Senior Service Designer

Wunderman Thompson

Department: Experience

Expertise: CX

Location: London, United Kingdom

Who we are:

At Wunderman Thompson we exist to inspire growth for ambitious brands. Part creative agency, part consultancy and part technology company, our experts provide end-to-end capabilities at a global scale to deliver inspiration across the entire brand and customer experience.

We are 20,000 strong in 90 markets around the world; our people bring together creative storytelling, diverse perspectives, inclusive thinking, and highly specialized vertical capabilities to drive growth for our clients. We offer deep expertise across the entire customer journey, including communications, commerce, consultancy, CRM, CX, data, production, and technology.

Our work spans the entire Service Design process from research to delivery. We develop solutions to take advantage of the design, business and innovation opportunities we identify and then work collaboratively across the Wunderman Thompson network to make them a reality. Our team delivers for brands including GE Healthcare, HSBC, Duracell, Mercedes Benz Vans, Microsoft, The Macallan, Pets at Home and Specsavers. 

We have proudly been named as Campaign’s Customer Engagement Agency of the Year for the last three years and have been highlighted as a world leading agency for CX Insight and Strategy by Forrester.   

What we need from you 

  • Able to work with multidisciplinary teams on a range of products, designing experiences people want, need and love. 
  • Passion for people, with an ability to work across medium and large-scale engagements with several project tracks. 
  • Able to juggle multiple projects with a great attitude, prioritising work and resources – even when timelines, budgets and availabilities change. 
  • Make the case for what you believe in, always advocating for the people who use our products in front of internal teams. 
  • Able to guide more junior members of the Service Design team.   
  • Work well under pressure, keeping your cool when the deadlines change, mitigate risks an adjust accordingly. 
  • Act as an ambassador for the experience design team; able to explain the value of user centred experience design  
  • As a Senior Service Designer you will be responsible for the development of junior members of the team. To support this, you will be able to: 
    • Hold regular career-based conversations to help individuals grow and improve their overall skills  
    • Support in the creation of individual’s development plans  
    • Show your coaching style to get the best out team members 
  • Stay stubbornly curious, constructive and open minded. 

You’re likely to have knowledge or expertise in these areas 

  • Service Design Methodology – Familiarity with Service Design processes and techniques, aiming to iterate wherever possible. A thorough understanding of the WT CX Toolbox – assisting to identify gaps within the methodology and create new methods. Demonstrate ability to take ownership of end-to-end Service Design projects 
  • Customer Research – Able to take the lead in conducting and developing tools for primary ethnographic research. An understanding of research process, insight development and concept creation. Able to identify tools required to develop insights through research and work with others to develop these 
  • Storytelling – You have an eye for detail to help identify problems and improvements within a customer experience, regularly offering a fresh perspective to clients. Able to structure group sessions aiming to synthesise insights. You can regularly and effectively present customer challenges in the most appropriate format which motivates clients to act 

Tools you’re likely to be confident in 

  • Design tools such as Adobe CC, Figma, Sketch, InVision etc to help create and present deliverables 

What we can offer you

We don’t settle for people who can just do the job, we look for people that go beyond that and always push our thinking to be better than yesterday. We believe that this is what makes our agency a great place to be – a space where you’re never far away from the best minds to learn from.

We want you to be comfortable and proud every day of the week and have created an open and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. We don’t want you to just fit into our culture, we want your uniqueness and diversity of background to add to it and make this an agency where we all have a real sense of belonging and purpose. We are a community. 

Our focus is on keeping teams connected and engaged whether we're in the office or working from home, putting people’s wellbeing first, ensuring every person has access to our learning and development programme and building an inclusive workplace. We have a weekly ‘Staying Connected Calendar’ which is full to the brim of training you can get involved in, inspiration sessions hosted by external partners to check out and wellbeing classes and tips and tricks to look after your mind, body and soul. From yoga, Pilates, HIIT, hypnotherapy, a Strava cycling group, 1:1 resilience sessions and trained mental health first aiders. To name a few. Within our office we have a dedicated wellness studio and this year we built a brand new learning lab. Here we host weekly lunchtime lessons that supports iLearn, our learning & development portal home to 100s of sessions for you to access. We're also committed to building an inclusive, equitable and diverse workforce driven by our Inclusion Council and Employee Resource Groups; Rise, Unite, Re:think, Noir, Wellbeing and Access all Areas.

At Wunderman Thompson, we are committed to actively building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcomed, valued and heard, and is treated with dignity and respect.  As leaders and creative partners across industries, it is our responsibility to cultivate an environment reflective of our greatest asset; our people. We believe that this commitment inspires growth and delivers equitable outcomes for everyone as well as the clients and communities we serve.

Wunderman Thompson is a WPP agency.  For more informationplease visit our website and follow Wunderman Thompson on our social channels via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.  

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