Service Designer

UNAVAILABLE; McLean (VA); Presencial; USD 90.000 - 130.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

UNAVAILABLE is seeking a Service Designer to guide government clients through our Design Intelligence framework, incorporating human-centered methods to solve organizational and experience challenges. You will lead discovery sessions, act as the voice of the customer, and ensure needs are reflected in proposed solutions.

Responsibilities include conducting workshops, synthesizing data to shape strategies, and creating journey maps, service blueprints, and roadmaps.

Formación

• 4+ years of experience in human-centered design, service design, and/or customer experience design.
• Portfolio demonstrating ideology, methods, tools, skills, and craft.

Responsabilidades

• Guide government clients through our Design Intelligence framework.

Conocimientos

Human-centered design

Service design

Customer experience design

Agile/Scrum

Educación

Degree in HCD or service design

Herramientas

Adobe Creative Suite

Mural

Lucidchart

Descripción del empleo

Overview

As aService 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 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 a U.S. governmentPublic Trust Security Clearance
• 4+ 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

• 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

Preferred:

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