
Designer
Job Description
Designer
Department: Strategy & Design
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Any UK Office Hub (Bristol / London / Manchester / Swansea)
Compensation: £38,000 - £42,000 / year
Description
Designers are experienced practitioners who collaborate with others to tackle challenges faced by people and society. They work within a team to design and deliver public services. They do this by influencing the direction, assuring the quality of design delivery within their team and by leading the end-to-end design of a chosen service. They are active members of a healthy user-centred design (UCD) community and culture at Made Tech.
Key Responsibilities
- Hands-on design for one product/team
- Acts as the design subject matter expert on a product team, facilitating the design process and communicating design 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
- Contributes to communities of practice, discussing and sharing suggestions, approaches and ideas - including proactively seeking feedback on own work
- 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.
- Assure the quality of design delivery within their team
- Introduce good habits for sharing and improving design work
- Take part occasionally in the hiring of designers and researchers
- Help define Made Tech design principles through delivering good public services
- Contribute to a design studio culture at Made Tech and client offices
- Delivery of good public services for users with clients
Competencies
- Client focus
- Drive to deliver
- Learning and mentoring
- Experienced in their profession
- Facilitation
- Thinking through making
Job Benefits
Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below:
30 days Holiday - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave plus bank holidays
Paid counseling - we offer paid counseling as well as financial and legal advice