What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Service Designer Researcher position at Indotronix International Corporation?
Job Description
Prescreening questions and responses should be added to the header of the resume along with portfolio link.
Answer each of the questions below using 200 words or less. (You can use up to 200 words for each question)
In what ways can service design help an electric or gas utility company?
Discuss your experience with service blueprints.
What types of research are necessary to create service blueprints?
How do you navigate relationships with UX product designers who use the future-state blueprints you've created?
The ideal candidate will be located in the Greater Boston or Providence area. Candidates within a 1-2 hour commute of Providence will be accepted. Manager will also review resumes of candidates in the Allentown / Philadelphia area if candidates in the Boston / Providence area are not submitted. The role should be expected at about 85 - 90% remote with possible travel requirements only as necessary to meet with users or relevant stakeholders and possible occasional on sites to meet with team members.
Job Summary
The service design team at Client is seeking a senior or lead level service designer / service design researcher to work closely with the service design, product and business teams to unite our employee-facing and customer-facing products and services into continuous, thoughtful, and focused customer journeys. This person is a strategic partner to the Service Design Manager and will work collaboratively to research and build service blueprints and other service design artifacts in support of a large electric utility.
About You
You able to make sense of ambiguity and to research and communicate solutions to complex problems.
You are a seasoned user experience designer, user experience researcher or service designer who excels at the process, strategy, user-flow, and blueprint side of experience and service design.
You are inquisitive to the core and strive to unpack a problem from all sides before, during and sometimes after solutioning. You are comfortable pushing past initial work requests to dig deeper and learn more to maximize design efforts.
You have experience designing for both front stage and backstage experiences and understand how these worlds meet in the middle to deliver unified, delightful end-user experiences.
You can articulate your design choices with creativity and clarity and welcome constructive feedback, and you are comfortable if not everyone agrees with your design decisions and are excited to work together to align on optimal solutions.
You value and appreciate diversity and inclusion and look for ways to incorporate these values in our work, processes, and interactions.
Your early iterations are rough and rapid, but you can also refine and deliver polished artifacts once all corners of a problem are understood.
You thrive in a creative and collaborative environment and bring a yes, and... attitude to workshops, brainstorming sessions and group design activities
Job Responsibilities
Conduct qualitative research with customers, employees, stakeholders, subject matter experts and other end users to understand how services work today and identify opportunities for future service experiences.
Understand problem spaces and the service opportunities within them and develop strategies to own the work of the service design team and drive innovation with thought and purpose.
Initiate, design and iterate on service design artifacts and related deliverables including service blueprints, user journey maps and user interaction flows.
Support the research team in their development of research plans to uncover new opportunities to continually enhance and optimize concepts and services.
Seek out opportunities to continually satisfy and delight the people who depend on our customer and employee-focused tools.
Work with the service design team to be the glue connecting the front stage and backstage of our employee and customer services.
Help to inspire, motivate, and guide the members of the design and product organizations.
Mentor emerging design talent in understanding the right balance between business, design and end-user needs.
Care deeply about fostering an environment where people of all backgrounds and experiences can flourish.
Basic Qualifications
Degree in HCI, Human Factors, Design, Design Management or related field and 3-5 years of direct work experience in a relevant role.
Experience creating user journey maps, service blueprints, user flows and other various tools to communicate service design decisions.
Able to clearly articulate abstract and / or complex ideas and concepts.
Comfortable working in new and unknown problem spaces and pushing past initial ideas to discover new areas of interest.
Experience with project and stakeholder management.
Ability to set realistic benchmarks and goals and manage the work it takes to achieve them.
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