Design & UX Service Designer (GDS/UCD) Professional Manchester, GB

At IBM CIC, we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.

A career in IBM CIC means you’ll have the opportunity to work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, whom may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We offer:

• Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
• Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
• Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

In this role, you\’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

We are seeking an experienced Service Designer to join our team. This individual will lead the design of end-to-end enterprise experiences, ensuring seamless integration and delivery across user types, technology and channels.

Responsibilities

• Plan and facilitate workshops for clients which create a collective understanding of the end-to-end, front-to-back service experience by mapping the orchestration of events that span technology, people, and platforms.
• Collaborate with user research colleagues to demonstrate and communicate insights from research to stakeholders, helping shape strategic initiatives and the wider roadmap.
• Define key UX and organizational measurements to track and prove the initiative delivers positive outcomes for both users and the business.
• Produce artefacts such as concept journeys, service blueprints, and roadmaps that elevate the total user experience beyond immediate products or services.
• Deconstruct services drawing upon user research and service-journey analysis to identify reasons for service failures seeking out systemic issues
• Ideation
• Run collaborative workshops with service teams and users to ideate from needs as-is journeys and system maps to create service ideas future-state journeys and future systems
• Prototyping – service rehearsals walkthroughs wire-framing – paper & digital
• Output & delivery – blueprints performance frameworks discovery to live org change

Join our dynamic team and take on the challenge of shaping end-to-end enterprise experiences for users, prospects, customers, and employees. As a Service Designer, you\’ll generate insights through research, analyze findings to inform strategic initiatives, define key UX and organizational measurements, and design

Don\’t miss this opportunity to grow and excel in a supportive and inclusive work environment. Apply now and become a driving force behind our organization\’s success!

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor\’s Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 1-2 years proven experience in service design and methodologies.
• Experience of working with/ delivering for external clients.
• Strong research and analysis skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work well in a team and adapt to changing priorities.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 5 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience with user research methods and tools.
• Familiarity with service design frameworks (e.g., Double Diamond, Service Design Network).
• Knowledge of UX design principles and practices.
• Experience with visual design tools (e.g., Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD).
• Passion for service design and continuous improvement.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

Job Title

Service Designer (GDS/UCD)

Job ID

54455

City / Township / Village

Manchester

State / Province

Country

United Kingdom

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Design & UX

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Professional

Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends – based on project requirements)

Company

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?