Designer

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
• Influences the organisation, clients, partners and peers on the contribution of interaction and service design.

Contributing to teams

• Assure the quality of design delivery within their team
• Introduce good habits for sharing and improving design work
• Contribute to a design studio culture at Made Tech and client offices

Key Responsibilities

Practice

• 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.
• Develop a wide breadth of knowledge across the industry or business.

Community

• Take part occasionally in the hiring of designers and researchers
• Help define Made Tech design principles through delivering good public services

Key measures

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

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 counseling we offer paid counseling as well as financial and legal advice
• If successful, you will be required to undertake an SC clearance

Compensation

£38,000 - £42,000 / year