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Associate Designer

  • Location: mainly remote with occasional office and client visits
  • Offices: London, Bristol, Manchester, and Swansea
  • Salary: £23,587 - £38,250 with a London-weighting of £24,766 - £40,162
  • SFIA: Level 2

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.

Associate Designers are 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 understanding problems and creating solutions that work equally well for users and stakeholders. They are active members of a healthy user-centred design (UCD) community and culture at Made Tech.

Associate Designers might:

  • have a degree in a subject like UX design or interaction design
  • be a graduate of a vocational course in UX design
  • already be a product designer, UX designer, service designer, or interaction designer

Key responsibilities

Scope

  • Responsible to a Senior Designer for assisting in the design and delivery of public services
  • Hands-on design for one product/team under guidance from a more senior designer
  • Recognises when to ask for further guidance and support
  • Work is reviewed regularly
  • Contributes to communities of practice, discussing and sharing suggestions, approaches and ideas - including proactively seeking feedback on own work

Practice

  • Come up with creative solutions to problems revealed in research
  • Make things real by prototyping your ideas
  • Take responsibility for sharing your own work with your team
  • Improve your designs over time
  • With the support of your team, explain your design decisions to stakeholders

Community

  • Take part in Made Tech community activities

Key measures

  • Delivery of good public services for users in partnership with Made Tech’s clients

Competencies

  • Client focus
  • Drive to deliver
  • Learning
  • Facilitation
  • Thinking through making

Work perks and benefits

Take a look at the Benefits & Perks section of the Made Tech 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]. We’re happy to help!