Senior Service Designer

The Role

We'relooking for a Senior Service Designer to take an end-to-end view of our service journeys, ensuring they flow seamlessly. This will help us deliver effortless digital experiences, build on customer satisfaction, and advance the practice of Service Design acrossRoS. In this role you'lllead design concepts, take ownership of shaping complex services, embed best practices within multi-disciplinary teams, and make informed decisions grounded in research-while mentoring and influencing others.

This is an opportunity for an experienced service designer to create meaningful impact, drive positive change, and influence how our services are shaped anddelivered.

On a typical day you will

• Provide expert knowledge of service design practices and methodologies at a senior practitioner level and support the delivery of detailed visual customer journey flows across variousRoSservices.
• Visualise end to end services with front and backstage processes in line with user needs and business requirements.
• Facilitate workshops tovalidateand refine the journeys with key customers,colleaguesand stakeholders. This includes an overview of why and how customer journeys are important for the organisation.
• Gather quantitative and qualitative data to inform the journey mapping, ensuring we understand the experience and pain points for the customer.
• Redesign services and/or embed new services focussing on 'What matters to the customer.
• Share understanding of approach to service design and maturity and how this supports the Scottish Government approach (Scottish approach to service design and digital service standards).
• Help to embed Service design thinking into the service area and provide the skills to continue them into the wider business.
• Engage in any stage of the service lifecycle asrequired.
• Actively contribute to the design community by sharing knowledge, generating ideas, and embedding design principles.
• Be confident in engaging stakeholders and working with established governance forums such as the Service Alignment Team (SAT).
• Facilitate co-design with colleagues in the business areas to produce improvements for services.
• Implement improvements across small groups tomonitorand assess risk and impact before implementing on a larger scale.
• Collaborate with other UserCentredDesignresource, whenrequired, on overlapping deliveries.
• Support any secondary activities as requested by the Principal Designer or Service Design Lead.
• Simplify complex ideas, visualise solutions, and adapt to uncertainty while working within organisational constraints.
• Remain calm and resilient under pressure, proactively spotting risks and responding to changing priorities.

Key Responsibilities

Essential Criteria - Skills and Attributes for Success

Technical Experience

We will assess you against the following Experienceand Technicalskills during the applicationandassessment process:

• Experience delivering end-to-end service design across digital and offline channels, normallyevidencedby at least two years in a similar role.
• Proventrack recordof influencing teams, mentoring others, and embeddinggood designpractices.
• Experience making informed design decisions based on research, user insights, and organisational goals.

Behaviours

At application stage, you will be scored against the bolded Behavioursat applicationand againstallfor the assessment:

Working Together

• able to listen to the needs of the technical and businessstakeholders, andinterpret between them
• able to manage stakeholder expectations and be flexible
• Capable of proactive and reactive communication
• facilitates difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders
• advise others how toeffectively plan and run design sessions with a team,usersor stakeholders
• adapt a design session to ensure you achieve a useful outcome
• effectively involve the right people throughout the design process
• work across team or profession boundaries, for example with policy teams

Leadership, Communication and Influencing

• works with higher impact or more complex risks
• builds consensus between services or independent stakeholders
• leads others to makegood designdecisions mentoring others, through pairing & role modelling
• shares best practice and can coach others
• devise teams on how to design inclusive,accessibleand environmentally sustainable content or services
• design and deliver ethical content or services that consider the personal and social context of users
• ensure a design meetsappropriate standards, for example accessibility regulation

Seeing the Big Picture

• identifyand understandconstraints across the business orservice andis able tocommunicate these and work within them
• able to challenge the validity of constraints ensuringRoSstandards are being met
• provide direction on which tools and methods to use by using experience to meet the needs of users across a variety of channels
• help a team understand how user-centred design helps it meet its goals
• help teams align their work to the goals and vision of their organisation
• use risks, opportunities and constraints in technology,systemsand policy to shape design