Hybrid Senior Service Designer

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About the role

  • Senior Service Designer supporting federal clients in modernizing services and improving customer experience. Working across various domains to implement human-centered, measurable service improvements.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with UX/CX researchers to conduct qualitative and quantitative research with federal customers, frontline staff, and program leaders.
  • Analyze policy, operational workflows, and legacy systems to understand the full service ecosystem end-to-end.
  • Develop detailed current-state and future-state service blueprints and journey maps that show how people, processes, data, and technology interact.
  • Identify friction points and root causes across operations, contact centers, digital interfaces, and backend systems.
  • Communicate complex systems through clear, actionable visuals and documentation.
  • Design holistic services that align user needs, agency priorities, compliance requirements, and operational feasibility.
  • Develop future-state concepts, experience principles, operational recommendations, and implementation of roadmaps.
  • Prototype service changes including workflows, scripts, task flows, process updates, and policy concepts.
  • Ensure designs meet federal accessibility (Section 508), equity, privacy, and security standards.
  • Collaborate with researchers to test concepts with users, validate assumptions, and support iterative improvements.
  • Partner with product, engineering, and operational teams to ensure solutions are feasible and scalable within federal constraints.
  • Lead co-creation workshops and working sessions with customers, program offices, IT teams, researchers, operational staff, and policy experts.
  • Build alignment among diverse stakeholders and support decision-making in complex environments.
  • Serve as a bridge between research findings, business needs, and technical delivery.
  • Support rollout planning, sequencing, and change management for large federal programs.
  • Contribute to executive briefings, playbooks, and long-term service improvement strategies.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in service design, human-centered design, UX/CX strategy, or systems design.
  • Bachelor’s degree in design, HCD, service design, UX, behavioral science, anthropology, public policy, psychology, computer science, or related field.
  • US Citizenship is required by the federal government for this position
  • Must be able to obtain Public Trust clearance.
  • Experience working in or with the federal government.
  • Deep expertise in service blueprinting, journey mapping, systems thinking, and cross-functional facilitation.
  • Strong communication and storytelling skills, including experience presenting to senior leaders.
  • Ability to translate complex requirements into clear, actionable service improvements.
  • Knowledge of 508 accessibility, equity frameworks, and federal digital service standards.
  • Experience in consulting or professional services.
  • Familiarity with digital modernization efforts, legacy system transitions, or call center operations.
  • Comfort using tools such as Figma, Miro/Fig Jam, or similar for prototyping and collaboration.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Remote work options
  • Professional development opportunities

Job title

Senior Service Designer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$119,323 - $202,850 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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