Service Designer

Steampunk; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Steampunk seeks a Service Designer to guide government clients through our Design Intelligence™ framework, leading discovery sessions to uncover pain points and identify enterprise opportunities. You’ll be the voice of the customer, ensuring needs are addressed in proposed solutions.

As an agent of change, you’ll work on mission-driven projects, creating journey maps, service blueprints, and roadmaps while collaborating with agile teams to deliver high-quality outcomes.

Qualifications

• U.S. government security clearance eligibility.
• Bachelor's degree plus 10+ years total experience.
• 4+ years in human-centered design or service design.
• Portfolio demonstrating ideology, methods, tools, and craft.
• Experience with primary and secondary research including stakeholder and user interviews.
• Experience with Scrum/Agile and writing user stories.
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, Mural, Lucidchart.
• Excellent written communication and presentation skills.
• Experience collaborating in multi-disciplinary delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Participate in discovery to understand client mission, goals, stakeholders, users, and journeys.
• Conduct workshops and interviews to frame pain points and opportunities; define problems.
• Synthesize research to communicate insights shaping strategy and future experience vision.
• Create journey maps, service blueprints, personas, ecosystem maps and roadmaps.
• Collaborate on a cross-functional team within an agile environment.
• Understand tech constraints and integrate research into technical considerations.
• Ensure all deliverables are of the highest quality.

Skills

Human centered design

Service design

Customer experience

Agile Scrum

Stakeholder interviews

Facilitation

Research methods

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

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.

Be an agent of change on a team committed to achieving client-focused, mission-driven excellence. Steampunk is the explosive collision of human-centered design and traditional government contracting.We're passionate about creating solutions that are impactful, practical, and scalable while meeting our clients’ ever-changing needs. We believe in empowering our people to find creative solutions to intractable problems. We believe the best environment in which to grow and thrive is outside our comfort zone. We believe that while good design makes for a good product, human-centered design makes for an excellent one.

Contributions

• 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 environment and understand how research should be integrated into technological considerations
• Ensure all deliverables across a variety of projects are produced at the highest quality

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance
• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of total experience
• 4+ years of experience in human centered design, service design, and/or customer experience design
• Current portfoliodemonstrating ideology, methods, tools, skills, and craft
• Thorough knowledge anddemonstrated 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
• 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 bestoutcome
• Experience collaborating within a multi-disciplinary delivery team including UX/UI designers, technologists, data scientists, engineers, solution architects, and changemanagers
• A natural curiosity for solving problems coupled with strong analyticalskills
• A collaborative nature with excellent written communication and presentation skills
• Experience working in a project-basedenvironment

Bonus Points

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

About steampunk

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 $85,000 to $150,000. 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.