Senior Interaction Designer
| Posting date: | 06 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | £53,400 to £66,875 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National £53,400 - £59,700. London £58,800 - £66,875 - Offers above the band minimum are subject to our assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview. Salaries over the band minimum will be paid as a non-pensionable allowance. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 June 2024 |
| Location: | Manchester |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 355808/4 |
Summary
The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI) - is an AI for public good programme which exists to harness the opportunities presented by AI to improve the lives of citizens. It focuses on priority projects across the whole of public services. We are a technical team, focussed on building things and learning quickly what works.
Building on the work of No10 Data Science Team (10DS) and other leading technology teams across the civil service, i.AI will experiment and prove what is possible. It was recently announced that i.AI will expand a further 40 roles to build a scale up function, which will take successful incubated projects into production.
You can see more about our work on ai.gov.uk
As a Senior Interaction Designer in i.AI you'll design cutting edge user experiences and interactions for how civil servants and the public use our innovative Artificial Intelligence products and services. Your role will be to design services that are simple enough for everyone to use.
The standards and design system created within this team will be world class and adopted across the civil service and beyond. Working with stakeholders and users to understand needs and design solutions. We are looking for someone who will build good working relationships to get the work done.
This is a radical innovation team, and we hire team members who are collaborative, energetic, and are motivated to “get stuff done”, as well as being optimistic big picture thinkers. This role is perfect for somebody looking to operate in a start-up environment. We are a team of specialists who also get involved in other areas that are not our specialism (we value T-shaped people).
You'll work in multi-disciplinary teams to bring brilliant design to our products. Being flexible and passionate about getting things done are essential, this will be a varied role and we need someone who’s keen to adapt to what’s needed.
You’ll understand how to design across devices and platforms in an agile environment, and you’ll help the government transform the way it delivers services, so that they’re simpler, faster and easier to use.
As Senior Interaction Designer you will:
- work effectively in a multidisciplinary, agile environment, adapting quickly to changes in requirements, priorities or user needs.
- use evidence to question assumptions, negotiate with product owners and rationalise your design decisions.
- design collaboratively and in the open, engaging your whole team with the design process and adapting it if necessary.
- focus most of your time on a product which is being scaled up and in active delivery, alongside contributing to project which are being incubated.
- champion accessibility and inclusion, consider the impact of new technologies and ensure that designs meet legal requirements.
- collaborate with designers in other teams and departments, reviewing each other's work and developing shared patterns and driving improvements to a design system.
- keep up to date with latest trends in design best practice to continually develop our ability to build AI products.
- support the effective performance of the team by promoting diversity, inclusion, regular, honest and constructive feedback, and supporting continuous improvement.
This role will is based on the Government Digital and Data Professional Capability Framework - Senior Interaction Designer