Senior Interaction Designer - Leeds, United Kingdom - Hippo Digital Limited
Description
About The Role
Hippo Digital is recruiting for
senior consultants in interaction design.
Interaction designers ensure that people using a service can do what they need to do, when they need to do it, in a way that is easy for them.
Working with user researchers, they identify what users need from a service and use that information to inform their design decisions.
Champions of user-centred design, they work with other Agile team members to test and iterate designs, and advise clients on how to get the best from interaction design.
As asenior consultant in interaction design, you'll already be an expert in your field. You'll also be a leader of people and teams and advocate for user-centred design approaches.
Hippo will provide exciting opportunities to share your expertise with, and influence, clients and team members, and to develop as a leader.
What you'll do
- Advise clients on how to solve complex problems using interaction design, peoplecentred design and Agile methodologies
- Lead multidisciplinary Agile teams to design services that meet identified user needs
- Advocate inclusive approaches and styles within interaction design
- Build supportive relationships with clients and stakeholders, yet challenge ideas and manage difficult conversations
- Line management of interaction designers and advise other colleagues on how to get the best from interaction design
- Support in recruitment, events, blogwriting and winning new business
- Promote Hippo's peoplecentred design offer both internally and externally
Skills and experience that you need
- Experience of working in multidisciplinary Agile teams to design and deliver peoplecentred services
- Experience of designing for diverse users, including those with accessibility or assisted digital needs
- Proven experience of championing interaction and service design approaches
- Experience of line management or mentoring/training other interaction designers
- Advanced communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to manage conflict and convey difficult messages with tact and sensitivity
- A good understanding of other Agile roles across design, product and tech
- Strong consultancy and leadership skills, and confidence in exploring problem spaces with clients to determine the most appropriate way forward
What makes us great
In addition to your salary you will receive:
- Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
- 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
- Perkbox access for a wide range of perks and discounts
- Life assurance and death in service cover
- Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
- private health cover
- additional company pension contributions
- additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
- wellbeing contribution
- charity contributions
Hi, we're Hippo.
We're a digital service design consultancy that works closely with our clients to create digital products and services that work for everyone.
Since our inception, we have quickly established ourselves as a leading supplier of digital leaders, service design teams and delivery expertise.
We support large-scale digital transformation programmes to public and private sector organisations looking to truly embrace digital services to innovate and evolve.
We aspire to add value and leave a lasting benefit within those institutes. Our philosophy is to ensure the user is at the core of everything we do, research, design and deliver.Collaborating with us means embracing a digital-first strategy with people first design, which will genuinely create lasting change and positive impact.
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Job Type:
Permanent
Salary:
£53,000.00-£70,000.00 per year
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Work Location:
Hybrid remote in Leeds
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