Product Design Lead

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A Product Design Lead is required to support the Head of Digital Delivery to set up the Product Design Practice (including Service Design, Business Analysis, Interaction/Content/Front-end Design, User Research and Product Ownership) and setting product design standards and working practices. There will be significant travel to Blackpool, Newcastle, Leeds, Sheffield and Manchester.

Essential Skills and Experience:

*Understand Business Strategy.

*Ability to define requirements standards and quality targets for an organisation in agreement with key stakeholders.

*Be able to work with other Service Practice Leads and Heads of Practice to build cross-community ways of working to support delivery priorities and effectively deliver common goals.

*Undertake effective transfer knowledge to permanent position when filled.

*Able to advise on tools and methods to be used to communicate the user experience.

*An expert in understanding the strengths and limitations of different methods who is sought out by peers for advice on research planning.

*Excellent leadership skills and able to play a significant role in shaping and developing the capability of product owners across the organisation, with experience leading multiple product teams.

*Have substantial experience of engaging multidisciplinary teams with a user-centred design process, and explaining design decisions and other ideas in a way that other people understand.

*Have demonstrable experience of managing a team of individuals from at least one of these disciplines: Service Design, Business Analysis, Interaction/content/front-end design, User Research and Product Ownership.

*Able to direct a team of business analysts, user researchers and Product Owners, with an ability to build credible relationships at senior levels within a complex organisation.

*Identifies both functional and non-functional requirements and prioritises high level and detailed requirements and user stories.

*BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis

*Experience in working in wide range of Project Environments specifically Agile with an understanding of the different approaches, for example Scrum, XP, DSDM.

*Previous experience within government services.

*Previous experience of taking a service live, delivering continuous improvement.

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