Change Mobilization, Service Designer – Associate

AWM Service Design Practice

Mission – to be created by the people joining to lead and shape this Practice.

Vision – A vibrant creative team making tangible the target Asset and Wealth Management (AWM) service experience and prototyping towards it.

Location – small and nimble teams in NYC, London, Hong Kong, and Mumbai or Bengaluru. What we mean by ‘Service Design’ – Service Design is grounded on 2 fundamental dimensions:

• Horizontal / end-to-end – Intentionally setting-out to understand the full end-to-end target service experience, and value proposition, across all touch-points with which the client or internal user client interacts
• Vertical/ full-stack organisational alignment – map and track outside-in from the desired client-experience, including the visible touch-points known and used by the end- customer (aka front-stage), to the processes, people, policies, and tools within the organisation (aka back-stage), in order to implement the target service

Important to us: 

• Empathy and advocacy.  Seeking to truly understand those we serve, including their goals, pain, and ideas, so that we and others can speak insightfully on their behalf
• Purpose and meaning.  Helping groups grow in their understanding and use of Design to solve ‘wicked’ problems and identify a more desirable future
• Making and learning.  Prototyping and testing ideas collaboratively with other key partner practices, so that we can learn quickly how to enable both customers& employees to achieve their goals in new and innovative ways
• Culture of creativity. Cultivating an environment in which creative people thrive, and providing opportunities for others to learn about creativity and design and be given opportunities to apply these skills with the support of senior leaders

The Position: Service Designer

Service Designers design the end-to-end journey of a service, enabling a user to achieve their goals, and the business deliver target outcomes.  Their work may involve the creation of, or changes to, processes, products, and content across both digital and offline channels provided by different areas of the business.

Service Designers come from many backgrounds, and we are interested in those who, in addition to being an experienced Service Design practitioner, have depth in one or more of the following areas: Research, Visual Design & Illustration, Prototyping, Value Proposition, Organisational  Design.

Your contribution at JPM

• With a bagful of activities at-the-ready backed-up by a deep knowledge of design thinking, you will be able to write Service Design project proposals, run workshops that bring the user to the centre, defining an optimum service experience
• The artefacts you produce will include Service Design Blueprints, illustrated Journey Maps, Concept Designs, Service Experience Prototypes, Empathy Maps, and Value Propositions, for the creation and evolution of products and services
• You will be able to plan, conduct, report-on, and advocate for a variety of research methodologies
• Exploring service metrics with the Director of Service Design, you will also partner with technologists, product managers, and business teams, on the feasibility & implementation of these, leading service quality reviews with senior business leaders.
• Mentoring leaders in the firm from non-design backgrounds who choose to sponsor the adoption of design thinking and design doing in their respective business groups
• Coaching junior colleagues, or those taking part in the design training and design apprenticeship scheme who are considering reskilling and moving into a design role
• Supporting the business to engage external agencies, leading the proposal process, overseeing activities and deliverables, managing stakeholder expectations, escalating issues, and ensuring work is aligned to the values and principles of the SD Practice

Qualifications

You are someone who wants to influence your own development, who views a job title not as the final definition of who you are, but the starting point. Under no-illusions about the challenge, but resolute to embody the change you want to see, you want to be part of a team who take deep care in their craft and go out of their way to support one-another.

• At least 2 to 5 years of Design Thinking or Service Design experience (Service Designer) / 10+ years of experience (Lead Service Designer)
• Hands-on experience of designing and testing service prototypes across a variety of digital touch-points and non-digital channels
• Excellent communication and organization skills and a strong speaker and presenter, at either conferences or academic institutions
• Strong project and people management skills. Must be able to function as a project leader as well as an individual contributor
• Proficient with design and prototyping tools such as Adobe, Sketch, In Vision, or other similar tools used widely in the design community
• Knowledge of capabilities and limitations of Web technologies such as HTML
• A passion for creating products that resonate emotionally with people

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.