Senior Service Designer

A figure capable of defining and designing experiences with products and services (both physical and digital). We are looking for a person with cross-functional skills who is able to conduct qualitative and quantitative research, facilitate workshops, define service models, requirements and design strategies, to design the detailed experience of a product or service. We are looking for a person willing to face new design challenges in very different industries and who is collaborative and open to work with other skills.

The role includes operational responsibilities as well as the ability to autonomously manage one’s tasks within a team with different levels of experience. A strong aptitude towards teamwork, constant dialogue with other senior figures and the predisposition to lead junior figures are strongly necessary.

This job is for you if you are willing to put all your knowledge in play, challenge and improve yourself as a designer, while always aiming for the highest quality and working in synergy within multi-disciplinary teams.

You will be involved in projects that will vary from the definition of new experiences, to the envisioning of new companies and the evolution of products and services, working with different customers and industries that will require your vertical experience in unexpected and stimulating contexts, often outside your comfort zone.

You will apply your service design skills to every stage of the project, from research to delivery. You will have the opportunity to use and cultivate your T-shape profile - vertical on service design skills and transversal with respect to design skills in a broad sense - to bring widespread value within the projects in which you will be involved.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team founded on lean and agile practices. Each team is led by a reference Design Director and is dedicated to specific projects. As part of a design team, you will be autonomous in making operational decisions together with your teammates and you will be responsible for the work you will deliver as a team.

Some weekly and daily practices will give rhythm to your work and you will have ample autonomy to improve and develop them together with your teammates.

You will be able to make some decisions by discussing with your teammates, with your managers and with the entire organization in dedicated moments. You will be able to openly bring your feedback within the project and the team.

1. Planning and conducting research activities in collaboration with the team (e.g. user research, benchmark, ethnographic research, etc.)
2. Analyzing research data and generating useful insights to structure the design vision
3. Planning, designing the tools for and facilitating workshops and collaborative activities with different types and categories of stakeholders
4. Selecting and using the best design tools for the specific purposes of the project (e.g. system map, stakeholder map, customer journey, service blueprint, scenarios, storyboard)
5. Planning and conducting user testing activities for products and services
6. Creating presentations and design strategy documents to illustrate design choices
7. Knowing how to expose rationales and design choices to the client directly and through dedicated documents (presentations, journeys, etc.)
8. Clearly identifying and pursuing the team and project goals
9. Managing specific tasks independently and ensuring the quality of the work
10. Collaborating with other multidisciplinary figures to achieve the project objectives
11. Supporting any Junior figures
12. Collaborating and interacting with the various project stakeholders
13. Being proactive in improving yourself and striving for personal and group excellence

• 5+ years of experience in service design
• Proven experience of executing projects in multidisciplinary teams
• Ability to develop service solutions, ecosystems of touchpoints, concepts and envisioning scenarios
• Experience in designing services for complex and cross-touchpoint projects
• Consolidated experience in softwares such as Keynote, Microsoft suite, Adobe suite, Sketch / Figma or similar
• Consolidated experience in the creation and analysis of questionnaires with tools such as Survey Monkey or similar
• Strong experience in research activities (qualitative interviews, field research, surveys, co-design workshops, etc.)
• Ability to create research deliverables (Personas, Customer Journeys, Storyboards, User Scenarios, etc.), to identify research insights, to carry out benchmarks and / or trend analysis activities
• Ability to map experiences related to existing products or services, or to be designed from scratch (Experience Maps, Customer Journeys, etc.)
• Experience in accompanying the client in understanding insights through context analysis (qualitative and quantitative, benchmarking, etc.) aimed at improving the Customer Experience
• Collection of user and business requirements and their formalization in dedicated documents
• Experience in facilitating and conducting workshops with customers and stakeholders
• Experience in validation and testing activities for the definition and evolution of design solutions
• Ability to understand the impacts of technology on design results, curiosity for new technologies and digital transformation
• Good communication skills, both written and spoken, with a natural ability to build and maintain reliable relationships with clients, internal departments and all parties interested and involved in the projects
• Consolidated experience in the practice of the design thinking methodology
• Fluency in Italian (oral and written understanding and expression)
• Ability to work on projects where English is required

• Ability to develop personal projects and strong curiosity for the design/tech world
• Interaction and/or visual design skills for the design of digital products
• Strong inclination to seek new and significant solutions
• Excellent communication skills of your ideas and solutions
• Strong aptitude towards active collaboration in a group
• Leadership skills accompanied by analytical and listening skills, dynamism and flexibility
• Ability to interact in complex and technologically active dynamics and contexts
• Knowledge of Agile principles, values and methodologies
• Knowledge of other languages besides Italian and English

At Sketchin, we help companies face the future by launching new businesses, evolving organizations, enhancing the human experience and defining business transformations that create sustainable value over time.