Lead Service Designer

We're looking for a Lead Service Designer, you will be reporting to the Head of Service and Organisation Design and supporting them in leading a stable and knowledgeable practice.

On client projects, your deep expertise means you'll support teams as a project director and manage or maintain the quality of the design work delivered.

You'll work as part of multidisciplinary teams, including others in DT Design and across TPXimpact as well as associates and client teams. You'll support running the practice effectively as a line manager and mentor.

What you'll be doing

• Lead the service design dimension of client work as a lead practitioner or Project Director
• Support business development activities, including leading work for proposals and sales bids, and contributing to pitches and client presentations.
• You are comfortable having difficult conversations with others about where a project is going, where the risks and challenges are
• You are capable of proactive and reactive communication including facilitating difficult discussions with diverse senior stakeholders
• You co-design and contribute actively to Community of Practice activities – you can lead and inspire in a community environment while coaching/mentoring more junior members of the team
• You line manage others in your practice which includes helping individuals address their goals and objectives, contributing to mid/end of probation reviews, supporting the Head of Practice with performance related processes
• You know how to adapt your approach to different clients depending on their organisation cultures, design maturity and appetite for change
• Foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement on teams and across TPXimpact
• You can confidently communicate the story of our work and the value of user centred design to our clients effectively
• Build trust with teams and clients to create the right conditions for design to be successful in organisations
• You can coach client teams
• Continuously maintain and update skills and knowledge to stay current within your relevant field of expertise

What we're looking for

Essential skills

• Public speaking at local and national events
• Able to visualise and communicate strategic thinking and impact of change through engaging storytelling
• Experienced in project directing and can apply a range of leadership techniques to successfully manage the team's delivery and manage the client relationships
• Able to create and lead initiatives to create and deliver business cases to surface opportunities and next steps towards service transformation and service led organisations
• Experienced in business models, understanding operating models and organisational models
• Experience in public sector and consulting environments
• Leads/mentors other designers
• Knowledge and have a perspective on changing technology landscape and being adaptive and responsive to approaches needed to be taken when understanding systems, data and skills

Technical skills

• Project direction: ability to manage ambiguity, lead strategic approaches to vision setting, problem framing, plan work and deliver outcomes
• You can map complexity within a system and organisation; relationships, influences, dependencies, patterns, dynamics
• You can articulate service propositions and can develop different service models based on user and organisation needs
• You can translate ideas, from sketching through to high-fidelity designs to test assumptions and hypotheses, and bring ideas to life with stakeholders
• You're confident using co-design approaches to bring different people together including users and stakeholders
• You can create visual and engaging artefacts to communicate experiences, problems, opportunities and ideas, including both high level conceptual diagrams and detailed service blueprints
• You actively contribute to service backlogs and keep the user needs at the heart of the project
• You have experience of designing or supporting design of inclusive and accessible products and services
• Experience of working with technology and change specialists in technical and complex programmes of work that includes alpha, beta and live phases

What's on offer

• Salary: £60,000 – £70,000
• 30 days holiday + bank holidays
• 2 volunteer days for causes that you are passionate about
• Maternity/paternity – 6 months Maternity Leave, 3 months Paternity Leave
• Life assurance
• Employer pension contribution of 5%
• Health cash plan
• Personal learning and development budget
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Green incentive programmes including Electric Vehicle Leasing and the Cycle to Work Scheme
• Financial advice
• Health assessments

Equality and diversity

We are committed to having a positive impact on the clients and the communities we serve. We actively encourage applications from all genders, ethnicities, disabled people, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

How to apply

Apply online via the TPXimpact careers site. Don't meet 100% of the criteria? We still want to hear from you. Please let us know if you require any adjustments during the recruitment process.