Senior Interaction Designer

Version 1; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit sharing

Career development programs

Flexible/remote working

Pension

Private healthcare

Life assurance

Financial advice

Employee discount

Gym discounts

Mindfulness workshops

Employee Assistance Programme

Excellence and Star Awards

ESG and community initiatives

Job summary

Version 1 is seeking a Senior Interaction Designer to shape how users engage with digital services. You will define flows, behaviours, and interface patterns across multidisciplinary teams, bridging design and engineering to ensure feasible, accessible solutions.

You will develop high-fidelity prototypes, extend design systems, and collaborate with researchers to iterate based on evidence. Strong emphasis on WCAG 2.2 compliance, performance, and cross-journey consistency.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing interactions for complex digital products and services in Agile environments.
• Expertise in creating high-fidelity prototypes and interaction models using tools such as Figma (including components and variants).
• Proven ability to design scalable, reusable patterns within design systems.

Responsibilities

• Design detailed interaction patterns, user flows, and interface behaviours for complex digital services
• Create high-fidelity prototypes to communicate interaction logic, validate design decisions, and support delivery
• Define micro-interactions, system states, validation patterns, and edge cases to ensure robust user experiences
• Apply and extend design systems, including the GOV.UK Design System, contributing reusable components and patterns
• Collaborate closely with engineers to ensure designs are implemented accurately and meet accessibility and performance requirements
• Ensure all designs meet WCAG 2.2 accessibility standards and responsive design principles
• Work closely with user researchers and UX designers to iterate interactions based on evidence and feedback
• Contribute to end‑to‑end service design, ensuring interactions align across journeys and touchpoints
• Maintain consistency across products through contribution to shared component libraries and design standards
• Document interaction specifications clearly to support development and handover

Skills

Experience into complex interactions

High-fidelity prototypes

Design systems GOV.UK

WCAG 2.2 accessibility

Frontend familiarity JS frameworks

Engineer/research collaboration

Tools

Figma

GOV.UK Design System

JavaScript frameworks

Job description

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.

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

As a Senior Interaction Designer, you will design how users interact with digital services—defining flows, behaviours, and interface patterns that enable intuitive, accessible experiences.

Working as part of multidisciplinary teams, you will translate user needs and service requirements into clear interaction models, ensuring that services are usable, consistent, and aligned with modern design standards.

You will play a key role in bridging design and engineering—ensuring that interactions are not only well designed, but also technically feasible and implemented to a high standard.

• Design detailed interaction patterns, user flows, and interface behaviours for complex digital services
• Create high-fidelity prototypes to communicate interaction logic, validate design decisions, and support delivery
• Define micro-interactions, system states, validation patterns, and edge cases to ensure robust user experiences
• Apply and extend design systems, including the GOV.UK Design System, contributing reusable components and patterns
• Collaborate closely with engineers to ensure designs are implemented accurately and meet accessibility and performance requirements
• Ensure all designs meet WCAG 2.2 accessibility standards and responsive design principles
• Work closely with user researchers and UX designers to iterate interactions based on evidence and feedback
• Contribute to end‑to‑end service design, ensuring interactions align across journeys and touchpoints
• Maintain consistency across products through contribution to shared component libraries and design standards
• Document interaction specifications clearly to support development and handover

You will also need to be eligible for SC Clearance meaning 5 years continuous UK residency

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing interactions for complex digital products and services in Agile environments
• Expertise in creating high-fidelity prototypes and interaction models using tools such as Figma (including components and variants)
• Proven ability to design scalable, reusable patterns within design systems
• Experience working with, or alongside, the GOV.UK Design System or similar established design systems
• Strong understanding of interaction design principles, including usability, feedback, and system behaviour
• Familiarity with modern front‑end approaches, including component‑based development and JavaScript frameworks
• Strong knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2) and practical application in interface design
• Ability to collaborate effectively within multidisciplinary teams, particularly with developers and researchers
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain and justify interaction design decisions to a range of stakeholders

Additional Information

• 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; Version 1 Pension with a 5% employee‑matched contribution, 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.
• 24 days holiday allowance plus Public Holidays, 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 & quarterly Star Awards.
• 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.

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 [e-mail] at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially.