Senior Service Designer

Senior Service Designers at Made Tech are expert practitioners who specialise in understanding, designing, and improving end-to-end public services. We are looking for an expert who can operate strategically and tactically across the full-service lifecycle, from initial policy intent to digital delivery and organisational change. Success in this role means using a systemic, Service Design approach to deliver positive, measurable outcomes for citizens and the public sector.

Made Tech wants to positively impact the country’s future by using technology to improve society. We believe a Service Design-led approach is crucial for creating positive outcomes in the public sector, ensuring critical service‑enabled by technology are cohesive, accessible, and efficient across all channels. You will be instrumental in maturing our community of designers and researchers to meet the growing demand for systemic, service‑led delivery.

• Senior Service Designers are expert Service Practitioners able to develop new and novel, service‑centred approaches to highly complex challenges, based on fundamental design and public service principles.
• We expect the role holder to be a strategic thinker able to facilitate conversations with senior stakeholders to build understanding and alignment and help deliver intended outcomes and impact.
• Take the initiative and be fully responsible for defining the Service Design approach from first principles, proposing alternative ways to deliver complex service improvements.
• Define what ‘good’ end‑to‑end service design looks like on an engagement, enabling and holding cross‑functional teams to account for producing high‑quality service maps, blueprints, and deliverables, measuring the impact of your designs.
• Comfortable with owning a problem and committed to seeing the service improvement through to resolution. Actively look to deliver a positive service outcome, using data and research insights to influence wider organisational or policy change.

• Candid‑but kind Communicators:
  Give and receive feedback often, comfortable having difficult conversations about policy, organisational constraints, or service blockers to drive service improvements.
• Growth Mindset:
  Always willing to learn and develop, bringing new approaches and thinking into our Service Design community.

Scope

• Assure the successful design and delivery of public services by applying a holistic Service Design lens across technology, policy, process, and organisation.
• Build service design maturity, facilitating the design process, communicating complex service decisions to teams, and setting strategic expectations with senior stakeholders.
• Design, prototype and test seamless (online and offline) services, ensuring all organisational, service, and user outcomes are aligned.
• Championing the practice across Made Tech through CoP participation, development and delivery of training/briefings, providing coaching and mentoring support, etc.
• Build trust with clients by demonstrating the value of a Service Design approach and understanding their strategic needs for service improvement.
• Support the commercial team to win new work by contributing strategic Service Design thinking and reviewing bids related to service transformation and user‑centred design (UCD).
• Represent and advocate for user‑centred Service Design publicly and internally through talks, blogs, and case studies, contributing to the definition of Made Tech's Service Design principles.
• Take an active role in the Service Design community, leading on developing and sharing good practice, and actively supporting the hiring and retention of expert Service Designers.

Service Design

• An expert in using core Service Design tools, including but not limited to Service Blueprints, Ecosystem Maps, and Stakeholder Maps, as well as prototyping tools like Figma and the  prototyping kit.
• Experience of championing the value and practice of Service Design internally and externally, influencing clients, partners, and peers on its contribution.
• Able to coach and mentor other designers, defining and setting the…