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Service Design Lead
Job Posted: 37 minutes ago
Salary: £ 700 - 800 / Day
Job Type: Contract
Location: SW1, Latchmere, Greater London
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Contract Service Design Lead
DV Cleared Preferred
Ncounter are supporting a large-scale Defence and Public Safety programme seeking a Service Design Lead with a strong background in user research, creative problem solving and end to end service design. You will guide multidisciplinary teams to create services that are evidence driven, inclusive, and built around real user needs. This role blends hands on research leadership with strategic service design, ensuring clarity from discovery through to delivery.
You will shape propositions, map complex journeys, and drive insight led decision making across multiple workstreams. You will support and coach researchers and designers, raise capability standards, and ensure outputs meet recognised user centred design expectations across government.
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead user research planning, method selection, fieldwork and synthesis across services
• Create and iterate service maps, user journeys, prototypes and testing plans
• Translate research into actionable service improvements grounded in measurable value
• Apply design thinking and creative exploration to solve complex policy and operational challenges
• Coordinate design and research activity across a wider programme ensuring consistency and clear delivery pathways
• Coach senior researchers and designers, manage performance and support career development
• Run workshops that drive alignment, validate ideas and unlock insight across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Present design rationale and research findings to senior leadership and influence programme direction
• Maintain strong commercial awareness and shape service strategies that are viable and achievable
Desirable capability includes thought leadership in service design, experience working in full service digital agencies, and a confident understanding of Agile delivery.
If you are a User Research and Service Design Lead who can bring structure, creativity and clarity to high profile government services, Ncounter would like to hear from you. Please share your CV for a confidential discussionBefore You Apply
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