Summary
Serco Middle East is inviting candidates to join its talent pool for a Service Designer role with ExperienceLab, its people-centered design and innovation agency. The role involves customer research, service design activities, insight reports and presentations, and support for customer experience business development across the UAE and KSA. Candidates should have an undergraduate or master’s degree and relevant experience in service design, user experience design, design research or customer research. The role can be based at Serco’s corporate office in Dubai.
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Service Designer - Join Our Talent Pool
Impact A Better Future
At Serco, we bring together the right people, technology, and partners to deliver innovative solutions that impact a better future.
We have been operating in the Middle East since 1947 and have a profound understanding of the region.
With over 4,500 colleagues here, we support governments across defence, space, transport, emergency services, justice and migration, and other vital public services. Our core capabilities span service design and advisory, customer experience, complex programme management, systems integration, and asset and facilities management, alongside environmental and case management services.
Guided by our unique service model, we work together with clients and partners to achieve long-term visions and tackle some of the world’s most complex challenges.
Your Opportunity
At Serco, our purpose is to be a trusted partner of governments, delivering superb public services that transform outcomes and make a positive difference for our fellow citizens.
ExperienceLab is Serco’s people-centered design and innovation agency – a global brand across 4 locations. ExperienceLab’s vision is a world better designed for everyone. We’re creating it by bringing human insight to life.
The purpose of this role is to deliver actionable insights to current and future clients, in addition to supporting business development efforts in customer experience across the UAE and KSA. An ideal candidate should have strong communication skills both verbal and written and have the ability to work collaboratively and communicate with clients about design methodologies and artefacts.
This role can be based in our corporate office in Dubai.
Key Accountabilities
- Planning, coordinating and conducting customer research to uncover customer needs and pain points (customer interviews, focus groups facilitation, journey mapping, persona creation, prototyping, workshop planning and facilitation, usability testing, analysing qualitative data and extracting insights, delivering high quality reports and presentation to communicate findings).
- Have strong communication skills and be confident presenting your research proposals and service design deliverables.
- Using design thinking to create or contribute to design concepts and recommendations and, sometimes, prototyping.
- Support new business development efforts by providing expert information in proposals, pitch efforts and client meetings.
- Ability to deliver small and medium sized projects with minimal oversight from account managers, or work as part of a team on bigger projects.
Specific Requirements
Undergraduate degree and or masters degree.
A minimum of 2 or 4 years and more of relevant experience in a relevant role is expected, ideally in a customer research, service design or experience consulting role.
Relevant experience in service design or related role such as user experience design or design research
Knowledge of existing and emerging service design tools and methods (Adobe suite, Miro, Figma etc...)
Join Us
At Serco, we believe there is a place here for everyone. A place where you can bring your authentic self to work every day. Our workplace culture is one that embraces diversity and fosters equity, respect, and belonging for every individual. We are committed to equal employment opportunities and creating an inclusive environment that proudly celebrates the perspectives and backgrounds that each of our employees bring to work every day.
Serco is committed to Equal Employment Opportunities and is committed to ensuring the safety of all of its employees through its Zero Harm initiative. Please visit careers.serco.com for more information.