Senior Interaction Designer
Job Description
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.
Key responsibilities
Scope
Responsible to a Lead Designer
Hands-on design to assure the successful design and delivery of public services through technology.
Acts as an 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.
Senior Designers at Made Tech are senior practitioners
Able to develop new and novel approaches to highly complex design challenges, based on fundamental design principles.
An expert practitioner in leading design tools, including but not limited to Figma, the GOV.UK prototyping kit, and Adobe InDesign.
Advocate for the Interaction Design practice internally and externally.
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
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.
Highly accountable
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
Have a growth mindset
Always willing to learn and develop
Candid-but-kind communicators
Give feedback often
Understand that a balance of positive and constructive feedback is the most effective way to work
Comfortable having difficult conversation
Skills, knowledge and expertise
Practice
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 and keeping designs focused on creating positive outcomes for people and society.
Teamwork
Introduce good habits for sharing and improving design work into teams.
Community
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
Commercial
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).
Key Measures
Case studies of how to design and deliver good public services and outcomes
Contributing to the growth and happiness of the UCD community at Made Tech
Deliver your project objectives on time and to the expected standard
Display the Made Tech values and behaviours reflected in feedback from colleagues and clients
Behaviours
Client Focus - a need to put the most compelling offer possible in front of the client
Drive to Deliver - able to take ownership of the response, pushing it through the business inside the timeframes that we have been given.
Learning and Mentoring - an appetite to grow fast and learn while passing on your own experience to your teams and colleagues
One team - contributing to the ongoing improvement of the function at Made Tech, sharing experiences and successes as well as learning points.
Job benefits
We are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale, as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. We've recently introduced a 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. We're also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should they choose to.
Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below:
30 days Holiday - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave plus bank holidays
Flexible Working Hours - we are flexible with what hours you work
Flexible Parental Leave - we offer flexible parental leave options
Remote Working - we offer part time remote working for all our staff
Paid counselling - we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice
If successful, you will be required to undertake an SC clearance
Location:
Any UK Office Hub (Bristol / London / Manchester / Swansea)
Department
Strategy & Design > Service & Interaction Design
Employment Type
Permanent
Workplace Type
Hybrid
Compensation
£50,000 - £60,000 / year
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How we hire
Our hiring process is designed to be thorough, transparent, and supportive, guiding candidates through each step. The exact process may vary slightly depending on the role but these are the typical steps candidates can expect.
We'll keep you updated throughout the process and provide helpful feedback at each stage. No matter the outcome, we make sure the feedback is useful and supportive, so you feel informed and can learn from the experience.
Our talent team will review all applications, and while we may use AI to help speed up the process, a real human will always make the final decisions. Once reviewed, shortlisted applicants will be invited to a screening.
This is a 25-30 minute call with someone in our talent team who is hiring for the role.
Once screenings have taken place the hiring manager will review the shortlist and invites to interview will be sent.
You may then be invited to an initial virtual interview which is usually with the hiring manager or a couple of members from the team. This is usually around minutes and the format may vary depending on the role.
If you progress, you'll be invited to a final stage interview which is usually with two members of the team. The format varies depending on the role and this is usually an hour.
Final conversation with one of our exec members.
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