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Senior Service Desginer

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◆Salary X-Ray?Indicative range based on survey data, not a guarantee for this role.£60kExpand ▾
From the 2026 Salary(+) Report
£60k
median base salary
£50k£69k
LowHigh
Based on 148 respondents
senior roles in United Kingdom (UK)
About the job
As a Senior Service Designer, your main responsibilities would be:
- Work across multiple services and provide strategic direction on service design
- Work with the team and stakeholders to document, map and visualise current and new services to help us understand the landscape
- Create visions, strategies and roadmaps to help guide teams and stakeholders
- Document holistic user journeys to communicate and help make and understand decisions
- Analyse existing services to understand pain and failure points to help improvements
- Actively promote good design rationale with the team and stakeholders to ensure quality outcomes
- Understand the needs of both users and stakeholders and communicate them in an engaging way
- Create prototypes to test an idea and inspire the team and stakeholders
- Create design patterns that can be used across our services to ensure consistency and scalability
- Become a service design standards bearer and promote service design activity across the department
You’ll have relevant experience in:
- Interpreting technical and stakeholder needs and communicating them visually and compellingly to both the team and stakeholders
- Working collaboratively in agile multidisciplinary teams and contributing to successful use of design
- Creating meaningful metrics and translating data into insights to inform decisions
- Designing systems across multiple services and touch points whilst delivering the simplest of outcomes based on evidence
- Bringing both the team and stakeholders along the journey with you to ensure feedback is taken on board and decisions make sense
You will also have these Qualifications/Skills:
- Have knowledge of the GDS Service Standards
- Have knowledge experience of Service Design in Local or Central Government
- Understand data systems and models
- Ability to work with minimal support and influence and mentor others.
- Ability to help set direction and embed good practice within teams.