Service Designer

Introduction
In this role you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers) where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world.​ Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM CIC is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm investigate ideas outside of your role and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Service designers work to create end-to-end and front-to-back enterprise experiences for prospects customers business partners and employees that span face-to-face and digital interactions. They use human-centered approaches to shape and define the value exchange between a service provider and the user across touch points time and channels.

Your Role and Responsibilities

We are looking for a Service Designer to join an agile team. The role will involve:

• Designing concept journeys blueprints and roadmaps that communicate how the total user experience can be elevated beyond the immediate product or service;
• Facilitating the collective understanding of the end-to-end front-to-back experience by mapping the orchestration of events at the intersection of technology business and design;
• Shaping how behind-the-scenes processes and support functions interact with each other and how these impact the design process;
• Embedding design practices within organizations to create a sustainable approach to service the needs of the user.
• Working with User Researchers to generate insights through research with users staff and stakeholders to shape a holistic view of the total user experience;
• Analysing consolidating and communicating research findings to stakeholders in order to strategically frame validate and quantify the problem being solved and help inform the wider strategic roadmap of initiatives.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience of planning scoping conducting analysis and communicating Service Design throughout the Agile product development lifecycle.
• Experience of planning and facilitating workshops to reach a specific outcome
• Experience of working within an Agile scrum team (working across Designers Product Owners Developers Business Analysts and other Researchers)
• Ability to convert a single or a group of research findings into specific prioritised recommendations.
• Ability to use tooling that supports the creation of service design artefacts

As an equal opportunities’ employer we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However for you to be eligible for this role you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
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