Service Designer 

Job Description:

We’re hiring a mid-weight service designer to support with mapping the end‑to‑end ecosystem, design accessible, GDS‑aligned service, and co‑create with partners across education and technology.

What we are looking for:

• Committed service designer with a proven track record, preferably working within local or central government or experience with complex systems
• Contributes to the selection of the service design approaches for projects and initiatives. Supports the adoption of agreed approaches.
• Desirable: Familiarity of GDS principles, design thinking, accessibility and social sciences
• Experience working as part of a wider design team and within a multidisciplinary squad
• Experience in receiving and giving feedback in an internal collaborative environment who take critique well as a chance to iterate and improve
• Experience working with agile methodologies and within an agile team and user centered design and research practices and how to integrate them into the agile process
• Strong understanding of service design best practices, and know when to challenge or simplify an approach, or challenge a known constraint
• Strong communicator with a high level of confidence managing both internal and external stakeholders at all levels of seniority, and can bridge the gap between technical and non-technical discussions
• Driven and possess the skills to perform effectively both as an individual contributor and collaboratively in a group setting.
• Holds knowledge of ways in which to turn research data into clear findings and insights to communicate with your team to inform design decisions and iterations.

You’ll work across Core Skills and Specialist pathways, test with real users, and improve continuously through evidence and feedback. If you thrive on complex, multi‑team challenges and want to make public services better for everyone, we’d love to hear from you.

What you’ll be doing:

• Collaborate with other designers, developers, business analysts and QA to arrive at the most suitable solution efficiently.
• Conduct evaluative research with clients/customers and key stakeholders, analysing their behaviours and desires to enhance their experience.
• Assess and analyse existing journeys to map them out to share the visualisations with the project team and stakeholders.
• Ability to map out existing/new processes based on stakeholder, customer, and client analysis, collaborate with other professionals to design new ways of optimising the user experience in a timely manner.
• Share findings with the wider team in an engaging and collaborative way, simplifying the complex into a more visual format and mapping out stakeholder’s / end users understanding of the journeys, suggesting opportunities for improvement.
• Plan, design and facilitate collaborative stakeholder and/or customer workshops that support and drive the project forward.
• Utilise design thinking to solve complex business and user problems.
• Conduct desk-based research and analysis, recruit participants for research such as ethnography, report and synthesise research, and manage research archiving and protection.
• Use service metrics / analytics data to inform design solutions.
• Understand and demonstrate experience in various service design methods, when to use these methods and how to apply them correctly
• Present clear findings that clients/colleagues can understand and use.
• Ensure the importance of services and processes framed around user needs is evangelised throughout our team, developing inclusive and accessible solutions by default, contribute to best practice guidelines and communicate between technical and nontechnical stakeholders to understand the bigger picture.
• Effectively work within a multidisciplinary team to ensure that user-driven design and development is conducted throughout.
• Align service design activities to inform decision making and action.
• Support in user research activities.
• Demonstrate good interpersonal skills and presentation skills to communicate with clients / project teams clearly and eloquently.