Lead Service Designer

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

As a Lead Service Designer in our digital customer experience team, you’ll own the design of world-class customer journeys and service models across sales and service experiences. You’ll lead Service Design across Agile teams, drive service design strategy, and be accountable for outcomes that reflect our brand and meet customer needs.

Sitting within the Customer Experience Centre of Excellence, you’ll contribute to CX strategy, design excellence, and performance across product roadmaps for the UK & Ireland. From joining Sky to engaging with our latest services, we’re driven by one purpose: to create better experiences for our customers.

What you’ll do:

• Lead across a team of service designers to analyse, define, and improve end-to-end, multi-channels journeys that meet diverse customer needs and align with accessibility standards.
• Drive strategic service design across portfolios, shaping journeys that align with business goals and championing the customer voice.
• Partner with cross-functional leaders in Product, Design, Tech, Ops, and Architecture to deliver joined-up, scalable service solutions that meet real user needs.
• Own the definition, evolution and adoption of service blueprints and journey maps across the customer lifecycle, and develop operational models that enable rather than restrict.
• Work with design leadership to evolve service design methods, improve design operations, and drive adoption of AI-enhanced tools to improve service quality and efficiency.
• Define end-to-end strategies, experience principles, frameworks, customer journeys and CX KPIs that connect digital, assisted, and real-world touchpoints with clarity and consistency.

What you’ll bring:

• Track record of leading service design and delivering impactful service design outcomes across large-scale digital products, services, and operations.
• Expert-level skills in journey mapping, service blueprinting, stakeholder mapping, workshop facilitation and systems thinking.
• Advanced use of journey maps, empathy maps, and insight repositories to embed customer needs throughout delivery
• Mastery in accessibility, user research methods to understand customer problems and behaviours, and analytics tools (Usertesting, Adobe Analytics) to understand and improve journeys.
• Strong storytelling, stakeholder influence, and resilience in fast-paced, evolving environments.