Senior Service Designer

Department: RSD:
Service Design

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: London, UK

We're Transform.

Transform is a fresh alternative to Big Consulting. As an end-to-end transformation partner, we define, design, build and operate systems that solve our clients’ toughest challenges and seize their biggest opportunities. That often means combining strategy, data, AI, technology, and change management. Sometimes we manage and operate the systems we create; other times, we hand it over for the client to run – standing by to make improvements when things change.

It all comes down to making an impact: improving lives, supporting citizens, streamlining workflows, and making the world a better place. We specialise in public sector and public-facing organisations—from government agencies and local authorities to energy, utilities, transportation and healthcare. We also work for some of the world’s most dynamic brands across automotive, retail, financial services, and consumer goods. We work closely (often on site) with our clients;

to deliver impact you are keen to help us build the workforce of the future, we should talk.

We’re all in! That's what gets us out of bed every day. We hope you feel the same.

We believe good design changes lives. We exist to help organisations solve complex problems through empathy, evidence and craft, working with our heads, hearts and hands.

That means immersing ourselves in the worlds of those we're designing for. Our research goes beneath the surface, understanding the contexts, constraints and the systemic forces shaping people’s experiences. We make sense of complex systems, visualise service ecosystems, tell the stories that matter, using data to ground our decisions in reality, not assumption.

We design with those who use, deliver, manage and commission services because we believe that's the best way to create change that lasts. We bring that same spirit to our client relationships – growing design-thinking communities, nurturing capability and leaving things better than we found them.

Our work spans central government, local authorities, justice, health, trade, education and beyond. If that sounds like your kind of place, we'd love to hear from you.

• Understanding the strategic context of clients and reconciling customer needs with strategic priorities
• Leading and/or playing a senior team role in service design projects, in a range of different sectors
• Building client accounts through outstanding and award-winning work
• Running client workshops
• Making complex product, service and operating systems easy to understand for clients and colleagues through simple and accessible visualisation.
• Developing new service propositions for clients
• Developing skills and mentoring colleagues in the service design practice

• At least 5 years’ experience working in service, product and experience design projects, leading multi-discipline teams to deliver projects
• Expertise and deep knowledge of service design tools and methodologies, such as service blueprints, service mapping, systems thinking, journey mapping
• Ability to produce highly visual output for clients, documents, presentations, or workshop materials
• Demonstrable experience in user research techniques and analysis, e.g., interviews, contextual inquiry, customer journey analysis and mapping
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, including data and thematic analysis
• Ability to quickly develop recommendations based on evidence
• Experience of stakeholder engagement and facilitation in complex programmes
• Conceptualisation and proposition development supported…