Arup
Senior Digital Service Designer

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Joining Arup
Arup’s purpose, shared values and collaborative approach has set us apart for over 80 years, guiding how we shape a better world.
The Opportunity
We are seeking a Senior Service Designer to play a leading role in shaping and delivering high-quality, user-centred transformational digital services for our diverse public and private sector clients. You will work across the full digital delivery lifecycle, from understanding complex systems and uncovering user needs through to designing, testing and delivering services that create meaningful outcomes.
Working as part of multidisciplinary teams, you will collaborate closely with user researchers, UX/UI designers, business analysts, software developers, data and AI specialists, and technical experts from across Arup. This is a client-facing role requiring confidence leading design activities, working with senior stakeholders, and contributing to bids and proposals.
In this role you will:
- Lead and deliver service design activities across discovery, alpha and beta phases of digital delivery.
- Define the structure and approach for the service-design components, including plan and facilitate design sprints, user research, co-design sessions and stakeholder engagement.
- Develop high-quality service design artefacts including, service blueprints, user journeys, personas and to-be designs.
- Translate user and business needs, and organisational or policy objectives into clear service concepts and delivery backlogs.
- Advocate human-centred, evidence-informed and systems-thinking approaches to service design and decision-making across client and project teams.
- Contribute to business development by helping shape compelling proposals, defining innovative service design approaches, and identifying opportunities to create positive value for clients.
- Mentor and support junior designers and researchers in their professional development.
At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas.
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Is this role right for you?
We’d like to hear from you if:
- You have significant experience delivering human-centred design for digital services within complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
- You can lead service design activities across discovery, alpha and beta phases, including design sprints, user research, co-design sessions and stakeholder engagement.
- You are confident creating service design artefacts such as service blueprints, user journeys, personas, ecosystem maps and future-state designs.
- You are a strategic systems thinker who can translate user needs, organisational objectives and strategic goals into clear service concepts and delivery backlogs.
Please submit a portfolio with your application.
Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application and for the duration of employment. Any offer made will be subject to satisfactory proof of immigration status.
What we offer you
At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together.
Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive – through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.
We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.


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We also provide Private medical insurance, Life assurance, Accident insurance and Income protection cover. In addition, you’ll have access to flexible benefits to help you look after all aspects of your wellbeing and give you the freedom and flexibility to find the best solutions for you, your family, and your individual needs.
Different People, Shared Values
Arup is an equal opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of age (within legal limits), gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, neurotype or mental health, race or ethnicity, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. We are an open environment that embraces diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas – this drives our excellence.
Guided by our values and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we create and contribute to equitable spaces and systems, while cultivating a sense of belonging for all. Our internal employee networks support our inclusive culture: from race, ethnicity and cross-cultural working to gender equity and LGBTQ+ and disability inclusion – we aim to create a space for you to express yourself and make a positive difference.
Discover more about life at Arup at www.arup.com/careers/your-life-at-arup.
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