global financial services with inspiring, innovative solutions. At Backbase, we love to create outstanding experiences, not just for our customers and users, but for ourselves, and this is what motivates us to transform our industry by delivering our best work.
Backbase is a fast growing fintech software provider that empowers financial institutions to accelerate their digital transformation and effectively compete in a digital-first world.
We are the creators of the Backbase Omni-Channel Banking Platform, a state-of-the-art digital banking software solution that unifies data and functionality from traditional core systems and new fintech players into a seamless digital customer experience.
We give financials the speed and flexibility to create and manage seamless customer experiences across any device, and deliver measurable business results. We believe that superior digital experiences are essential to stay relevant, and our software enables financials to rapidly grow their digital business.
More than 80 large financials around the world have standardized on the Backbase platform to streamline their digital self-service and online sales operations across all digital touchpoints. Our customer base includes HSBC, ABN AMRO, Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays, CheBanca!, Credit Suisse, Fidelity, Hapoalim, HDFC, Hiscox, ING, KeyBank, Legal & General, NBAD, OTP, PZU, PostFinance, Societe Generale de Banque au Liban and Westpac.
Industry analysts Gartner, Forrester and Ovum recognize Backbase as an industry leader in terms of omni-channel banking platform capabilities, and award the company high marks for its deep focus on customer experience management and unparalleled speed of implementation. Forrester named us a leader in the Forrester Wave for Omni-Channel Banking and Ovum nominates Backbase as the market leading provider of next-generation digital channel banking platforms.
Backbase was founded in 2003, is privately funded, with headquarters in Amsterdam (HQ Global) and Atlanta (HQ Americas) and regional operations in London, Cardiff, Mumbai and Singapore.