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Made Tech wants to positively impact the country's future by using technology to improve society. We believe being design-led can create positive outcomes in the public sector through critical services enabled by technology. We’ve built a community of designers and researchers to support the public sector's growing demand for a design-led approach to service delivery. Senior Interaction Designers are specialists and practitioners across various design disciplines, including UX Design, Interaction Design, and Product Design. The role involves delivering positive outcomes in the public sector through a design-led approach and technology-enabled critical services.
Job Responsibility:
Responsible to a Lead Designer
Hands-on design to assure the successful design and delivery of public services through technology
Acts as a subject matter expert, facilitating the design process and communicating design decisions to teams and setting expectations with stakeholders
Takes an active role in the Service and Interaction Design community, leading on (as appropriate), developing, and sharing good practice
Actively supports retention, hiring, and team quality
Mentoring and coaching within the design community
Advocate for the Interaction Design practice internally and externally
Work is often self-initiated. Able to define an approach from first principles, and propose alternative ways to deliver
Fully responsible for meeting their objectives on an engagement
Contribute to overall design outcomes of an engagement
Understand the relationship between interaction and service design, other disciplines, and wider client organisational requirements
Defines what ‘good’ design looks like on an engagement, enabling and holding others to account for producing high quality outputs and deliverables
Establish milestones and have a significant role in the assignment of tasks and/or responsibilities. Makes decisions which impact the success of assigned work, i.e. results, deadlines and budget
Supports client collaboration throughout all stages of work. Ensures users’ needs are met consistently through each work stage
Comfortable with owning a problem and are committed to seeing it through to resolution
Actively look to deliver a positive outcome, even if they can’t personally do it
Always willing to learn and develop
Give feedback often
Understand that a balance of positive and constructive feedback is the most effective way to work
Comfortable having difficult conversation
Requirements:
Specialist and practitioner across various design disciplines including UX Design, Interaction Design, and Product Design
Able to develop new and novel approaches to highly complex design challenges based on fundamental design principles
Expert practitioner in leading design tools including but not limited to Figma, the GOV.UK prototyping kit, and Adobe InDesign
Able to coach and mentor others, and define the interaction design standards which others will apply
Influences the organisation, clients, partners and peers on the contribution of interaction and service design
Develop a wide breadth of knowledge across the industry or business
Take the initiative and are fully responsible for their own outcomes
Highly accountable
Have a growth mindset
Candid-but-kind communicators
Create a shared understanding of problems to solve and ideas to test
Make things real through storytelling and uncovering the ‘why’
Caring about design enough to make sure everyone can use public services
Make use of the Made Tech playbooks where they exist and support their development
Make public services simple to explain, understand, and use by removing unnecessary complexity
Introduce good habits for sharing and improving design work into teams
Support the hiring and onboarding of designers (contract and permanent)
Help define Made Tech design principles through delivering effective public services
Represent and advocate for user-centred design publicly and internally
Build relationships with clients, earning their trust and understanding their needs
Support the commercial team to win new work by contributing and reviewing bids relating to UCD
Contribute to marketing materials (blogs, case studies, talks)
Client Focus
Drive to Deliver
Learning and Mentoring
One team
What we offer:
Flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan
Optional social and wellbeing calendar of events
30 days of paid annual leave plus bank holidays
Flexible Working Hours
Flexible Parental Leave
part time remote working for all our staff
Paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice