Senior Experience Designer
* $143,798 per annum + superannuation
* Full time, Ongoing
* Geelong location (hybrid working model – 3 days in the office)
Come and join a progressive and rewarding business to protect our Victorian workers and return them home safely every day.
About the role
Senior Experience Designers ensure the smooth coordination and delivery of design projects, ensuring that outcomes are delivered on time. They provide design leadership across multidisciplinary teams and within the design practice to ensure delivery of high-quality work.
Senior Experience Designers inform solutions and move them towards delivery through creating future states, road maps and experience prototypes that ensure desirable, viable and feasible experiences are delivered effectively and efficiently.
You will be:
* Leading and overseeing delivery of numerous design initiatives at any given time, developing a deep understanding of project plans, intended strategic outcomes and key deliverables, effectively collaborating with senior stakeholders and clarifying assumptions
* Providing technical leadership and guidance across a number of deliverables and undertake regular meetings with stakeholder with regards to deliverables, expectations, and potential risks and issues
* Providing design leadership as part of a multidisciplinary project team, coordinating Designers and Associate Designers to deliver consistent design methodologies across projects that are of high quality and within agreed timeframes
* Developing and overseeing engagement approaches, guiding and leading the design and facilitation of workshops with Designers and Associate Designers, including bring clarity to current state experiences, ensuring that these are well understood and agreed by all relevant stakeholders through the creation of artefacts that capture complex systems, experiences, information architecture and represent both quantitative and qualitative research results
* Leading the development of product strategies, road maps, experience prototypes and user research plans that can deliver new services and products through iterating design based on desirability, viability, and feasibility.
Please ensure you take a look at the Position Description here for additional information on accountabilities for this role.
About you
You have demonstrated experience in coaching, mentoring and upskilling people in Experience Design and Agile methods, advocating for design within an agile environment. You are motivated and capable of looking at problems through a user-centric lens. As the sole Designer in your squad, you will have demonstrated your ability to work autonomously.
Your communication skills are excellent and you have demonstrated your ability to liaise with all levels of an organisation including Executive. Not only will you have an ability to rapidly acquire an understanding of the Insurance and Health and Safety legislation, you also have a nous for working in an embedded product team within traditional government structure. Further, you will also possess:
* An ability to think creatively, and develop new and innovative ways of approaching problems/opportunities and engaging with various audiences
* Proven ability to work with clients and to leverage design methodologies to understand their needs and wants
* Proven ability to experiment by leveraging concept testing tools and techniques to iterate potential solutions
* Proven ability to manage projects with a high level of ambiguity and to support design and product teams through ambiguity to deliver positive outcomes
* An ability to work with all levels of our organisation from the CEO and senior leadership teams to new graduates and junior staff members
Qualifications:
* Tertiary Degree in either Design, Business, Human Sciences, Engineering or extensive relevant industry experience
Working with Us
At WorkSafe, we aspire for every employee to feel connected, safe and valued in their team, for teams to feel valued in the workplace, and for WorkSafe to be valued in the community.
We believe that a diverse workforce is the key to delivering the best outcomes for the Victorian community and strongly encourage applications from all people, including First Nations people and people with disability, diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, sexualities and genders.
We pride ourselves on being a great place to work and offer flexibility to facilitate work/life balance.
WorkSafe employees enjoy: Mental and physical health and wellbeing programs | Flexible working | Discounted gym memberships | Supporting work environment | WELL rated building | Active Social Club | Career opportunities and working for your Community!
What’s next?
Applications close 11:00pm Tuesday 5th November, 2024. Click the link to apply, and join us in making a difference to Victorian lives.
Due to the ongoing nature of this role, only those who hold Australian Citizenship, Permanent Residency or New Zealand Citizenship may apply for this position. You may be required to undergo a National Police Check (and/or Medical Assessment) as part of the recruitment process.
Candidate screening may take place prior to the advertisement closing, so get your application in.
Please note, only applications submitted via our formal application channels (WorkSafe Careers website, SEEK or LinkedIn) will be considered.
For further enquiries please contact Talent Acquisition Specialist, Brittany Walker via email Brittany_walker@worksafe.vic.gov.au.
About us
WorkSafe's Strategy has our core purpose front of mind – reducing workplace harm and improving outcomes for injured workers. We don’t shy away from the importance of our purpose to the Victorian community, that’s why we have a stated ambition to be world leading.
We want Victoria to be the safest place to work in Australia and one of the safest in the world; and we aspire to be a world leader in return to work after a workplace injury.
WorkSafe are striving to build a diverse workforce that reflects the Victorian community we serve.