Service Designer

Since June 2021, frog is part of Capgemini Invent. frog partners with customer-centric enterprises to drive sustainable growth, by building and orchestrating experiences at scale, while harnessing the power of data and technology. We’re inventing the future of customer experiences by delivering market-defining business models, products, services, brand engagements and communications. Joining frog means you’ll be joining the “pond,” a global network of studios, each with a thriving in-person and vibrant virtual culture. frogs are curious, collaborative, and courageous, united by our passion for improving the human experience across our areas of expertise, while each bringing our unique and diverse skills and experiences to the table. We draw on our global reach and local knowledge to solve complex problems and create innovative, sustainable solutions that touch hearts and move markets. frogs prize humour, positivity, and community just as highly as performance and outcomes. Our culture is open, flexible, inclusive, and engaging. Working at frog means being empowered to meet the moment, and Make Your Mark on every project, in your studio, your community—and the world at large. What You'll Be Doing: The Service Designer will be part of a skilled multidisciplinary team leading on the strategic design, prototyping and build of excellent public services. You’ll collaboratively build cross-government services that are user-centred, equitable, sustainable and accessible, helping to identify and solve population scale problems, focussing on the design of services at scale. In frog we’re building a new capability to work at the cutting edge of policy design. We need strategic service designers that understand the policy lifecycle and how to: test iterate and improve policy in the same way you would a digital service. If you’re not entirely sure how this works, talk to us! It’s the vanguard of design in government and we want you to be in it. You won’t be afraid to convince and show policy people a new way of working. You’re able to evangelise public policy design at all levels of government. An Overview Of The Role: As a service designer, you’ll be an expert in:  Zooming out on the wider context, focus on policy outcomes and zoom in on what people need Designing in a user-centred way, understanding user needs and advocating for people in the design process Agile ways of working, working in multidisciplinary teams and being able to work to GDS standards are a hygiene factor Working towards justice, equity and inclusion in the teams you work with and the services you help deliver Working towards environmental sustainability of government and its services Leading the design of services and supporting the wider organisational objectives and strategic priorities Working with other specialists to design and create organisational, policy and financial structures that support service delivery of good services Using reflective and critical thinking; challenging assumptions and asking questions; to support government to do better and deliver better services Using evidence from research and data to inform design and management decisions, and use evidence to engage with senior stakeholders Analysing failure within services and identify root causes for that failure; find opportunities for reducing complexity and reducing cost Designing collaboratively and in the open, engaging stakeholders in the design process in a variety of ways, including workshops, design sprints and other co-design methods Visualising and mapping services, sketch and prototype ideas Guiding, supporting and mentoring other designers and colleagues Educating colleagues in user-centred design and service design when necessary Contributing to, and helping maintain and grow the design community, sharing patterns and approaches with others What We Look For: A good fit for this role will bring many of the skills, experience, and attributes below: Previous experience working with Public Sector and proven experience with GDS Comfort leading sessions with senior clients Comfort reflecting on your individual performance and behaviours and, together with feedback from others, you will actively seek to continuously improve Passion about helping to create an environment where people can do great work To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance Security Check Clearance To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements. Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility Application Instructions: Please ensure a link to your portfolio of work is included on your CV and any passwords required are included. Your portfolio should highlight your abilities and experience relevant to the role, with specific examples of how you work, think, collaborate, and contribute to great design outcomes. Please note that we are unable to accept any applications without a portfolio. Need To Know: We don’t just believe in inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Inclusive Futures for All 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. We 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 CSR: We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing. Whilst you will have London as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice. We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance. About Capgemini Invent: Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.