Service Designer (SC Cleared) - Management Consultant - Digital Factory

As a Service Designer, you will be joining the growing and exciting Digital Factory community who are continually sharing knowledge and expertise. We are all passionate about user-centred design, critical thinking, problem solving and designing and building digital services and products. 

Working at Capgemini Invent would give you opportunities to develop and grow, working with major clients in both public and private sector. Our offices are in a variety of locations including London, Manchester and Glasgow. We offer hybrid working, however depending on your project you may have to travel to client locations.   

What you'll do

• Maximise the value we deliver for our clients right from the inception to real life application of Service Design. 
• Support our clients through the end-to-end service design process to design and develop innovative products and services. This process will be all the way from ideation and inception through to solution build and testing. 
• Champion user-centricity – with a set of tools and methods you can draw upon to embed design thinking / user-centricity  
• Work on new ideas and work alongside solution team to design and develop innovative products and services  
• Use current and emerging trends to identify and lead improvements to existing services as well as introduce innovative and industry first service experiences influencing service managers, user researchers, UI/UX designers and programme directors to understand the value as a result of user focused transformation

We'd love to meet someone with

• Proven experience working across a service design process, autonomously with minimal support
• Ability to create service design artefacts and outputs, such as current and future-state user journeys, personas, service concepts, service blueprints and other artefacts 
• Client readiness’, with experience facilitating workshops, design sprints, ideation sessions or similar 
• Ability to visualise complex services in an easy-to-understand format for varying audiences 
• Ability to adopt a curious and inquisitive mindset – with a passion for asking ‘why’ 
• Ability to critically break down complex problems in a fast-paced environment, with a knack for storytelling 
• Strong understanding and experience of working in an agile (scrum) environment in a cross-functional team including but not limited to user researchers, UX/UI designers, business analysts, product owners, delivery managers and developers 
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a tight timeframe with a proactive mindset  
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to balance competing views as part of the design process 
• Aptitude for being an advocate for user-centricity, with the ability to develop and translate user stories and propose design approaches or services to meet these needs and engage in meaningful interactions and relationships with users  
• SC (Security Check) Clearance - active clearance or eligibility for such level of clearance. You would need to be resident in UK for at least 5 years, without leaving the country for more than 28 consecutive days during that time.

It would be great if you also have:

• Experience working in sectors that operate in complex regulatory environments (e.g. healthcare or public sector) or performing a consulting function to private sector clients 
• Experience working with Government Digital Service (GDS) service standards, applying GDS design principles 
• Certification and/or qualifications in Service Design or Design Thinking  
• Experience in running training around Service Design or Design Thinking   
• Experience working with various tools such as Miro, Mural, Teams, PowerPoint  

Why Capgemini is unique

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion Campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work.

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. Through our New Normal campaign, we are looking to embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

Capgemini Invent UK is a winner at the Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards for the 4th year running, placing in the top 50 employers in its list of the Best Places to Work in 2024.