Mid-Weight Interaction Designer

Comic Relief

Location London
Salary £34,000 - 38,000
Team Digital and Innovation
  • Closing: 12:00pm, 16th Oct 2019 BST

Perks and benefits

Flexible working hours
Work from home option
Life Insurance
Wellness programs
Employee Assistance Programme
Additional parental leave
Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
Paid emergency leave
Sabbatical Opportunities
Professional development
Paid volunteer days
Salary sacrifice
Team social events
Extracurricular clubs
Cycle to work scheme
Free fruit
Free soft drinks

Candidate happiness

8.56 (10340)

Job Description

Comic Relief are looking for an experienced interaction designer to join the team responsible for digital innovation across our brands (Red Nose Day, Sport Relief, Comic Relief).

You will have the opportunity to get stuck in with teams from across the organization to shape Comic Relief’s digital innovation projects and play a key role in developing and improving our design practices. Your work will have a positive and tangible impact on Comic Relief audiences and will contribute to our ongoing drive to engage the mass UK public and raise money.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Adapt and improve production design for comicrelief.com and sportrelief.com

  • Understanding business objectives and user needs through continuous research and prototyping

  • Helping to deliver a product that satisfies these objectives and needs

  • Articulating your thinking to Design Lead, collaborators, other stakeholders and users

  • Prototyping ideas quickly using pen and paper, Keynote and digital prototyping tools

  • Collaborating with developers to help turn designs into working products

  • Working iteratively in an Agile environment

  • Creating seamless experiences across web, mobile and other connected devices

ESSENTIAL EDUCATION & COMPETENCIES:

  • Design related discipline training or degree preferred, including Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Visual Communications, Human-centered Design

  • Candidates ideally have several years of industry knowledge (agency or in-house design environment), experience in multi-tasking and inter-disciplinary collaboration

  • Good understanding of both systems and storytelling projects, excellent can-do attitude with attention to detail, and the ability to understand and execute strategic insights

  • Great presentation and interpersonal communications skills

  • Passion for charity and social purpose, also a good knowledge of the wider NGOs landscape

Removing bias from the hiring process

Applications closed Wed 16th Oct 2019

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Removing bias from the hiring process

  • Your application will be anonymously reviewed by our hiring team to ensure fairness
  • You’ll need a CV/résumé, but it’ll only be considered if you score well on the anonymous review

Applications closed Wed 16th Oct 2019