Service Designer

Citi; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 170,000 - 241,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking a Service Designer to connect business strategy with user experiences across end-to-end journeys. You will collaborate with UX, Research, Product, Engineering, Operations, and Business teams to design AI-enabled workflows and improvements that balance human touchpoints with automated processes.

Reporting to the Head of Service Design, this individual contributor role focuses on shaping strategy, designing artifacts, and guiding governance for transformation across the bank.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in service design or related fields.
• Familiarity with AI capabilities and translating them into workflow opportunities.
• Systems-thinking problem solving and ability to influence architecture.
• Experience partnering with UX, Research, Product, Operations, Engineering, and Business teams.
• Strong communication and ability to influence cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design leadership and vision for cross-functional initiatives.
• Scope and plan service design initiatives across journeys or platforms.
• Assess AI use cases and design AI-enabled steps within end-to-end experiences.
• Create journey maps, service blueprints, and artifacts using internal AI tools.
• Engage stakeholders, plan co-design workshops, and present insights to leadership.

Skills

Design leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder engagement

Ethical judgement

Systems thinking

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree (nice‑to‑have)

Tools

Figma

FigJam

Microsoft Office

Claude

Gemini

Figma Make

Job description

As a Service Designer, you will connect business strategy to user experience by aligning people, process, technology, and touchpoints across end-to-end experiences to drive efficiency, reduce risk, and improve customer and employee outcomes. In partnership with UX, Research, Product, Engineering, Operations, and Business teams, you will contribute to the design of new and improved experiences — including identifying where AI can enhance or automate workflows and how AI-enabled processes fit within broader end-to-end service experiences. Through mapping and visualization tools, co-design workshops, strategic frameworks, and the organization's internal AI-powered design tools, your work will directly influence service and product strategy and position the Design & UX organization as a catalyst for transformation across the bank.

This role reports to the Head of Service Design within the Design & User Experience organization and is an individual contributor role.

Responsibilities:

• Design Leadership & Vision:
  • Partner on early-stage cross-functional initiatives, supporting direction and Design & UX's representation in governance and strategic decision making.
  • Apply service design tools, methods, and mindsets into design and product processes to increase clarity, efficacy, and quality of work on new and existing experiences.
  • Advocate for service design methods, tools, and mindsets within Design & UX and with stakeholders' teams; acting as a day-to-day practitioner and resource for peers
  • Appropriately assess risk — including but not limited to AI-related considerations — and apply sound ethical judgement across service design practices.
• Service Transformation & Design Strategy:
  • Scope, with guidance, service design initiatives for defined journeys or platforms based on objectives and business, user, and stakeholder needs, selecting appropriate methods, activities, and artifacts.
  • Plan, conduct, and synthesize qualitative stakeholder and end‑user discovery research independently or in partnership with the Research team.
  • In partnership with Product, Process Re-engineering, and Operations, assess and help prioritize in-journey, cross-journey, and cross-platform opportunities — including AI use cases, automations, and updates to processes, platforms, policies, or operating models — with consideration for end-to-end, end-user value rather than isolated steps, and shaping how AI-enabled steps connect to human touchpoints and handoffs.
  • Contribute to future‑state strategies and help identify high‑level capabilities, requirements, roadmaps, and change‑management elements needed to bridge vision to execution.
  • Contribute to journey orchestration and journey‑knowledge management for assigned platforms or lines of business
• Artifacts & Decisioning Tools:
  • Design provocations and visual representations of insights, including journey, process, and ecosystem maps, service blueprints, infographics, and conceptual wireframes or prototypes — using a combination of traditional design tools and the firm's internal AI-enabled tools.
  • Use the firm’s internal AI tools, including Figma Make and Claude and Gemini models, to accelerate day-today work, including research synthesis, insight generation, concept development, and artifact creation.
  • Adapt artifacts across audiences and levels of elevation to support specific objectives, from informing UX execution to persuading senior leadership.
• Stakeholder Engagement
  • Build stakeholder relationships and support decision making by presenting perspectives and tradeoffs
  • Plan, coordinate, and facilitate in‑person or digital co‑design workshops
  • Develop and deliver presentations for executive leadership and peers that clearly communicate insights, strategies, and results through tailored storytelling.

Qualifications:

Service design and design strategy are interdisciplinary practices and we welcome candidates with varied work experiences; Experience in financial services and/or regulated environments is nice-to-have. Candidates are required to have the following:

• 6+ years of relevant experience in service design, process reengineering, design strategy, user experience, user research, innovation strategy, business transformation, or management consulting.
• Familiarity with core AI capabilities and some practical experience translating them into workflow opportunities (e.g., document extraction, automated decisioning, maker‑checker automation) with exposure to how AI agents coordinate and operate within end‑to‑end service experiences.
• Orientation toward systems‑thinking problem solving, with the ability to understand, illustrate, communicate, and influence business and systems architecture.
• Experience partnering with UX, Research, Product, Process Reengineering, Operations, Engineering, and Business teams to design complex software solutions under ambiguous circumstances and shifting priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize well, communicate clearly, and build influence across cross‑functional teams.
• Solid program or project management skills.
• Experience using digital collaborative whiteboards, graphic or interface design tools (including Figma / FigJam), and research/insight/repository platforms; willingness to use Microsoft Office.
• Growing familiarity using AI tools to support service‑design workflows—including research synthesis, insight generation, concept development, and rapid creation of artifacts such as journey maps, service blueprints, and scenario visualizations.

In addition to the above, we are seeking candidates with one or more of the following areas of experience:

• Contributing to the service design or experience strategy for enterprise products
• Supporting process re-engineering or operations design to innovate a legacy business
• Participating in organizational design or change management as part of a digital transformational, cultural shift or enterprise learning program
• Contributing to the scaling of a design thinking, design strategy, or design research practice within a larger organization

Education:

• Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master's degree is nice-to-have

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Digital Design Engineering

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Time Type:

Full time

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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$120,800.00 - $170,800.00

Salary shown is for full-time positions and will be prorated for part-time hires based on number of hours worked.

The hourly rate corresponding to the annual range:

$61.94 - $87.58

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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