Senior Interaction Designer - NPPV3 and SC

Senior Interaction Designer - NPPV3 and UK SC

Full-time

Come join us and make a difference in the world!

Location: UK - Remote or Hybrid, Subject to Location

Salary: Up to £55,000

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

Please note - You must be eligible for NPPV3 or SC for this role and be willing to go through the processes for these applications.

What we’re looking for:

We’re looking for a skilled practitioner with significant experience in delivering design projects. The focus of your role will be to create end-to-end, evidence-based designs for services & products which are inclusive, accessible and planet-friendly. You’ll often be working with multidisciplinary teams on complex projects where autonomy and project management will be important.

We’re on the hunt for someone who will champion our values: to care passionately, be fluent in people, believe in your craft, push convention, be open to change, value each other.

We work with a broad range of clients, some of whom are completely new to user-centred design (UCD). This means you’ll also play a key role in championing our UCD approach.

The role may also involve:

• Leading and directing projects – You’ll lead multidisciplinary teams and clients in the pursuit of inclusive, accessible and planet-friendly services.
• Team support and management – You’ll help to support the design team by inspiring and mentoring team members, including overseeing appraisals and professional development.
• Defining and refining practice – You’ll help to define the way our disciplines work together, and progress the way NEC Digital Studio does inclusive, sustainable design.
• Supporting new business – You’ll help NEC Digital Studio find and win work by spotting opportunities with clients and helping with proposals and pitches.
• Research – You work with user researchers and service designers as part of a multi-disciplinary team to create designs based on research that meet user needs. Experience in facilitating user research and usability testing is desirable.
• User-centred journeys & experiences – You choose the right approaches to lead projects to outcomes that are great for the user, feasible to implement, and fit the client’s strategic vision.
• Facilitation – Lead on design workshops and design sprints with the team, senior stakeholders and users
• Verbal Communication – You clearly explain complex problems and design decisions to non-design stakeholders, including risks and unresolved issues, and build consensus by asking difficult questions and challenging assumptions.
• Visual communication – You lead teams to make clear and compelling points through well-designed visuals. This may include drawing and sketching or graphic communication
• Written communication – You guide teams on the most appropriate written formats and structures for each project. You create and oversee clear, concise writing
• Accessibility awareness – Strong understanding of accessibility standards and can confidently help teams apply accessibility best practice across every project phase - WCAG 2.2 experience would be ideal.
• Design to development – Foster excellent working relationships between design and development teams, ensuring smooth delivery of software builds and testing.
• Stakeholder management – You know how to negotiate and guide clients and stakeholders towards positive outcomes that deliver within budget
• Proactive and autonomous – You can lead the conversation, and look for ways to participate and add value
• Iterative Design – You refine solutions through continuous feedback and testing, ensuring designs evolve in response to user needs, constraints, and business goals
• Evidence-Based Design – You ground design decisions in user research findings, using data and insights to validate approaches, reduce risk, and improve usability
• GDS Knowledge – You have experience in the GDS delivery approach including knowledge of the GDS design system, principles and service standard. It would be desirable for you to have had experience with service assessments.

We pride ourselves in offering an excellent benefits package, including an above average pension scheme. When you join the team at NEC Software Solutions, you are provided with the…