Design Lead

3 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Opencast Software Full time

**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 high-risk 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 high-risk, high-impact problems
- Can facilitate discussions in complex and time-pressured 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**:

- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Manchester

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