Lead Service Designer

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · LONDON, LONDON, United Kingdom · Corporate Sector

Lead Service Designer at JPMorgan Chase in London, focusing on shaping customer experiences across channels by developing service strategies, propositions, and journeys. This role involves partnering with various teams including Product, Design, Engineering, Operations, and Risk & Compliance to enhance end-to-end service experiences. Requires strong experience in service design methodologies, user research, and portfolio demonstration.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and implement a comprehensive service strategy to focus on direct and indirect experiences, aligning business objectives and customer experience enhancement across multiple products and platforms
  2. Develop clear future‑state service propositions, journeys, and concepts that deliver value to customers and the business
  3. Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Operations, Customer Support, Risk & Compliance, Legal, and Data to shape end‑to‑one service experiences across channels and touchpoints
  4. Work with UX Research and Data to plan, conduct, and synthesise research to inform and validate service design deliverables
  5. Lead cross-functional teams to create storyboards, service blueprints, and research to identify pain points and opportunities for improvement

Skills

Required

  • Solid hands-on experience in roles such as Senior or Lead Service designer or a related field, focusing on end-to-end customer experiences
  • Proven record in service design projects, including journey mapping, service blueprinting, and storyboarding
  • Experience in conducting user research to inform service design outcomes
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating end‑to‑end service design work: from discovery and insight through to service blueprints and future‑state journeys
  • Strong communication skills to articulate service design artefacts to stakeholders
  • Represent service design in key governance and decision forums & experience with fast-paced, iterative design approaches involving frequent testing and refining of concepts
  • Strong collaborative skills to build alignment across diverse teams & Degree in Design, Service Design, HCI, Behavioural Science, Business, or related field – or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

  • Ability to work in cross-functional teams, facilitate collaboration, and encourage consensus toward common goals and objectives
  • Confident leading workshops, co‑creation sessions, and playback meetings with senior, cross‑functional stakeholders
  • Comfortable presenting and tailoring communication style for different audiences
  • Builds trusted relationships with Product, Engineering, Operations, Risk, and Compliance

What the JD emphasized

  • end-to-end customer experiences
  • service design projects
  • user research
  • end-to-end service design work
  • Risk & Compliance