Service Designer - Newcastle

Accenture; Newcastle; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days vacation per year

Private medical insurance

3 extra days leave per year for Charit

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Service Designer in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, with hybrid working requiring 3 days in the office. You’ll craft end-to-end services, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, and use user-centred design to optimise experiences for clients.

The role emphasises accessibility, sustainability, and governance across design standards. You will support researchers, create service blueprints, and lead workshops to align stakeholders and deliver value.

Qualifications

• Experience with Service Designer role or similar field.
• Advocating for User-Centred Design and accessibility.
• Negotiating with and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Familiarity with design systems, libraries, style guides and patterns.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and user needs.
• Support User Researchers with insights to inform design decisions.
• Champion user-centred design and communicate its value, including accessibility.
• Create service blueprints and user journey maps to visualise end-to-end experiences.
• Facilitate workshops with stakeholders and delivery teams to maintain alignment.
• Ensure adherence to client design standards and best practices.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams (Interaction Designers, Researchers, Content Designers, Developers, Analysts).
• Present work and rationale to internal teams and client stakeholders.
• Use evidence to iterate on designs and validate via testing.

Skills

GDS design principles

User-Centred design

Stakeholder negotiation

Design systems

Agile environment

Mentoring juniors

Prototyping languages (HTML/Markdown/N

Tools

HTML

Markdown

Nunjucks

Job description

Service Designer

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Hybrid Working: Please note - This role will require you to work from our Newcastle, Cobalt Business Park office for a minimum of 3 days per week.

Note: The above information relates to a specific client requirement.

As a team:

As a service designer you’d be responsible for crafting the complete end-to-end experience of a service. Your role would be to optimise and enhance services to ensure they not only meet the needs of users but also align with the broader goals of the business. Service designers possess deep knowledge of design principles and systems, with a strong focus on both digital and offline channels. You would work collaboratively with various teams to ensure everyone is aligned and working toward a common vision. By identifying pain points and opportunities, you’d define and refine services to ensure a seamless and effective experience for the user.

As a Service Designer, you will:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and identify user needs.
• Support User Researchers in gathering insights from users to inform design decisions.
• Champion user-centred design practices and effectively communicate the value of design - emphasising inclusivity, accessibility, and environmental sustainability.
• Create service blueprints and user journey maps to visualise the end-to-end experience and solve complex problems.
• Facilitate workshops with stakeholders and delivery teams to maintain alignment, encourage engagement, and gather insights.
• Ensure adherence to the client’s design standards, systems, and best practices.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams—including Interaction Designers, User Researchers, Content Designers, Developers, and Performance Analysts.
• Confidently present work and rationale to both internal teams and client stakeholders.
• Use evidence and data to iterate on designs, form hypotheses, and validate them through testing.

The following skills and experience are essential for this role:

• Relevant experience as a Service Designer or similar field
• Working with the Government Digital Service (GDS) design principals
• Experience advocating for User-Centred Design
• Experience negotiating with and influencing senior stakeholders
• Working with Design systems/libraries, style guides and existing patterns/guidelines

Set yourself apart:

• Working in an Agile or similar multidisciplinary environment
• Using HTML, Markdown, Nunjucks or other prototyping languages
• Strong accessibility knowledge
• Leading a team or mentoring junior designers

What’s in it for you:

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will alsohave an extensive benefits package which includes 25 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

• 25 days’ vacation per year
• private medical insurance
• 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services, we are known for.

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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