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<p>I&rsquo;m working with a London-based service design and digital product development agency with over 15 years of experience in creating great digital services in both the public and private sectors to hire a couple of designers to the team.<br><br>They create digital products and services that solve complex problems and positively impact people&rsquo;s lives. Their multidisciplinary teams deliver end-to-end digital solutions through agile, user-centered approaches, integrated service design and development, open-source technologies, and cross-team collaboration.<br><br>Recent projects include using an agile MVP approach to transform public sexual health services in the UK, and hosting and infrastructure delivery of a new digital platform for world-class leading V&amp;A.<br><br>Among other things, you will be facilitating workshops, conducting research, translating findings, leading co-design workshops, and prototyping - working as part of a multidisciplinary team to turn designs into digital products that make a meaningful impact in the world.<br><br>We are looking for designers who can comfortably work across multiple design disciplines, but who have deeper knowledge speciﬁcally in at least one of our core areas.<br><br><strong>Core design disciplines must include:</strong><br>Service Design<br>Product Design<br>Design Research<br><br><strong>Skills</strong><br>As a senior designer, you will be expected to have the skills and experience to be able to work autonomously on tasks within a project and to be able to demonstrate the following skills.<br><br><strong>Design skills:</strong><br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Facilitation and consensus building - planning, running, and facilitating meaningful and valuable workshops and collaborative working sessions to enable the team to deliver smarter and faster<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Planning and carrying out user research - ensure that research delivers the right value to the project, the right people are included in research, pulling out relevant insight, and including the whole team<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Storytelling - using key information from research to help tell a compelling story about the work, keeping the client and senior stakeholders onboard with the journey you and The team are taking<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Prototyping and wireframing &ndash; taking insight and turning them into tangible design assets to visually communicate the direction of work, using design systems when needed and if required as part of the project producing high-ﬁdelity design work<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Explore how work ﬁts into bigger eco systems-able to zoom out from the detail to understand and articulate<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Clearly how the product ﬁts into a bigger picture, whether a service or ecosystem, and support the team and the client to lead the work in that direction<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Holding and advocating for multiple perspectives &ndash; you can understand and articulate user needs, business needs, and technical restraints, and advocate for them during the design of products, processes, and services<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Articulate complexity and impact of decisions &ndash; you are able to work in highly complex environments, helping the team and the client to articulate the complexity<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Communicate visually - you&rsquo;re able to ﬁnd ways to communicate complex information, decisions, and direction in a visual way when needed<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Respectfully challenge, reframe, and refocus work when needed - you&rsquo;re able to ask questions and explore direction in a respectful and kind way that helps others to understand your perspective.<br><br><br><strong>Competencies and behaviours</strong><br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Communication, both written and verbally<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Listening<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Creative problem solving<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Adaptability<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Curious and questioning<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Empathy and humility<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Open and transparent<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Build healthy relationships<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Learning by doing<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Continuous improvement<br>&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Care and attention<br><br>You will need to have demonstrable experience working within agile processes and methodologies and have a strong drive to work closely and collaboratively with developers, delivery managers and subject matter experts to deliver the best outcomes for the project.</p>
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Senior Product & Service Designer

Navin Mahadea

<p>Nav is a Senior Consultant working across perm and freelance hires for any roles within a Product Design function. He studied Products at uni - before digital product design was a thing and product design meant physical products. Those that can, do. Those that can't... recruit.</p>
<p>Nav is part of our Product Design team, working with a range of businesses from early-stage start-ups looking for their founding designers, to helping scale the product design functions with high-growth tech unicorns and everything in between.</p>
<p>Nav can't go into a pub without trying the most random beer they have on draft.</p>

With positions across agencies, brands, start-ups and tech companies, we work with Creatives delivering new brands, campaigns and integrated experiences. From hiring freelance Creative Teams to your first in-house Copywriter, we’ve got it covered. 

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    <p>With positions across agencies, brands, start-ups and tech companies, we work with Creatives delivering new brands, campaigns and integrated experiences. From hiring freelance Creative Teams to your first in-house Copywriter, we’ve got it covered.</p>
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    <h5>Our network include professionals in:</h5> 
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Creative

The complexities of AI and Machine learning, as well as the focus on data integrity, means hiring professionals with compliance, system integration and advanced analytics skills can be challenging. Our team is on hand to help with your Data recruitment needs.

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    <p>The complexities of AI and Machine learning, as well as the focus on data integrity, means hiring professionals with compliance, system integration and advanced analytics skills can be challenging. Our team is on hand to help with your Data recruitment needs.</p>
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    <h5>Our network includes professionals in:</h5>
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      <li>Data Science</li>
      <li>​Data Analytics</li>
      <li>Business Intelligence</li>
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Data

Part of our founding offering; since 2009 we have been part of the growth and evolution of the Design market in the UK – With a comprehensive network across all majors skill-sets we have consistently helped businesses hire world-class Design talent. 

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    <p>Part of our founding offering; since 2009 we have been part of the growth and evolution of the Design market in the UK – With a comprehensive network across all majors skill-sets we have consistently helped businesses hire world-class Design talent.</p>
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    <h5> Our network includes Designers with skills in:</h5>
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      <li>Digital Product (UX/UI) Design</li>
      <li>User Interface (UI) Design</li>
      <li>​Visual Design</li>
      <li>Digital Design</li>
      <li>Marketing Design</li>
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Design

We know that the world of Digital Marketing moves at a quick pace. Digital Devices, Digital Platforms, Digital Media, Digital Data, And Digital Technology never stops. This is why our teams are on hand to support these changing landscapes and are always ahead of the curve.

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    <p>We know that the world of Digital Marketing moves at a quick pace. Digital Devices, Digital Platforms, Digital Media, Digital Data, And Digital Technology never stops. This is why our teams are on hand to support these changing landscapes and are always ahead of the curve.</p>
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    <h5>Our network includes professionals in</h5>
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      <li>Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)</li>
      <li>Pay-per-Click</li>
      <li>Social Media Marketing</li>
      <li>Content Marketing</li>
      <li>Email Marketing</li>
      <li>Mobile Marketing</li>
      <li>Marketing Analytics</li>
      <li>Affiliate Marketing</li>
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Digital Marketing

Our niche is technical experts who specialise in IT and digital projects, across multiple platforms and technology stacks. Come and talk to us about all things engineering, from entry to CTO-Level.

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    <h5>Our network includes professionals across:</h5>
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      <li>Front-end</li>
      <li>​Server-side​</li>
      <li>​Full-stack​</li>
      <li>Native Mobile​​</li>
      <li>Technical Architecture​​</li>
      <li>Solution Architecture​​</li>
      <li>Testing</li>
      <li>QA​​</li>
      <li>DevOps</li>
      <li>SRE</li>
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Engineering

From recruiting your first Product Owner to hiring your next experienced Product Managers, our recruiters have developed a specialist network in the design and tech space. They have trusted experts in sourcing and delivering both permanent and contract professionals in the field.

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    <p>From recruiting your first Product Owner to hiring your next experienced Product Managers, our recruiters have developed a specialist network in the design and tech space. They are trusted experts in sourcing and delivering both permanent and contract professionals in the field.</p>
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    <h5>Our network includes:</h5>
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      <li>Chief Product Officers (CPO)</li>
      <li>VP's of Product Management​</li>
      <li>Directors of Product Management</li>
      <li>Product Managers​​</li>
      <li>Product Owners</li>
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Product

With a deep understanding of what is required from Project Managers and Programme Managers in the Digital and Tech space, we can help you find the talent to help you deliver better budget controls, communication, and reporting, to help you find ways to introduce new processes tools and technology that can support more efficient work delivery.

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    <p>With a deep understanding of what is required from Project Managers and Programme Managers in the Digital and Tech space, we can help you find the talent to help you deliver better budget controls, communication, and reporting, to help you find ways to introduce new processes tools and technology that can support more efficient work delivery. </p>
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    <h5>Our network includes:</h5>
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      <li>Digital Project Managers</li>
      <li>Programme Managers</li>
      <li>Engineering Project Managers</li>
      <li>Software/IT Project Managers</li>
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Project & Programme Management

From helping shape the London-UX market from the early days, to running and sponsoring some of the most well-known UX networking events – our reputation holds in our ability to match top-tier UX practitioners into opportunities. 

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    <p>From helping shape the London-UX market from the early days, to running and sponsoring some of the most well-known UX networking events – our reputation holds in our ability to match top-tier UX practitioners into opportunities. </p>
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    <h5>Our network includes practitioners with skills across:</h5>
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      <li>User Research</li>
      <li>Interaction Design​</li>
      <li>​UX Design</li>
      <li>Information Architecture</li>
      <li>​Service Design​</li>
      <li>Content Design</li>
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