Registers of Scotland
Senior Service Designer
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Role: Senior Service Designer
Total Remuneration: £58,281 - £68,621
Pay Supplement: The base salary for this role is £50,243 - £59,156. This job qualifies for Digital, Data and Technology Annual Pay supplement of 16% which is included in the total remuneration above.
Pension: 28.97% (RoS contribution)
Annual Leave: 38 days annual holiday, increasing to 42 days with length of service.
Duration: Permanent
Working Pattern: 35 hours per week. We are a flexible employer and will consider a variety of working patterns on a case-by-case basis. For example, compressed hours, term-time working, or part-time working.
Location: Hybrid working model. Contractual base either at Meadowbank House, Edinburgh (EH8 7AU), or St Vincent Plaza, Glasgow (G2 5LD). You will be expected to attend one of these locations as required by the role.
Grade: Senior Executive Officer
Department: User Centred Design
Directorate: Digital, Data and Technology
Role Reports to: Service Design Lead
Closing date: 13th September 2026 at 11.59pm
About Registers of Scotland (RoS)
Join an award-winning organisation recognised for its technology and innovation. Registers of Scotland is a world-leading pioneer in land and property registration. Our full-stack teams design, architect, and build all our registration products in-house. We work to create digital solutions for the people of Scotland. You will get an opportunity to nurture your creativity and develop with us through access to the latest data, software engineering, and product delivery techniques.
Inclusion
We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects Scotland. We particularly welcome applications from underrepresented groups in technology and design. Your unique perspective and experience will strengthen our team's ability to create services that work for all our communities.
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- Work with purpose: working for the people of Scotland to set the bar for land and property registration worldwide.
- Flexible and hybrid working: depending on the role and team requirements, work when and where it’s best for you and your stakeholders.
- Benefits: enjoy pay progression, pension contributions of up to 28.97%, up to a year’s parental leave, and 38 days annual holiday, increasing to 42 days with length of service.
- Investment in professional development: we invest in all our people so that they have the right skills to be productive and confident in their job.
- Diversity and Inclusion: We are an ‘Investor in People’ and a ‘Disability Confident’ employer. We are inclusive, stronger together, and committed to putting our people first.
- Positive work culture: RoS is an agile, digital organisation using leading-edge technology. Colleagues understand their role in achieving our strategy and have the autonomy to deliver.
The Role
We’re looking for a Senior Service Designer to take an end-to-end view of our service journeys, ensuring they flow seamlessly. This will help us deliver effortless digital experiences, build on customer satisfaction, and advance the practice of Service Design across RoS. In this role, you’ll lead design concepts, take ownership of shaping complex services, embed best practices within multi-disciplinary teams, and make informed decisions grounded in research—while mentoring and influencing others.
This is an opportunity for an experienced service designer to create meaningful impact, drive positive change, and influence how our services are shaped and delivered.
On a typical day you will…
- Provide expert knowledge of service design practices and methodologies at a senior practitioner level and support the delivery of detailed visual customer journey flows across various RoS services
- Visualise end to end services with front and backstage processes in line with user needs and business requirements
- Facilitate workshops to validate and refine the journeys with key customers, colleagues, and stakeholders. This includes an overview of why and how customer journeys are important for the organisation
- Gather quantitative and qualitative data to inform the journey mapping, ensuring we understand the experience and pain points for the customer
- Redesign services and/or embed new services focussing on ‘What matters to the customer’
- Share understanding of approach to service design and maturity and how this supports the Scottish Government approach (Scottish approach to service design and digital service standards)
- Help to embed Service design thinking into the service area and provide the skills to continue them into the wider business
- Engage in any stage of the service lifecycle as required
- Actively contribute to the design community by sharing knowledge, generating ideas, and embedding design principles
- Be confident in engaging stakeholders and working with established governance forums such as the Service Alignment Team (SAT)
- Facilitate co-design with colleagues in the business areas to produce improvements for services
- Implement improvements across small groups to monitor and assess risk and impact before implementing on a larger scale
- Collaborate with other User Centred Design resource, when required, on overlapping deliveries
- Support any secondary activities as requested by the Principal Designer or Service Design Lead
- Simplify complex ideas, visualise solutions, and adapt to uncertainty while working within organisational constraints
- Remain calm and resilient under pressure, proactively spotting risks and responding to changing priorities
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