Confidential briefing
Confidence: High
Hannah
Prepared for your Senior UX Designer Discovery
What stands out
Hannah talks about ownership in a way that keeps narrowing rather than broadening — consistently describes work where the decision sat with them.
That reads directly onto your side, where decision making happens close to delivery teams.
Recommended next step
Meet Hannah
Suggested first conversation:
- What ownership actually looks like inside your delivery teams.
- Which leadership behaviours bring out their best work.
- How the work here connects to something they'd care about.
You've not met before.
What we've learned
Ownership
Described in specifics rather than principles — consistently describes work where the decision sat with them.
Raised unprompted more than once, with different examples behind it.
Leadership
Works best where leadership is close to the work rather than above it — and the examples behind it were about decisions, not responsibilities.
Revisited deliberately, and Hannah did not soften it.
Mission
Hannah keeps returning to this without being asked: repeatedly prioritises meaningful government impact.
Heard across separate conversations months apart, described the same way each time.
Why we're confident
This began as a single remark about ownership. It has since reappeared in separate conversations months apart without changing shape.
- Ownership, leadership and mission each read the same way from Hannah's side and from yours, separately.
No prior relationship — the reasoning carries this on its own.
Worth discussing first
- What ownership actually looks like inside your delivery teams.
- Which leadership behaviours bring out their best work.
- How the work here connects to something they'd care about.
- How decisions get made, and where they get written down.
- What would make the first year successful here.
Context
Where they are today
Hannah is currently an UX Researcher, based in Reading, United Kingdom. Their employer is theirs to share once you've both agreed to talk.
Where they've operated
Mostly government, telecoms and technology.
Hannah has moved from Content Designer to UX Researcher over 16 years — widening responsibility rather than lateral moves. Not looking, but would take the right conversation. Status: not yet connected.