i.AI - Senior Interaction Designer
Responsibilities
• Deliver high-quality, user-centred designs as part of a multidisciplinary team • Use evidence to challenge assumptions, validate decisions and negotiate with stakeholders • Build ethical review and evaluation into your work to reduce unintended consequences • Develop patterns for how people interact with AI, working with teams across i.AI and beyond • Lead good design practice, including line managing junior designers • Contribute to i.AI's design community and to GDS and cross-government design communities • Foster an inclusive team culture built on honest feedback and continuous improvement • You may be a strong fit if you bring some of the following: • Designs clear, usable, accessible interfaces that work across devices and browsers, grounded in user needs • Has a track record in user-centred digital product design in a product-led organisation, and knows which tool or method suits the job • Is proficient across a range of design and prototyping tools, including HTML prototyping (AI-assisted is fine) • Collaborates well in multidisciplinary teams, iterates designs using data, research and best practice, and builds strong working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders • Communicates clearly and persuasively, bringing clarity and alignment across project and leadership teams, especially when things are ambiguous • Reflects critically and asks difficult questions, seeing the big picture and its wider implications while staying focused on the minimum viable product • Contributes to the wider design community, for example by speaking at meetups or writing blog posts
Benefits
• Career-defining projects with outsized impact • Backing from the Prime Minister and No10 to scope and build transformative AI projects. • Unique opportunities to apply technology that could transform the public sector and impact citizens’ lives. • Talented, supportive and mission-driven colleagues. • Access to frontier models and ample compute. • Extensive operational, product, strategy, design and delivery support so you can focus on shipping. • Work with experts across national security, policy, AI research and adjacent sciences. • Growth & empowerment • A team culture and development support that prioritises personal growth. • Opportunities to own important products early and develop them in small empowered teams. • 5 days off learning and development, annual stipends for learning and development and funding for conferences and external collaborations. • Life & family* • Opportunity to work from London, Manchester or Bristol offices. • Hybrid working, flexibility for occasional remote work abroad and stipends for work-from-home equipment. • Generous annual leave - 25 days plus one additional day for each year of service • Generous paid parental leave (up to 39 weeks full pay + option for additional unpaid time). • On top of your salary, we contribute 28.97% of your base salary to your pension. • Discounts and benefits for cycling to work, dental insurance, donations and retail/gyms. • These benefits apply to direct employees. Benefits may differ for people joining through other employment arrangements such as secondments. • Salary is paid within the grade range shown below.As this is a GDaD role, the maximum salary available includes a non-pensionable technical allowance, and successful candidates will be appointed somewhere within that range depending on assessment.Grade 7National: £58,275 - £78,080 (maximum includes non-pensionable technical allowance of up to £14,100)London: £61,620 to £82,670 (maximum includes non-pensionable technical allowance of up to £14,100) • Grade 7 • National: • London: • Selection Process • Selection Process • Appointment is conditional on successfully completing UK Government SC clearance. Prior clearance is not required—we will sponsor and support you. You should normally have been resident in the UK for 2 of the past 5 years. Employment is conditional on obtaining and maintaining the required clearance(s). More detail on clearance eligibility can be found on the UK Government website: National security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK • Appointment is conditional on successfully completing UK Government SC clearance. Prior clearance is not required—we will sponsor and support you. • In accordance with the Civil Service Commission rules, the following list contains all elements of the selection process. • Candidates should expect to go through some or all of the following stages once an application has been submitted: • A short initial conversation • Technical take home test • Second interview in which we’ll review the technical test • Third interview with wider representation from the team • Final interview with members of the senior team • Diversity and Inclusion • The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window). As part of the application process, we monitor statistics on D&I. You can see how we process this data here: Recruitment privacy notice - GOV.UK. • £58,275—£82,670 GBP
Apply in one click
Upload My Resume
Drop here or click to browse · Tap to choose · PDF, DOCX, DOC, RTF, TXT