Design Lead - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Opencast Software

Opencast Software

Verified Company

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The role
As a Design Lead you'll lead designers across multiple programmes of work to deliver complex services.

You'll be responsible for consistency of design quality, be an escalation point for problems, and influence senior stakeholders through building their understanding and support of design in agile.

What you'll do within our teams

Oversee multiple programmes of work, each made up of multiple projects
Represent UCD excellence for all design roles, leading on quality and best practice for all design roles through coaching and mentoring teams
Collaborate with your leadership peer group to tackle process and operational challenges
Mentor and line manage senior designers
Support recruitment, resourcing and allocation for upcoming project pipelines
Ensure consistency of quality in delivery through peer reviews and assessments
Review project and team change proposals and recommend actions and next steps
Be an escalation point for challenges within teams and across programmes
Facilitate discussions across highrisk and complex areas or projects under constrained timelines

You'll suit this role if you:

Have experience in a design leadership role
Have mentoring and coaching experience
Are comfortable adapting to competing constraints and requirements
Can make and justify decisions about highrisk, highimpact problems
Can facilitate discussions in complex and timepressured situations
Can engage and influence at all levels
Can use your initiative to identify problems or issues in team dynamics and solve them
Unblock issues and resolve conflict with empathy and skill
Have a strong understanding of GDS and designing to government service standards

About Opencast
Opencast is an ambitious, successful, and growing technology consultancy. We pride ourselves in the qualities of our people. We're inclusive, creative, and collaborative - don't just take our word for it, look us up on Glassdoor

It's an exciting time to join us on our journey as we grow and expand our services to help our clients tackle bigger, more complex challenges.

We plan to treble the size of our team by 2025 — but we're determined not to lose our unique culture.

You'll enjoy life at Opencast if you:

you want to join an ambitious, growing consultancy

- you believe in inclusivity, creativity, and collaboration
- are brave enough to ask the right questions and do the right thing
- work flexibly and don't like stiff hierarchy

Want to find out more?
Visit our website to find out more about us, our work and the benefits of joining us.

If you'd like to talk directly about this role with the people leading our services, visit the Contact section of the website.

We're keen to chat

Job Types:
Full-time, Temporary contract

Salary:
£550.00-£650.00 per day

Benefits: