Head of Role for Interaction Design

Salary: £87,520 per year

🚀 Are you an expert in Interaction Design? An advocate, ambassador and role model for the power of brilliant user-centred design within an agile environment?

🚀 Do you want to be lead a brilliant community of IxD professionals through an epic digital transformation – with responsibility for understanding and meeting the Interaction Design needs of the UK’s largest government department?

🚀 Do you have experience of working with senior stakeholders and a range of service teams to give expert advice and support on the best approaches to Interaction Design?

🚀 Do you want to work as part of a brilliant Product Design leadership team, building a digital design process that cuts across common components, digital design patterns and non-digital channels?

🚀 Click, to start an application. We’d love to hear from you!

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We are looking for a Head of our Interaction Design to lead DWP Digital’s vibrant and growing community of Interaction Design practitioners. We are transforming the way DWP delivers services to meet the evolving needs of society and our workforce of 86,000 and our 22 million users.

You’ll lead by example. You’ll promote your vision for-all round Interaction Design excellence and best-practice. We want you to be hands on in creating new Interaction Design and iteratively improving existing design for products and services across our many digital and offline channels.

You’ll have responsibility for our community of Interaction Designers. You’ll allocate IxD talent to the teams that need it, and make sure we have the skills and people we need to deliver through recruitment and learning.

You’ll be able to build big relationships at a senior level too, planning and leading discussions to make sure good, consistent design is at the centre of what we do here.

You’re an Interaction Design evangelist, and you’ll represent your community and profession within and without DWP. As a recognised expert and leader for Interaction Design, you’ll be a visible advocate and ambassador for user-centred and service-led approaches. And when our service teams and senior leaders have an expert level question about IxD strategy and best practice they’ll know who to ask.

What skills and experience are we looking for?

You’re a visible and recognised digital leader capable of giving significant advice and guidance to others
You have a proven track record of working from a digital perspective, including iterating Interaction Design for complex situations
You have experience of engaging multidisciplinary teams with a user-centred design process and of explaining design decisions in a way that a wide range of colleagues can understand
You have experience of user centred agile & design practices (DDaT).
You are an expert for a specialist profession, leading in the field of Interaction Design for digital services.

Where will you work?

You’ll join our team at our digital hub in Blackpool.

Based on the outskirts of the city, just a 15-minute drive from the train station with lots of parking. There are also local buses that stop nearby. Our facilities include a canteen, coffee shop, deli bar, vending machines, ATM banking, cycle shelter and showers.

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Due to the COVID pandemic most colleagues are temporarily working from home, when they return to working from the office there will be an expectation the successful candidate will need to frequently travel between the Digital Hubs where Delivery teams are based.

We foster a collaborative culture to help our agile, multidisciplinary teams think big and try new things. You will work alongside people who care passionately about public service, making a difference and delivering for our customers.

We’re the UK’s biggest government department with over 80,000 diverse and brilliant people on our team. We are an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications regardless of age, gender, race or sexuality.

Details. Wages. Perks.
In return for your skills we offer competitive salary up to £87,519.6 p.a., a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions circa 27%, and a generous leave package.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
* Flexible working
* Family friendly policies
* Volunteering and charitable giving
* Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
* Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket
* Sports and social activities
* Learning and development, including coaching, mentoring, qualifications and accreditation
* Work in an environment shortlisted for a Best Place to Work in Digital Award – />* Career progression opportunities and lots more

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