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Head of Interaction Design

Company: Futureheads Recruitment Ltd
Posted: 31st Aug 2010
Location: London
Salary: £45-65k
Contract Type: Permanent
Start Date: asap
Ref: J597

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I have a new perm role to brief you on. This one is for a client side role (start-up software / application company, with an interesting central product), and is to be the head of Interaction Design for them.

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Hello everyone,

I have a new perm role to brief you on. This one is for a client side role (start-up software / application company, with an interesting central product), and is to be the head of Interaction Design for them. You will have management responsibility for one junior designer, and will report up to the CEO, with a soon-to-be-appointed Product Manager eventually acting as the bridge between the two. Salary for this role is between £45-65k, and they are based in Central / West London.

The central product in this instance is a hugely complex web based application, whose function is to capture masses of quantitative data on users interactions with a company’s digital products. This application is hugely customisable, and can capture an incredible amount of data on all touch points for an organisations digital presence. There are terabytes and terabytes of data flowing into the back end of this product (which was designed and owned by this company), whilst the front end must remain beautifully simple, intuitive, tailorable and efficient, as it is primarily used by time-poor marketers and sales execs.

This is an 18 month old company, and feels very much like a start-up. Internal teams are heavily weighted towards engineers and developers, with the next stage of growth being focussed around the front-end creatives and back office functions. If the idea of helping shape a companies growth, and growing with an organisation whilst functions and abilities come online in relation to need (with the incumbent growing pains that go along with this growth), then you should definitely explore this opportunity.

Production process is adherent to a good UCD cycle, with user research and requirements taking more and more of a front seat in proceedings, as more products are bought, the client list grows and the internal feedback loop built into the product increases in speed and volume of data. Lot’s of concepting, brainstorming and rapid prototyping for presentation to key internal stakeholders.

If this role sounds of interest please do drop me a line. ben@wearefutureheads.co.uk