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| # Designer | |
| - Location: mainly remote with occasional office and client visits | |
| - Offices: London, Bristol, Manchester, and Swansea | |
| - Salary: £29,750 - £42,500 with a London-weighting of £31,237 - £44,625 | |
| - SFIA: Level 3 | |
| Designers might already be a Product Designer, UX Designer, Service Designer or Interaction Designer. | |
| ## Summary | |
| 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. | |
| 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 | |
| ## Scope | |
| - Responsible to a Senior Designer for successfully designing and delivering good public services | |
| - 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 | |
| ## Practice | |
| - Knows how to turn team conversations and research into drawings and prototypes to create a shared understanding of problems to solve and ideas to test | |
| - Make things real by caring about content and interaction design enough to make sure everyone can use public services | |
| - Make public services simple to explain and understand by removing complexity and keeping designs focused on creating outcomes for people and society | |
| ## Leading teams | |
| - Assure the quality of design delivery within their team | |
| - Introduce good habits for sharing and improving design work | |
| ## Community | |
| - 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 | |
| ## 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 | |
| ## Work perks and benefits | |
| Take a look at the Benefits & Perks section of the [Made Tech Handbook](https://github.com/madetech/handbook) to see what we can offer you. | |
| ## Applying | |
| When we’re hiring for this role, you can see the details and apply at www.madetech.com/careers. If you have any questions about the role please email us at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). We’re happy to help! | |