Senior Interaction Designers (UX), Greenfield Projects across a variety of Industries, Leading Design and Technology Consultancy recruitment

Senior Interaction Designers (UX), Greenfield Projects across a variety of Industries, Leading Design and Technology Consultancy.

Introduction: Montash Associates have been engaged by a niche design and technology consultancy, to assist in the acquisition of a team of interaction designers (including ID’s, ID’s with Business Analysis experience and a Creative Lead), who specialise in interaction design for applications. This team will work together to create a core design strategy, and then work directly with clients from a variety of industries, including Investment Banks, Military Organisations and leading Energy Providers, amongst others.

The Organisation: A highly successful niche design and technology consultancy that prides itself on delivering successful projects for its clients. These projects aim to deliver smart and essential products or services, supporting expert users day-in, day-out. This group of like-minded designers and technologists have a pedigree in working on the most complex challenges, and have enjoyed a very successful year of winning some exciting and highly profitable new business across industries.

The Team: Sat within the core UX (User Experience) division the Interaction Design Team is focussed on providing the visual articulation of ideas and thoughts. The team works closely with other UX teams, as well as technology teams and client support teams to collaboratively offer the best possible solution.

The Project: A variety across several industries, including trading platform development for leading Investment Bank, Defence System design for a military organisation and a variety of other leading firms in both the public and private sectors.

The Role: There is requirement for several new team-members from a variety of backgrounds, including ID’s, ID’s with business analysis experience, and a team lead. Senior Interaction Designers are expected to:

•Create vision journeys and concept work early on in a project or for new business development

•Perform formative user research and summative user experience testing and evaluation throughout the project

•Gather user requirements and create personas/pen portraits to describe archetypes and their scenarios of use

•Develop other conceptual models that describe users, contexts, behaviours and high level solutions

•Elicit user and business goals and translate into product development strategies and solution requirements

•Use the knowledge of the user, the business and the technology to design the application

•Create wireframes that document the page-by-page or element-by-element interaction of the user with the application

•Create prototypes that allow the interaction to be evaluated and iterated with other team members, clients and end-users

•Document the interactions to the appropriate level for the project (annotated wireframes, working prototypes, functional specifications or storyboards)

The Skills: The following must be true of all applicants, with some flexibility:

•You will have a degree or post-graduate qualification in Interaction Design, HCI, Product design, Industrial Design or equivalent work experience.

•You will have worked for a top-flight agency or have a consultancy background.

•You have worked on application design; not just marketing or content–heavy web sites

•You are skilled in the Adobe Creative Suite

•You have created, evolved and documented the process and methods for doing UE in a project or organisation

•You will have worked closely with clients; working with them to elicit requirements, co-create designs, negotiating UE decisions, selling UE and managing sign-off

•You will have worked on projects where you have designed the complete experience - from eliciting requirements and latent needs from client and end users; through visualising conceptual models of the context, strategy and solution; to designing cutting edge user interfaces and seeing these through to successful launch,

•You are committed to User Experience and want to push the boundaries of the technology and the way interfaces are designed. You are an expert in Interaction Design and can develop tools and methods for doing this work as required on the project.

•You know how to express your ideas visually; using techniques like sketchnoting, diagramming and sketching. You can deliver sketches and documentation to a high-level of quality and fidelity for review and use by the client and development team.

•You are passionate about business problems; willing to probe into both the users and the business’s requirements to extract latent needs, not just explicit wants – enabling you to articulate latent challenges and opportunities for the solution to take advantage of. You can tailor your designs adjusting to business, technology or contextual constraints, while delivering the maximum amount of value for end users and fulfilling any proposition set prior.

•You will have designed applications; not just marketing or content–heavy web sites.

•You will possess interpersonal skills, allowing you to be inquisitive, transparent, passionate, driven, pioneering and collaborative.

•You will have a portfolio of at least 1 project that shows and explains the full UE lifecycle and 2 projects that show detailed work for a part of the process and can demonstrate:

oUser experience expertise

oProgression of ideas and design throughout the project

oUse of multiple methods to extract requirements and validate UE deliverables

oDemonstration of expertise in rich Interaction design

oExperience with complex and data-rich applications

oExperience designing beyond web: including mobile, desktop and physical

The Package: This highly successful and profitable organisation has just won some big business and has plenty more in the pipeline. With this in mind, they need some of the best people in the industry to help drive the company forward, and will be paying packages to attract these candidates. Salaries up to £70k for the most senior team members, plus £Benefits + £Bonus are achievable.

Contact: If this opportunity is of interest, or for a conversation about the London Design and Technology industry in general, please contact Paul Kirtley at paulk@montash.com, or on 0207 749 6066

Keywords: Interaction Designer, ID, User Experience, UX, UE, Senior Interaction Designer, Design, Investment Bank, London, Consultancy