Designer

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
  
  

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. 
• 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. 

Contributing to 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

Job Benefits