Service Designer (6 Month FTC/Secondment)
Posted 4 days ago by Lloyds Banking Group
£80,780 Per year
Undetermined
Hybrid
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Service Designer role is a 6-month fixed-term contract focused on shaping end-to-end services in a dynamic innovation environment. The position involves leading discovery processes, designing service architectures, and facilitating co-creation among various stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years of experience in service design and a strong outcome-focused attitude. This role is part of the Group Innovation team, which aims to transform bold ideas into scalable outcomes for a large customer base.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead discovery and synthesize insights across customer, market, and data signals.
- Design service blueprints and map dependencies across journeys, operations, platforms, and teams.
- Apply hypothesis-led thinking and lightweight experimentation to guide product and service direction.
- Design within platform, API, and legacy constraints while using AI/LLM tools responsibly.
- Facilitate co-creation among business, engineering, and customer perspectives.
Key Skills:
- Minimum 5 years experience in Service Design.
- Value proposition and business model design experience.
- Operating model and service scaling experience.
- Experience with speculative/future-back design approaches.
- Coaching and craft leadership within innovation teams.
- Outcome-focused attitude using metrics and analytics.
Salary (Rate): £80,780 yearly
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
JOB TITLE: Service Designer - 6 Month FTC
SALARY: £72,702 - £80,780
LOCATION(S): London
HOURS: Full Time
WORKING PATTERN : Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.
What you'll be doing
The Service Designer shapes end-to-end services across people, process, technology, and data within a fast-moving innovation environment. Working from early discovery through MVP and scale, they help teams frame problems, design comprehensive service experiences, and make evidence-led decisions in ambiguous spaces.
It'll be your role to:
- Design-Led Discovery & Insight Sensemaking - Leads discovery, synthesises insights across customer, market, and data signals, and frames opportunities in low-information environments.
- End-to-End Service Architecture & Systems Thinking - Designs service blueprints and maps dependencies across journeys, operations, platforms, and teams.
- Decision Leadership & Experimentation - Applies hypothesis-led thinking, JTBD, and lightweight experimentation to guide product and service direction.
- Technical & Operational Awareness - Designs within platform, API, and legacy constraints while using AI/LLM tools responsibly to accelerate service design workflows.
- Co-Creation & Customer Facilitation - Brings together business, engineering, and customer perspectives to align desirability, feasibility, and viability.
About the team
The Group Innovation team sits within the GCOO organisation and focuses on turning bold ideas into real, scalable outcomes. Working in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, the team rapidly explores and validates new opportunities by testing customer desirability, business viability, and technical feasibility. Through experimentation, design, and cross-functional collaboration, Group Innovation helps shape future propositions, unlock new growth areas, and bring modern concepts from idea to delivery.
Why join us?
We're transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We're growing, and we'd love you to be part of the journey.
What we're looking for?
A minimum 5 years experience within Service Design
Value proposition and business model design experience
Operating model and service scaling experience
Speculative / future-back design approaches
Coaching and craft leadership within innovation teams
Outcome-focused attitude using metrics and analytics
We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.
This is a place for you
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual performance-related bonus
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready to make an impact? Apply today.