Senior Service Designer

UNAVAILABLE; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

This role guides government clients through our Design Intelligence framework, leading discovery sessions to uncover pain points and opportunities, ensuring user needs shape proposed solutions. You will create journey maps, service blueprints, roadmaps, personas and ecosystem maps, and collaborate with a cross-functional team in an Agile environment to deliver actionable recommendations.

A background in HCD or service design with a strong portfolio and ability to obtain a U.S.

Qualifications

• Requires ability to obtain a U.S. government Public Trust clearance.
• 6+ years in human centered design, service design, or customer experience design.
• Portfolio demonstrating ideology, methods, tools, skills, and craft.
• Experience conducting primary/secondary research including interviews and workshops.

Responsibilities

• Participate in discovery to understand client mission, goals, stakeholders, users and ecosystems.
• Conduct workshops and interviews to frame pain points and opportunities; define problem statements.
• Synthesize research to communicate insights and recommendations shaping strategy, service and workflow innovations.
• Create journey maps, service blueprints, roadmaps, personas, ecosystem and experience maps.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on a cross-functional team within an Agile environment.
• Understand technology constraints and integrate research into design considerations.
• Ensure all deliverables across projects are produced at high quality.

Skills

U.S. government security clearance

6+ years in HCD / service design

Strong portfolio

Research & workshop facilitation

Education

Degree in HCD or service design

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Mural

Lucidchart

Job description

Overview

As a Service Designer, you will be responsible for guiding government clients through our Design Intelligence™ framework, incorporating human-centered methods to solve end to end organization and experience challenges. You will lead and facilitate discovery sessions that uncover customer pain points and identify enterprise opportunities. You will serve as the voice of the customer, making sure their needs are considered and met within a proposed solution.

Responsibilities

• Participate in all aspects of discovery to understand: client mission and goals; stakeholders, users and their ecosystems; current state journeys; user segments; program and project objectives
• Conduct workshops and interviews to frame pain points and opportunities; define problem statements and validate hypothesis
• Synthesize research and data to communicate insights and make recommendations that will shape mission/program strategy, service and workflow innovations, and a compelling future experience vision
• Create journey maps, service blueprints, vision road maps, personas, ecosystem and experience maps that articulate needs, gaps, and actionable recommendations for organizational and process improvements
• Collaborate and communicate stakeholder and user needs on a cross functional team within an agile environment
• Understand and embrace the specifications and constraints of a given technology, platform and/or operational environmentand understand how research should be integrated into technological considerations
• Ensureall deliverables across a variety of projects are produced at the highest quality

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain a U.S. governmentPublic Trust Security Clearance
• 6+ years of experience in human centered design, service design, and/or customer experience design
• Current portfolio demonstrating ideology, methods, tools, skills, and craft
• Thorough knowledge and demonstrated experience conducting primary and secondary research including stakeholder and user-interviews, design-thinking and co-creation workshops and applying those insights to personas, journey maps, process maps, ecosystem maps, roadmaps, stakeholder maps, and service blueprints

• Ability to think strategically and holistically and connect dots across multiple workstreams, stakeholder groups, and ecosystems
• Experience working on a scrum team within the Agile delivery framework and experience integrating research and design into technical sprints including writing stories and story pointing
• Proficiency in tools like Adobe Creative Suite, Mural, and Lucidchart
• Desire to keep pace with ever-changing industry tools and best practices with the ability to make recommendations as needed for the best outcome
• Experience collaborating within a multi-disciplinary delivery team including UX/UI designers, technologists, data scientists, engineers, solution architects, and change managers

• A natural curiosity for solving problems coupled with strong analytical skills
• A collaborative nature with excellent written communication and presentation skills
• Experience working in a project-based environment
• Degree or equivalent experience in HCD, and/or service design

Bonus Points

• Previous work experience in or with the federal government
• Previous work experience as a consultant