Made Tech aims to use technology to improve public services. Its Designers are experienced practitioners who work in teams to design and deliver those services, influence design direction and lead the end-to-end design of a chosen service. They're active members of Made Tech's user-centred design community.
What you'll be doing
- \"Hands-on design for one product/team\"
- Acting as the design subject matter expert on a product team, facilitating the design process and communicating decisions to the team and stakeholders
- \"Expected to find out potential problems, shape them, and conduct solutions\"
- \"Recognises when to ask for further guidance and support\"
- \"Work is reviewed with the occasional need for direction or implementation changes\"
- Contributing to communities of practice, sharing ideas and proactively seeking feedback on your own work
Practice
- \"Able to develop new and novel approaches to highly complex design challenges, based on fundamental design principles.\"
- Being an expert in leading design tools, such as Figma, the GOV.UK prototyping kit and Adobe InDesign
- Advocating for the interaction and service design practice, inside and outside the company
- Coaching and mentoring others and defining the interaction and service design standards they apply
- Influencing the organisation, clients, partners and peers on the value of interaction and service design
- Building broad knowledge across the industry or business
Contributing to teams
- Assuring the quality of design delivery within the team
- Introducing good habits for sharing and improving design work
Community
- Occasionally taking part in hiring designers and researchers
- Helping define Made Tech's design principles through delivering good public services
- Contributing to a design studio culture at Made Tech and client offices
Key measures
- Delivery of good public services for users with clients
What we're looking for
- Client focus
- Drive to deliver
- Learning and mentoring
- Experienced in their profession
- Facilitation
- Thinking through making
What's on offer
- Salary: £38,000 – £42,000 a year, permanent
- Flexible benefit platform, including a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to Work scheme and an individual allowance for a health care cash plan or pension plan
- Optional social and wellbeing events calendar
- 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays
- Flexible working hours
- Flexible parental leave
- Part-time remote working for all staff
- Paid counselling, plus financial and legal advice
Security clearance
If successful, you'll be required to undertake SC clearance, which requires five years' continuous UK residency.
Inclusion
Made Tech wants its team to represent the society that uses its services, and encourages people from underrepresented groups to apply. Reasonable adjustments are available during the application process.
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