Service Designers in Manchester

Permanent or 12‑month Fixed Term Contract

£42,000 to £55,000 depending on experience

You must be UK‑based, and may work from the Macclesfield office or from home.

For Nexer, service design is an important part of creating user‑centred digital products and services that help people to live and work better. We’re seeing more demand for our service design capabilities from our clients across multiple sectors, especially in our Government work, and are looking for experienced service designers to jump straight onto project work.

You’ll be working in a multidisciplinary team to understand and map the flow through and between every touchpoint in the services we design. You’ll use your experience to design services that are joined up and effective, from end‑to‑end, and work with real users and business stakeholders to deliver the best results. You’ll use your energy and enthusiasm to take clients on the service design journey, balancing the requirements of all parties with the real‑world needs of those who are using the services.

Your skills:

• You’ll have experience of agile, user‑centred ways of working and be comfortable working to deadlines with a flexible, adaptable mindset.
• You’ll be confident in leading discovery and alpha (or early stage) project activities, as well as design workshops and mapping activities with clients and users.
• You’ll have experience visually mapping and presenting the ‘as is’ and ‘future state’ of services through user journey maps, service blueprints and similar artefacts.
• You’ll have strong collaboration skills, working with other designers to capture and convey service elements through prototypes or proof of concept deliverables.
• You’ll be confident in presenting, testing and gathering feedback on the artefacts you produce, and be able to work with clients to help them adopt and embed a service design mindset.

Experience required:

We are looking for someone with a few years’ experience working in a service design role within an agency environment, or within a UK government/public sector role. This might be in your current role, or a previous one, but this experience is important due to the project work we do. If you’ve not worked in either of these environments but can demonstrate a strong understanding and working experience of service design in a directly related area, we’d like to hear from you too.

Working at Nexer:

Our team tells us that our flexible working is second to none, and we work in a fully hybrid way. Our office in Macclesfield, Cheshire is our central hub, and we have team members across the UK. We encourage regular get‑togethers and support meet‑ups, event attendance and ongoing learning.

Our Benefits Include:

• 35 hour working week
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Additional leave days for life events, length of service and volunteering, plus the option to swap bank holidays to different days
• Enhanced new parent policies for maternity, partner and adoption
• 6% company pension contribution
• Income protection and life assurance
• Two Employee Assistance Programmes

A Little Bit About Nexer:

Nexer is a human‑centred design, development and consulting company. We work closely with real people to design, build and deliver digital products and services that are highly usable, accessible and engaging. We work with companies large and small, in the public, private and not‑for‑profit sectors, and we believe strongly in developing long‑term, mutually beneficial strategic partnerships with our customers. Since 2007, we’ve grown from a team of 4 to a team of 70 people to become one of the most respected user‑centred design and digital agencies in the UK. We’re also known for creating and running the popular Camp Digital conference.

Diversity & Inclusion:

We encourage applications from people who can help enrich the ethnic and cultural diversity of our team, those with access needs, those who need flexible working patterns, and people from all walks of life.