Lloyds Banking Group
Lead Service Designer - 12-Month FTC
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Lead Service Designer - 12 Month FTC
Salary
£92,701 - £109,060
Location
London
Hours
Full-time
Working Pattern
Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.
Job Description Summary
We’re looking for someone to lead the way in creating seamless digital experiences for our customers, to build advocacy and advance the practice of Service Design across the Group.
What you’ll be doing
As a Lead Service Designer, you’ll work within our team of designers, researchers and strategists from diverse backgrounds who work across all areas of the organisation.
You’ll be comfortable in all aspects of service design – from needs definition, journey mapping, blueprinting and storytelling to facilitating workshops and being the subject matter expert in design thinking methods, using evidence to influence internal customers.
You’ll love your craft and enjoy developing others across the business. Whether that’s advocating for Service Design with product teams, defining new ways of working together more effectively or helping evolve the craft.
You’ll also be:
- Working effectively and confidently as part of agile teams to help uncover priorities, visualise outcomes, and define scope.
- Facilitating workshops and discussions with internal customers, making sure the business context, needs and risks are properly understood, and that key decisions are well informed.
- Communicating with colleagues and internal customers to manage expectations and incorporate multiple perspectives when defining solutions.
- Researching and documenting current - state services and experiences and communicate future -state services.
- Leading others to make good design decisions, bring the user perspective to the forefront and challenge the validity of constraints.
- Taking ownership for your own and others’ development and help them to succeed through coaching and mentoring.
- Collaborating closely with other designers, product owners, and engineers.
- Being an active member of the design community to share knowledge, create ideas, and embed principles of design across a range of product, service, and customer journeys.
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Why join us?
Join us and, give us your best and we’ll give you ours. Here, you’ll make a difference to customers, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career where you’re free to be yourself. Great colleagues, amazing workspaces, hybrid working and huge career opportunities-you’ll find them all here.
What we’re looking for?
You’ll be a highly - motivated, proactive and driven approach to achieving individual and collective goals couples with the ability to cultivate an environment that encourages innovation and continuous improvement.
You’ll have strong relationship building skills, who can use empathy to find opportunities to bring people together and will be credible when dealing with senior audiences; with the confidence to provide a healthy challenge where appropriate.
Additionally you’ll have a calm and resilient approach when under pressure, and the ability to proactively identify new or potential risks and respond to emerging priorities.
An innovative approach to problem solving, and the skill to bring others on the journey with them and encourage their input.
Exceptional communication skills and prowess in effectively communicating ideas, issues, and implications to senior, technical and non - technical audiences.
Experience in research methods to inform design choices.
Highly experienced in ‘design thinking’ methods and being able to facilitate with confidence
This is a place for you:
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
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We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual performance-related bonus
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready to make an impact? Apply today.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
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