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Lead Service Designer

Faculty London Hybrid senior full-time

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Description

As a Lead Service Designer at Faculty, you will shape the strategic direction of service design across our business, aligning cross-functional teams to deliver innovative, scalable, and impactful solutions.

Acting as a visionary leader, you will pioneer unified service ecosystems, embed systems thinking, and drive ambitious transformation initiatives.

By guiding large-scale user research and crafting long-term strategies, you will empower our clients to conquer complex organisational challenges and build lasting, impactful capabilities.

Responsibilities:

  • Directing large-scale research efforts to uncover strategic insights, while mentoring teams to embed best practices into their dynamic project workflows.
  • Developing comprehensive, service-wide journey maps and evolving personas to address diverse user scenarios and align multiple teams to a unified vision.
  • Driving the creation of high-level service blueprints that shape enterprise transformation initiatives and untangle cross-functional dependencies.
  • Facilitating impactful workshops with senior stakeholders to align on strategic direction, solve complex systemic challenges, and resolve conflicts collaboratively.
  • Overseeing the prototyping of service components, coordinating cross-disciplinary teams to test and validate concepts iteratively against strategic objectives and user feedback.
  • Collaborating proactively with government and public sector clients to transform public service delivery through the power of AI and design.

Requirements:

  • Equipped with comprehensive expertise in advanced user research methodologies, you have a proven track record of managing and mentoring research teams.
  • Masterful at creating detailed, high-level service blueprints and journey maps, you can effortlessly guide strategic organisational direction.
  • An exceptional facilitator, your skills enable you to lead inclusive workshops for senior stakeholders to align visions and resolve complex challenges.
  • Experienced in directing prototyping efforts for complex service components, you ensure robust solutions are validated through continuous iteration.
  • Outstanding in your written and verbal communication, you leverage high-quality design artefacts and strategic narratives to influence key decision-making.
  • Bringing strong collaborative experience working with government entities and public sector organisations, you are ready to deliver highly impactful, scalable public services.

Skills

Required

  • advanced user research methodologies
  • service design
  • systems thinking
  • strategic organisational direction
  • facilitation
  • prototyping
  • collaborative experience

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