Designers

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 have built a community of designers and researchers to support the public sector's growing demand for a design-led approach to service delivery.

Senior Designers at Made Tech are senior specialists in their design discipline(s). In this case, we are looking for an expert practitioner in Interaction and Service Design who is able to coach, mentor and supervise other designers within the Interaction and Service Design discipline at Made Tech. Success in this role means guiding the work of other designers within the Interaction and Service Design disciplines to deliver positive outcomes.

• Responsible to the Lead Interaction and Service Designer
• Hands-on design for products and teams to assure the successful design and delivery of public services through technology.
• Acts as an interaction-and-service-design 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 and line management of other designers.

• 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.

• Introduce good habits for sharing and improving design work into teams.

• People management of designers (as appropriate)
• 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).

• 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
• Ensure your team members (direct reports and account team members) feel fully supported and engaged - provision of regular 1:1s, an effective cascade of information and progression of development plans.

• 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.

• Able to develop new and novel approaches to highly complex design challenges, based on fundamental interaction and service design principles.
• Advocate for the Interaction and Service Design practice internally and externally.
• Able to coach and mentor others, and define the interaction and service 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 objectives on an engagement.
• Contributes to overall interaction and service design outcomes of engagement
• Understand the relationship between interaction and service design, other disciplines, and wider client organisational requirements.
• Defines what 'good' interaction and service 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
• 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 conversations

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 have 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 are 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 - £55,000 / year

Join us in our mission to use technology to improve society for everyone.

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 will 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 45 - 60 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.