Mid Weight Service Designer

Macquarie’s Bank is continuing to grow our Service Design capability and we are looking for Midweight Service Designers to join our team.

The roles are a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about engaging with customers, intermediaries and staff to develop insights and opportunities that will drive demonstrable business change.

You will have an excellent understanding of, and be experienced in, using different design methodologies to solve problems using Human Centred Design, whilst balancing this with delivering measurable business value. These roles will require collaborating with other designers, insights managers, business analysts, product owners and SMEs to identify complex problems and iterate solutions.

What you’ll do:

- Working with the other designers, and stakeholders, you will work on the established design approach to deliver value to the business and the team.
- Help to conduct exploratory, generative, and evaluative research activities to identify insights from customers, employees and stakeholders using qualitative and quantitative methods, including unmoderated and moderated techniques, interviews, surveys and assist with research recruitment.
- Visually communicate ‘show, don’t tell’ through service design artifacts including personas, journey maps, service blueprints and life cycles.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Business Analysts, Engineers, Product Managers, Researchers and Designers to solve problems, conduct design activities and research.
- Advocate for the customer through research findings to diverse audiences through written reports and presentations.
- Assist with service design activities, challenge established thinking, and develop new approaches to complex design problems.
- Assist to design and facilitate workshops for ideation and iteration, for small and large groups, remotely and in person.

What we’re looking for:

- A minimum of 3 years' experience in design and recent experience as a Service Designer
- An strong portfolio showcasing knowledge and experience of Service Design across varied users, business problems, and devices.
- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Human Computer-Interaction or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong design research skills, iterative design and prototyping and facilitation of usability testing.
- Ability to produce high quality artefacts such as personas, journey maps, task models, wireframes and interactive prototypes
- Highly skilled in design tools such as Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite and online collaboration tools eg. Mural.
- Comfortable working in an Agile environment and resilience in the face of shifting priorities.
- Boundless curiosity about how people use technology and how to create great experiences
- Excellent communication and presentation skills; both written and verbal.
- Ability to play nicely as part of a multi-disciplinary team, inspired by group critique.

Desired skills & experience:

- Knowledge and experience working with brand and design systems.
- Involvement in delivering a service model transformation in a large-scale enteprise.
- Experience interviewing and dealing with B2B clients.
- Familiarity with or willingness to learn Business Model Canvas, Value Proposition Canvas, Jobs to be done methodologies.
- Experience working within financial services.

If this sounds like you, please send a CV and portfolio. We’d like you to be able to show your abilities to us in an interview, through your portfolio showcasing experience where you have previously shipped service design for digital products.

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