Interaction Designer

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 347296**Salary**:

- £53,400 - £58,850- £53,400 - £58,850 Based on capability. The base salary of this grade is £53,400. Offers made above this will be made up with a specialist pay allowance**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- GDS - GOV.UK**Type of role**:

- Digital
- Information Technology**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed hours**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- ManchesterAbout the job

**Job summary**:
GDS exists to help government make brilliant public services that empower people in the UK. We work at the very centre of government to drive digital transformation, focused on users. We build and maintain common platforms, products and tools for others to use and create great public services that are accessible, inclusive and easy to use. We also work with departments to identify patterns, share learning and create change to make government more efficient.

Our teams are organised around delivering on our priorities. These are:

- making it easier for people to find what they are looking for on GOV.UK
- building common service platforms to make it simpler and cheaper to build quality digital services
- promoting agile, user-centred design practices both in the UK and across the world

You will be focussed on one of the priority areas of GOV.UK, such as:

- Exploring whether artificial intelligence can make the user experience of GOV.UK better
- Improving design patterns that help people find things on GOV.UK

Find out more about our work on the Inside GOV.UK blog or the GDS blog.

**Job description**:
As a designer at GDS you’ll work in multidisciplinary teams, alongside researchers and developers, to deliver world-class, user centred public services that meet the Government Design Principles. You’ll help identify and fix some of the toughest problems in public infrastructure and you will be focussing on the design of services at scale. You’ll help the government transform the way it delivers services, so that they’re more efficient, simpler, faster and easier to use.

You'll be part of a fantastic design community in government, where we share ideas and challenges with 1000s of designers across the public sector. This is a chance to work on services that matter, at a huge scale, with people who value design. Find out more about what it’s like designing in government on our Design in Government blog.

As an interaction designer you’ll:

- design digital services that meet user needs
- work effectively in a multidisciplinary, agile environment, adapting quickly to changes in requirements, priorities or user needs
- use research and analytics to understand users needs, identify service failures and test different designs
- design collaboratively and in the open, engaging your whole team with the design process and adapting it if necessary
- 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

**Person specification**:
We’re interested in people who:

- design clear, usable, accessible digital interfaces that work across a range of devices and browsers
- have experience in making effective decisions with user research data
- work effectively in a multidisciplinary, agile environment, adapting quickly to changes in requirements, priorities or user needs
- have experience of working with senior stakeholders and ability to negotiate important design decisions
- design collaboratively and in the open, have experience of engaging with people in a variety of ways (for example, workshops or co-design activities)
- have an understanding of new technologies and on how to use them to create inclusive and accessible services

**Benefits**:
The benefits of working at GDS

There are many benefits of working at GDS, including:

- flexible hybrid working with flexi-time and the option to work part-time or condensed hours
- a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
- 25 days of annual leave, increasing by a day each year up to a maximum of 30 days
- an extra day off for The King’s birthday
- an in-year bonus scheme to recognise high performance
- career progression and coaching, including a training budget for personal development
- paid volunteering leave
- a focus on wellbeing with access to an employee assistance programme
- job satisfaction from making government services easier to use and more inclusive for people across the UK
- advances on pay, including for travel season tickets
- death in service benefits
- cycle to work scheme and facilities
- access to an employee discounts scheme
- 10 learning days per year
- volunteering opportunities (5 special leave days per ye