Senior Disruption Designer

Steampunk; Bloomington (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Steampunk seeks a Senior Disruption Designer to guide clients through our Design Intelligence framework, driving adoption across multiple workstreams of a large federal advisory program. You’ll focus on people impacted by change and shape change-enablement strategies across portfolios, identity, and workforce initiatives.

You’ll facilitate workshops, run readiness assessments, and craft compelling stories from research to inform training and communications.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in organizational change management, including large-scale tech or process transformations.
• Experience with change readiness, adoption measurement and stakeholder interviews.
• Ability to synthesize findings into action and training plans.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate workshops and interviews to frame pain points and change readiness.
• Synthesize research into stories and presentations for recommendations.
• Develop and deploy pilot and training campaigns with stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Agile teams to integrate change activities.

Skills

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Agile delivery

PowerPoint

Storytelling

Workshop facilitation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Mural

Job description

Overview

Steampunk is seeking a Senior Disruption Designer to guide clients through our Design Intelligence® framework, driving adoption across multiple workstreams of a large federal advisory program — from portfolio changes to workforce transformation. You'll focus on the people impacted by change, engaging them to embrace new ways of working while identifying and mitigating resistance.

Contributions

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate workshops and interviews to frame pain points, define problem statements, and determine change readiness and resistance areas
• Run change readiness assessments identifying change champions, pilot participants, and likely resistance ahead of major transitions
• Synthesize research and data into compelling stories and presentations that shape transformation and change-enablement recommendations
• Instrument adoption telemetry and run stakeholder pulse checks supporting shared-services adoption targets
• Facilitate Disruption Design workshops producing prioritized critical-path adoption plans across portfolio, identity, workforce, and communications initiatives
• Develop and deploy pilot plans, communication plans, and training campaigns in partnership with key stakeholders, supporting IT-change adoption targets
• Support workforce transition change management toward the program's staff-independence target
• Collaborate and communicate stakeholder and user needs across a cross-functional Agile team

Qualifications

Required:

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance
• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Organizational Development, Psychology, Business, or a related field
• 8+ years of organizational change management experience, including large-scale technology or process transformation programs, with strong grounding in established change management models and best practices
• Demonstrated experience with change readiness assessment methodologies and adoption measurement
• Experience conducting current-state assessments and future-state visioning to inform change and communication plans
• Experience conducting stakeholder interviews and synthesizing findings into action and training plans
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically across multiple concurrent workstreams and stakeholder ecosystems
• Proficiency with PowerPoint and collaboration/workshop tools (e.g., Mural)
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communications-campaign design skills
• Excellent written communication and presentation skills, including the ability to craft compelling stories from research and data
• Experience working within an Agile delivery framework, integrating change management activities into program cadences

Preferred:

• Federal or large enterprise client experience
• Experience supporting change management across multiple concurrent workstreams (portfolio, identity, workforce, communications)
• Prosci or CCMP change management certification
• Experience in Human-Centered Design / Customer Experience Design
• Experience collaborating within a multidisciplinary delivery team, including service designers, UX/CX designers, and technical specialists
• Previous experience working as a consultant

About steampunk

AboutSteampunk

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $120,000 to $180,000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.

Identity Statement

As part of the application process, you are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Steampunk is aChange Agentin the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through ourDesign Intelligence™ process, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges.If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.