The public sector client is looking to recruit a Senior Interaction Designer for a 12 month temporary contract based in Leeds. If your CV is successfully shortlisted for this assignment, you will be required to provide a portfolio of your previous work for the client to view.

The successful candidate will have a valid DBS or be willing to apply for one on CV submission or when a job offer has been made and accepted. This assignment sits inside IR35.

About the Rates of Pay: The higher pay rate advertised in our job advert/s will always be the highest Ltd or Umbrella Company pay rate that the client is willing to pay up to and the lower pay rate advertised in our job advert/s will always be the highest PAYE pay rate, that the client is willing to pay up to, unless otherwise specified. If the PAYE rate is not indicated in the job advert then please contact us for confirmation of the PAYE daily pay rate.

Have relevant industry experience
• understand the web
• have experience of working from a digital perspective
• have experience of sketching, prototyping and iterative design
• have experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
• have experience of using a user-centred design approach
• have experience of explaining design decisions and communicating ideas in a way that other people understand
• be able to lead a workshop
• be able to help the design process work effectively
• know how to plan user research
• have experience of interpreting research and data
• have experience of handling constructive criticism of your work
• have experience of constructively reviewing other people’s work
• have experience of putting forward the case for design to senior stakeholders and product owners
• have experience of working at pace in an agile environment

Ideally, you’ll also:
• have a design-related degree
• be able to work directly with front-end code to update prototypes – skills in HTML, CSS, and javascript aren’t essential, but all our designers learn the basics
• be able to write for user interfaces
• have experience of working on designs with a software engineer
• have experience of working in technical teams in complex environments