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Referral Bonuses

Sick Leave

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EAP, Employee Assistance Programme, Study Grants, Travel Privileges on Great Journeys of New Zealand and InterIslander.

Care and Appreciation

Work from Home

Inclusive Workspace

Company Supplied Technology

Mental Health Workshops

Visa Sponsorship

Extended Annual Leave

Bereavement Leave

Counselling Services

Wellbeing Support

Long Service Rewards

Extended Parental Leave

The NZ Rail Staff Welfare Trust- The Trust offers reimbursement of medical expenses for members and their families, access to affordable holiday homes, and group discounts on additional insurances.

Employee Discounts and Rewards

Indigenous Rights

Living Wage

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Creative Design Lead | Wellington <ul><li>Lead creative delivery across Interislander, Great Journeys New Zealand and KiwiRail Passenger </li><li>Wellington based </li><li>Permanent, hands-on design leadership opportunity </li></ul> <h3>Position Description </h3> He kōrero mō mātou | About us At KiwiRail, we&#x27;re proud to connect people, goods and communities across Aotearoa. Through Interislander and Great Journeys New Zealand, our Passenger business delivers some of the country&#x27;s most recognised transport and tourism experiences.  As Passenger continues to evolve, high-quality, accessible and effective design is essential to how we communicate with customers and bring our brands and experiences to life. This is an opportunity to lead the in-house studio responsible for delivering creative work across a diverse mix of customer and business channels. He whakamārama mō te tūranga mahi | About the role This is a true player-coach role: equal parts hands-on senior creative and team leadership. You&#x27;ll tackle some of our most important creative work yourself, while coaching and developing the team, setting the creative standard and process, and building a more mature, high-performing in-house studio. Reporting to the Senior Marketing Manager, the Creative &amp; Design Lead is a senior, hands-on design role responsible for delivering complex and high-priority creative work while leading the day-to-day operation of the in-house Passenger Design Studio and two Designer roles. You will manage studio intake, workflow, priorities and production standards, ensuring briefs and approvals are clear, work is allocated to the right resource, and stakeholders have visibility of timing and delivery. You will also provide creative direction, coach the design team, and use external specialists where additional capability or capacity is required. To be successful in the role you’re someone who can balance creative quality with pace, accessibility, production requirements, customer needs, and practical delivery. You understand that a brand is much more than logos and colours. You&#x27;ll help translate brand strategy, customer propositions and campaign ideas into creative work that feels distinctive, relevant and consistent, whether that&#x27;s digital content, a campaign, customer communication or physical experience. Your key responsibilities will include: <ul><li>Personally, designing and delivering complex, high-priority work across digital, social, print, websites, events, presentations, signage and physical formats. </li><li>Leading the daily operation of the Passenger Design Studio and developing two Designers. </li><li>Providing creative direction, feedback, and quality assurance across studio output. </li><li>Managing studio intake, briefs, workflow, priorities, capacity, approvals, files and delivery commitments. </li><li>Ensuring creative work meets customer, channel, accessibility, production and approved brand requirements. </li><li>Determining when work should be completed internally or supported by external creative and production specialists. </li><li>Managing approved suppliers, production schedules, quality, costs and delivery. </li><li>Improving studio efficiency through templates, reusable assets, digital tools, automation and approved AI-enabled ways of working. </li><li>Great creative work here is collaborative. You&#x27;ll work across Marketing, Product, Customer Experience, Digital, Revenue and Operations, understanding different perspectives and helping teams land on solutions that work for the customer, the brand and the business. </li><li>You&#x27;ll be a trusted creative partner to teams across Passenger, helping stakeholders turn an opportunity, problem or sometimes ambiguous idea into a clear brief and compelling creative response. </li><li>Keeping stakeholders informed about priorities, timing, decisions, risks and delivery. </li></ul> Ngā pūkenga e rapu nei mātou | What you&#x27;ll bring We&#x27;re looking for a highly capable, hands-on designer who combines strong creative judgement with organised and reliable studio leadership. You&#x27;ll bring: <ul><li>Significant senior design and creative experience across digital, social, campaign, print and physical customer experiences, and have an accessible portfolio to prove this. </li><li>Strong brand thinking and the ability to translate brand strategy and customer propositions into distinctive, consistent creative work. </li><li>Excellent creative judgement and an eye for detail, craft and consistency. You know what great looks like and can help others get there. </li><li>Experience balancing hands-on senior creative work with leading, coaching and developing a design team. </li><li>Experience helping a creative team mature its capability, standards and ways of working. </li><li>Strong conceptual and visual problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn ambiguity into a clear brief and creative direction. </li><li>A collaborative style and experience working across Marketing, Product, Customer Experience, Digital, Commercial and operational teams. </li><li>An understanding of creative effectiveness, with curiosity about customer insight, feedback and performance and how these can improve future work. </li><li>Confidence challenging briefs and ideas constructively while building strong stakeholder relationships. </li><li>Experience across evolving creative formats and tools, including video, motion, digital and emerging AI-enabled workflows. </li><li>Strong production knowledge and attention to detail, ensuring creative work is accurate, accessible, consistent, fit for purpose and meets quality standards. </li><li>A relevant tertiary qualification within the creative and design space, or equivalent professional experience. </li></ul> Nōu te rourou | What&#x27;s in it for you This is a rewarding opportunity to combine senior creative practice with team and studio leadership across nationally recognised passenger and tourism brands. <ul><li>A hands-on creative leadership role with broad visibility across KiwiRail Passenger. </li><li>The opportunity to shape studio workflow, capability, quality and ways of working. </li><li>A varied portfolio spanning digital, social, print, customer communications, events and physical environments. </li><li>The chance to introduce practical tools, templates and approved technology that improve creative delivery. </li><li>An opportunity to coach designers and build a collaborative, accountable and high-performing studio. </li></ul> ua rite, kia rite | Ready to make a difference? If you&#x27;re an experienced design leader who enjoys solving visual communication challenges, developing others and delivering high-quality creative work at pace, we&#x27;d love to hear from you. Join KiwiRail and help create clear, engaging and memorable design experiences for Passenger customers across Aotearoa. Applications close: Thursday 5th of November 2026 The title of this position has been changed for advertising purposes. The official position title is Studio Design Lead.

KiwiRail

Creative Design Lead | Wellington

**Wellington | Opportunity to shape projects, clients and future growth** An opportunity for an experienced architectural professional who enjoys more than just the design and delivery of projects. This role will suit someone confident building client relationships, identifying new opportunities and helping bring work into the business. Working across a varied portfolio you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to project delivery while playing an active role in developing new client relationships and growing the practice’s presence. Whether your background is in a larger architectural practice or a smaller, design-led studio, you’ll bring the experience, initiative and commercial awareness to make an impact. **The Role** You’ll combine architectural project leadership with client engagement and business development. This includes: <ul><li>Leading projects from design development through to documentation and delivery.</li><li>Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients, consultants and industry contacts.</li><li>Being confident in front of clients, presenting ideas, understanding project needs and identifying opportunities for future work.</li><li>Contributing to proposals, tenders and new business opportunities.</li><li>Producing and overseeing high-quality design and technical documentation.</li><li>Coordinating consultants and working through construction, contract administration and site matters.</li><li>Helping shape the future direction and growth of the Wellington team, with scope to take on greater leadership responsibility over time.</li></ul> **About You** You’ll be an experienced Architectural Designer or Architect with a sound understanding of the New Zealand construction industry and the confidence to represent a practice professionally. You’ll ideally bring: <ul><li>A relevant architectural qualification, such as a BArch, MArch or equivalent.</li><li>Strong knowledge of the NZ Building Code, construction methods and industry regulations.</li><li>Solid design, technical documentation and project coordination skills.</li><li>Confidence using Revit and other relevant design software.</li><li>Experience managing projects, consultants and client relationships.</li><li>A proactive approach to business development, with the confidence to network, develop new relationships and help secure work.</li><li>Strong communication skills and the ability to build trust with clients and colleagues.</li></ul> Registration is welcome but not essential. You may already be registered, be working towards registration, or be an experienced architectural professional. **What’s on Offer?** This is an opportunity to take on a broader role, combining your architectural experience with client engagement and business growth. You’ll have the scope to influence the projects you work on, strengthen industry relationships and contribute to the future direction of the Wellington practice. For someone who enjoys taking ownership, building relationships and being involved in a diverse range of projects, this could be a rewarding next move.

RobLawMax Recruitment

Senior Architectural Designer

About Wellumio Wellumio is a venture-backed medical device company on a mission to create universal access to diagnostic imaging. Magnetic resonance is the gold standard modality in medical imaging due to its exceptional soft tissue contrast. However, its accessibility is limited by high costs and the need to transport patients to scanners. At Wellumio, we are driven by a simple yet transformative idea: instead of bringing patients to the scanner, we bring the scanner to the patients, wherever it is needed. By providing point-of-care imaging, Wellumio enables healthcare professionals to deliver earlier diagnoses, faster treatments, and better outcomes. Our second-generation scanner, Axana, is 99% lighter than conventional MRI systems, making it the most portable head magnetic resonance imaging system in the global brain and neuroimaging market. The company&#x27;s first target application is acute stroke, a leading cause of human mortality and disability. Currently, only 1.5% of patients receive treatment within the critical time window due to reliance on in-hospital imaging. Wellumio&#x27;s point-of-care solution addresses this, making effective stroke treatment accessible wherever patients are. With stroke projected to cause 7.5 million deaths and cost $1 trillion annually by 2030, there is an urgent need for cost-effective technologies that can streamline care pathways for stroke and other neurological conditions where time is critical. Why should you be part of Wellumio&#x27;s success story? <ul><li>To work with a talented and passionate team dedicated to positively impacting the medical device industry.</li><li>To grow your skills and knowledge through ongoing training and development opportunities.</li><li>To work in a dynamic environment that rewards creativity, innovation, hard work, and continuous improvement.</li></ul> At Wellumio we&#x27;re challenging dominant models of clinical service delivery by fusing technology, design innovation, medical expertise, and systems-level thinking to create imaging solutions that put the needs of patients first. About the Role The Usability Engineering Specialist provides ongoing human factors and usability engineering expertise to Wellumio, supporting the design and validation of Axana&#x27;s user interface and clinical workflow. This is an ongoing contract engagement through May 2027, focused on ensuring Axana meets IEC 62366-1 requirements and that its usability in clinical environments is systematically studied, documented, and improved. This is the primary point of accountability for usability engineering at Wellumio, working across R&amp;D, clinical, and quality functions. Key ResponsibilitiesWorking in partnership with relevant departments, you will:											Usability Engineering Process (IEC 62366-1)<ul><li>Develop and maintain the usability engineering file in full accordance with IEC 62366-1</li><li>Define the use specification: intended users, intended use environments, and intended user interactions for Axana</li><li>Identify, analyse, and evaluate use-related risks that could result in harm to patients or clinical users</li></ul> 										Formative &amp; Summative Evaluation<ul><li>Plan, conduct, and document formative usability studies throughout the device development cycle</li><li>Design the summative (validation) usability evaluation: test scenarios, tasks, participant criteria, and acceptance criteria</li><li>Produce usability evaluation reports suitable for inclusion in the technical file and regulatory submissions</li></ul> 										User Interface Design Input<ul><li>Provide evidence-based recommendations to hardware, software, and clinical teams on user interface design</li><li>Translate user research findings into specific design requirements and usability test criteria</li><li>Participate in design reviews to evaluate the usability implications of proposed design changes</li></ul>										Clinical Workflow Analysis<ul><li>Conduct contextual inquiry and task analysis in clinical environments relevant to Axana&#x27;s use contexts (ED, ICU, ambulance)</li><li>Define and document the clinical workflows Axana must support without introducing new use errors</li><li>Work with the clinical team to validate that the device integrates into established care pathways effectively</li></ul> 										Risk &amp; Regulatory Support<ul><li>Contribute use-related risk analysis to the ISO 14971 risk management file</li><li>Advise on usability evidence required for TGA, FDA, and CE regulatory submissions</li><li>Maintain awareness of FDA Human Factors Guidance and IEC 62366 regulatory interpretation developments</li></ul> Qualifications &amp; Experience <ul><li>Degree in Human Factors Engineering, Cognitive Psychology, Industrial Design, or equivalent</li><li>5+ years of usability engineering experience applied to medical devices or safety-critical systems</li><li>Demonstrated track record executing IEC 62366-1 compliant usability engineering programmes</li><li>Experience conducting clinical environment observation or contextual inquiry preferred</li></ul> 										Technical Capabilities<ul><li>IEC 62366-1 application: summative and formative study design, execution, and reporting</li><li>Human factors methods: task analysis, heuristic evaluation, think-aloud protocols, and usability testing</li><li>Risk integration: connecting use-related risks to ISO 14971 risk management activities</li><li>FDA Human Factors Guidance and IEC 62366 regulatory interpretation</li></ul> 										Skills &amp; Behaviours<ul><li>Champions the end user — the clinical professional and their patient — in every design discussion</li><li>Translates user research into engineering-actionable requirements, not just observational notes</li><li>Produces regulatory-grade documentation without making it inaccessible or over-engineered</li><li>Reliable and professional in a remote, async-first engagement environment</li></ul> What Success Looks Like <ul><li>Usability engineering file is complete, current, and demonstrably aligned with IEC 62366-1 requirements</li><li>Summative evaluation is fully designed, ready to execute when the device reaches required maturity</li><li>Use-related risks are documented in the risk management file and mitigations are validated</li><li>Regulatory submission usability evidence package is complete and submission-ready for all target markets</li><li>Design team consistently consults usability engineering before finalising interface decisions</li></ul>

Icehouse Ventures

Usability Engineering Specialist (Contract)