Description

About us

Our mission is to improve and safeguard public services. We apply digital tools and ways of working to ensure our public services are centred around citizens and communities. We partner with central and local government clients to support the successful delivery of digital and technology services, working collaboratively to solve problems and support long term digital transformation.

At Methods we are not afraid of making mistakes; we aim to learn from them. We strive to create a supportive environment for colleagues, and we also aim to have fun.

We have established communities of practice that you will be able to join that create a supportive internal environment alongside your client work.

We are growing our teams across the company and would love to talk to you about becoming a part of Methods.

Requirements

Your role

We are recruiting for a Service Designer on a permanent basis. You will have a passion for designing services that help users to achieve their goal.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Researching and mapping the current service from the perspective of the customer, the product team, and the wider organisation
  • Running workshops to solve problems, explore solutions, and formulate ideas
  • Designing user journeys and artifacts such as service blueprints
  • Building prototypes to test solutions and ideas
  • Understanding, interpreting, and communicating user needs
  • Making sure that user needs are at the core of product development

    • Skills we are looking for

  • Talking about digital products and the GDS in a way that people understand
  • Understanding how policy or technology constraints affect the development of your product, and how digitalisation benefits the user
  • Experience helping the user-centered design team to work effectively together
  • Service design techniques, for example blueprinting, future blueprinting, rapid ideation
  • Presenting and influencing decision makers
  • Planning and running workshops with stakeholders, end users and/or front line service providers
  • Leveraging metrics and user feedback to define and refine services

    • We know not everyone will have all of the skills we are looking for. We are happy to support you to grow your skill set and experience through our training budget, working with our experienced teams and mentoring.

    Additional skills and behaviours

    Skills that would also be useful in this role include:

  • Working in an agile environment
  • Experience advocating for fully accessible and inclusive services
  • Taking a proactive approach to addressing environmental issues, embedding environmental responsibility in practices and standards, and encouraging clients to consider innovative solutions within the scope of work
  • Taking a proactive approach to diversity, equity and inclusion internally and with clients
  • The ability to solve complex problems, for example sketching, wireframing, prototyping and usability testing
  • Distilling and visualising complex information simply
  • Experienced in using Sketch, Figma, Invision or similar design tools

    • Benefits

    Benefits

  • Holiday: 25 days a year, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy 5 extra days each year
  • Pension: 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
  • Discretionary bonus: based on company and individual performance
  • Life assurance: 4 times base salary
  • Private medical insurance: non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
  • Worldwide travel insurance: non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave after 18 months service
  • Wellness: 24/7 confidential employee assistance programme, including counselling
  • Social: Parties and social events, and commitment to charitable causes
  • Professional development: access to LinkedIn Learning, and discretionary training budget
  • Travel: season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme