Senior Service Designer

Are you a service designer with bags of experience leading Service Design? – coordinating customers, colleagues, and stakeholders; getting hands on with research and data to deliver insights; and creating artefacts that help organisations understand how to deliver great service and business value.

And you’re up for the challenge of being one of the first Service Designers at Nationwide.

This means doing the work of Service Design to help us deliver truly legendary service to our members in a way that aligns to our brand promise, our service principles and makes clear the benefits of being a member of a mutual building society. You’ll do this by being curious, empathetic and inclusive, as you balance the needs of myriad stakeholders.

It also means through your work, you’ll show us and not just tell us what service design means at Nationwide, what value it brings to us and our members, why we do it and how we do it.

What you’ll be doing

You will plan, design and carry out research activities to get a deep understanding of users.

You will work in an environment following Agile principles, in a multidisciplinary team, including content design, UI and UX design, business design, product and tech colleagues. You will design and map the multi-channel, multi-touchpoint end-to-end journey of services to help a user complete their goal and the business to unlock value, while ensuring we meet regulatory standards and other considerations.

You will ensure your work aligns to business strategy, service principles and design principles and be able to show this alignment clearly. You will understand the impact of the cultural, social and political context, using your toolkit of influencing styles to get the right inputs and buy-in to the approaches you take, from people across the whole of Nationwide.

About you

We’re looking for people with experience and skills in these areas:

• Transformation programme experience – experienced in working on programmes of work that transform siloed, departmental organisations into truly collaborative, service-oriented multidisciplinary teams.
• Outcomes focus – has a substantial body of work that shows how their approach to service design has led to better customer and business outcomes, innovation and organisational change.
• User focus – experienced in a variety of approaches to understanding users and their needs, translating their needs into user stories, and proposing design approaches or services to meet those needs.
• Research – ability to advocate for evidence-based decisions and backing this up by being able to select the appropriate research approach, performing and directing research before taking the outputs to generate multiple solutions to then test.
• Agile working – experience working in an evolving environment, using an iterative method and flexible approach to enable rapid delivery.
• Prototyping – ability to create or design appropriate fidelity of workable prototypes to take into research, and to test hypotheses and assumptions.
• Strategic thinking – ability to look for different sources of information to understand the impact of business issues, events, activities and their wider implications and long-term impact.
• Stakeholder management – communicating and working with stakeholders clearly and regularly, clarifying, consulting and considering impacts on their focus areas while ensuring we meet user needs and maximising value for members and the business.
• Self-motivation and flexibility – ability to direct own work and adapt plans according to changing plans.
• Communication skills – ability to communicate effectively and appropriately in spoken, written and visual formats.