Olive Jar Digital | 6-Month Fixed-Term Contract | Remote
Olive Jar Digital is looking for an experienced Interaction Designer to join a public sector digital project on a six-month fixed-term contract, starting as soon as possible and running until March 2027.
You’ll design intuitive, accessible interactions and user journeys that help people complete tasks easily and effectively. Working closely with User Researchers, Content Designers and Developers, you’ll translate user needs and research insights into practical design solutions across digital services.
Key responsibilities
- Design and improve interactions across end-to-end digital user journeys.
- Create wireframes, prototypes and interaction design specifications.
- Use research and usability testing to validate design decisions.
- Identify and resolve usability issues across digital services.
- Collaborate with researchers, content designers and developers.
- Apply accessibility and interaction design principles.
- Present design concepts and recommendations to stakeholders.
Essential experience
- Proven experience in interaction design for digital services.
- Strong understanding of user-centred design and usability principles.
- Experience creating prototypes, wireframes and design specifications.
- Experience working in multidisciplinary agile teams.
- Knowledge of accessibility standards and design systems.
- Ability to operate at SFIA Level 5.
Contract details
- Duration: 6-month FTC, through to March 2027.
- Start date: ASAP.
- Location: Remote, with visits to the client site when required.
Skills Required
- Proven experience in interaction design for digital services
- Strong understanding of user-centered design and usability principles
- Experience creating prototypes, wireframes, and design specifications
- Experience working in multidisciplinary agile teams
- Knowledge of accessibility standards and design systems
- Ability to operate at SFIA Level 5
What We Do
Olive Jar Digital has extensive experience in building highly secure, resilient, highly available and scalable websites. We focus on user experience and only build what the end user needs and understands. We deliver our projects using the Agile methodology, in particular Scrum and Kanban. This enables us to deliver on time, on budget and focus on priorities that could shift at any moment. The consultants we engage are either people that we have worked with over the years, have been recommended based on their performance, or have been interviewed and tested by us first. With Olive Jar you get a professional, honest service where we look to build a relationship with you and support you over the years to come. We believe that in order to track the quality of performance effectively, our delivery team, the end client, and our account management team need to buy into a Continual Service Feedback and Improvement ethos. The resources we can provide include: • Full Agile Teams • Delivery Managers • Business Analysts • Technical Architects • Scrum Masters • User Experience Designers • Visual Designer • User Researchers • Developers / Developers in Test • Testers Specialties: IT Consultancy, Software Support, Software Development, Website Design, Agile Delivery, Continuous Delivery
