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Company Description
Version 1 has celebrated 30 years in business and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.
We’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of what we do:
- UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
- 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
- 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
- Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
- Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW
We’re a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you!
Job Description
Content designers make the complex simple. For our clients, you will be creating accessible, inclusive products and services that are easy to understand and use. You will work with organisations to understand their goals, improve user journeys, content quality, and the service they need to provide.
You will be able to work closely with other disciplines within agile delivery teams. In particular user researchers, service designers, and interaction designers, as well as influential stakeholders such as service owners and policy teams.
Qualifications
Agile working. You understand agile methodology and how to apply agile ways of working to designing content. You know how to make sure you and the team has an awareness of user needs and how individual contributions link to broader objectives. You'll share work early and often, encourage team and cross-functional collaboration and promote consistency in communications. You can work in a fast-paced environment, using iterative and flexible approaches to deliver outcomes rapidly. You can use platforms and tools like Figma and Jira to collaborate, manage and document your work to others.
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Stakeholder relationship management. You can identify important stakeholders, tailoring communication to their needs, and work with teams to build these relationships. You have experience representing the user to these groups and using evidence to build consensus to deliver the best outcome.
Strategic thinking. You can understand strategies and policies, providing guidance to others on working to deliver the policy intent and the strategic vision. You know how to evaluate current strategies to ensure the policy, organisation and user requirements are being met and exceeded where possible.
User focus. You can identify tasks that will provide insight into a problem. You can formulate hypotheses and make decisions based on user research findings and data. You can translate user stories into content that meets users’ needs and propose suitable designs and solutions. You can use quantitative and qualitative data about users to turn user insights into outcomes.
User-centred content design. You can make complex language and processes easy to understand, presenting the right information at the right time in a format that users need. You have excellent editorial skills, an eye for detail and experience publishing digital content. You understand how to make content accessible to all. Additionally, you have practical understanding of UK government content design standards and accessibility requirements.
Prototyping. You know how to bring analytics and user research findings into your design work and how to work collaboratively with researchers, designers and developers. You understand the value of using different prototyping techniques and how to select the best option for different audiences and outcomes.
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Why Version 1?
At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.
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- Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits
- Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme
- Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance
- Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme
- Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies
- Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat
- Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform.
- Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.
And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.
Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer
We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring including those shaped by disability and neurodiversity.
We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact Ashley.Smith@version1.com at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially.
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