Senior Service Designer

JOB TITLE:
Senior Service Designer (12-Month FTC)

LOCATION:
Halifax or Leeds or Manchester

SALARY:
£76,194 - £89,640

HOURS:
Full-Time

DURATION:
12-Month Fixed-Term Contract

WORKING PATTERN:
Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time in the office.

About this opportunity
We're looking for an experienced Service Designer to join our Colleague Channels Platform and lead an Experience Design squad. This is a unique opportunity to define and enhance the journeys in which support both colleagues and customers as we reimagine and evolve the end-to-end experience during this pivotal time.

We need someone who can work effectively with Product Owners, Customer Journey Managers, Researchers and fellow designers to take propositions from concept to reality.

As a Senior Service Designer, your role will include:

• Working effectively and confidently as part of agile teams to help uncover priorities, visualise outcomes and define scope.
• Collaborating closely within the multidisciplinary team of designers, product owners and engineers.
• Driving the strategic vision for our colleague channels platform, facilitating collaboration across organisational boundaries. You will ensure that every decision is guided by colleague, customer, and market insight, shaping and enhancing propositions and services that deliver real value.
• Facilitating workshops and discussions with various collaborators and partners, ensuring that the business context, needs and risks are well understood and that key decisions are well-informed.
• Communicating with colleagues and customers to manage expectations and incorporate multiple perspectives in the definition of solutions.
• Researching and documenting current state services and experiences, and prototyping future state services.
• Leading others to make good experience design decisions, bringing the user perspective to the forefront and challenging the validity of constraints.
• Taking responsibility for both personal development and the development of others, helping them to succeed through coaching and mentoring.
• Being an active member of the design community to share knowledge, create ideas, and embed principles of design across a range of product, service and customer journeys.

Experience in a range of research and design methods, including at least some of the following, is critical:

• Design Thinking
• Customer Journey Mapping
• Service Blueprinting
• Contextual Enquiry
• Stakeholder Interviews
• Insight and Horizon Scanning
• Persona and Archetype Development
• Co-creation, Ideation and Storyboarding

About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus scheme
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?
Apply today and find out more