Senior Service Designer

Overview:

Overview 

Be an agent of change on a team committed to achieving client-focused, mission-driven excellence. Steampunk is looking for a Service Designer with an appetite for taking on new challenges.

Who We Are

Steampunk is the explosive collision of human-centered design and traditional government contracting. An employee-owned company with a startup mindset and time-tested approaches tailored for the federal government, we’re passionate about creating solutions that are impactful, practical, scalable, and most importantly, that meet our clients’ ever-changing needs. At Steampunk, we believe in disrupting the status quo and setting the pace in the ecosystem of government contractors, while creatively improving tried-and-true methodologies. We believe in empowering our people to find innovative solutions to intractable problems. We believe the best environment in which to grow and thrive is outside our comfort zone.

While good design makes for a good product, we believe human-centered design makes for an excellent one.

Contributions:

As a

Service D

Responsibilities

• Participate

  in all aspects of discovery to

  understand:

  client mission

  and

  goals;

  stakeholders,

  users

  and their ecosystems; current state journeys; user segments; program and project objectives

• Conduct workshops and interviews to

  frame pain points

  and

  opportunities

  ; define problem statements and

  validate

  hypothesis

• S

  ynthesize research

  and

  data

  to communicate insights

  and make recommendations

  that will shape

  mission/program strategy

  service

  and workflow

  innovations

  , and

  a compelling

  future

  experience

  vision

• Create

  journey maps, service blueprints,

  vision road maps,

  personas,

  ecosystem

  and experience maps

  that articulate

  needs, gaps, and

  actionable recommendations for organizational and

  process

  improvements

• Collaborate and communicate stakeholder and user needs on a cross functional team within an agile

  environment

• Understand and embrace the specifications and constraints of a given technology, platform and/or operational environment

  and understand how research should be integrated into technological

  considerations

• Ensure

  all deliverables across a variety of projects

  are produced at the highest

  quality

Qualifications:

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government security clearance.

• Experience in agile working environments

• 4+ years of experience in human centered design, service design, and/or customer experience design

• Current portfolio demonstrating ideology, methods, tools, skills, and craft

• Thorough knowledge and demonstrated experience conducting primary and secondary research including stakeholder and user-interviews, design-thinking and co-creation workshops and applying those insights to personas, journey maps, process maps, ecosystem maps, roadmaps, stakeholder maps, and service blueprints

• Experience working on a scrum team within the Agile delivery framework and experience integrating research and design into technical sprints including writing stories and story pointing

• Proficiency in tools like Adobe Creative Suite, Mural, and Lucidchart

• Desire to keep pace with ever-changing industry tools and best practices with the ability to make recommendations as needed for the best outcome

• Experience collaborating within a multi-disciplinary delivery team including UX/UI designers, technologists, data scientists, engineers, solution architects, and change managers

• A natural curiosity for solving problems coupled with strong analytical skills

• A collaborative nature with excellent written communication and presentation skills

• Experience working in a project-based environment

• Degree or equivalent experience in HCD, and/or service design

About

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $85,000 to $150,000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.

Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit ~~~

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.