At a Glance
- Tasks: Design innovative public services using technology and mentor fellow designers.
- Company: Join Made Tech, a design-led company making a positive impact on society.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Be part of a vibrant community focused on impactful design solutions.
- Why this job: Shape the future of public services and lead design initiatives that matter.
- Qualifications: Expertise in UX, Interaction, Product, and Service Design with mentoring skills.
The predicted salary is between 55000 - 60000 £ per year.
hackajob is collaborating with Made Tech to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.
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 Designers at Made Tech are senior specialists in their design discipline(s). In this case, we’re looking for a well-rounded, expert practitioner across a range of design disciplines, including UX Design, Interaction Design, Product Design, and Service Design who is also able to coach and mentor other designers within the Interaction and Service Design discipline at Made Tech. Success in this role means working as an expert practitioner to deliver positive outcomes.
Key responsibilities- 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.
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 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 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.
