Senior Service Designer - USA Remote

Senior Service Designer

Job Description

The Senior Service Designer will be responsible for designing end-to-end journeys of employee-facing services

using human-centered methods and processes to solve experience challenges.

Services (ATS) organization, consisting of researchers and designers. The role of this team is to create new and

optimize current digital and physical workplace experiences for Adobe's employees, enabling improved

employee satisfaction, productivity, and business outcomes.

The Senior Service Design Strategist will enable service experiences that are designed around the people that

use them. This role is both strategic design thinking and design doing. This multidisciplinary design role involves

leveraging the full range of experience and exercising skills in service design, research, strategy, and product

design. Additionally, as part of the UX team, the Senior Service Designer/Strategist will evangelize the value of

Service Design internally and establish standard practices throughout the ATS org.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate the creation of aligned strategic visions for department services
• Leverage the insights, patterns, and desires from partner department projects to build the roadmaps

and priorities of platforms and products

• Analyze how policies, interpersonal dynamics, history, and organizational structure impact service

delivery

• Help partner departments navigate changing touchpoints, tools, and processes, determining the impact

on current operations and how much change they can take on with each iteration

• Identify new opportunities to improve systems and processes with technology
• Advocate for the benefits of service design to colleagues and collaborators to help them understand the

value

• Establish standards for what good service design looks like
• Lead the early stages of projects, conducting discovery with colleagues to understand, document, and

communicate the current process and challenges

• Facilitate discovery sessions and workshops that uncover customer/employee/user problems, identify

enterprise opportunities and propose new solutions

• Analyze and evaluate the constraints and possibilities of our complex systems and platforms
• Work with the UX Research team to plan and conduct thoughtful and ethical user research with users,

front line staff and partners

• Work co-creatively with partner department staff to develop and recommend design solutions that are

both desirable and feasible

• Translate employee needs into business/product/service requirements, and champion the (researchinformed)

employee experience

• Design the future state of backstage systems and front-stage user experiences.
• Craft and deliver compelling stories and presentations to communicate insights, concepts, plans and

impact

• Create deliverables to express design solutions to the team and our partners, such as service blueprints,

journey maps, and system maps

Skills and Competencies

• 7+ years of relevant professional experience
• Experience (and a love of!) solving complex design and technology problems using systems thinking
• Ability to lead projects autonomously, including workshops, brainstorms, and service design consults on

initiatives across various business units

• Possess strong presentation, storytelling, and communication skills
• Justify design decisions using research and data
• Excel in facilitation and workshop leadership
• Apply design research to uncover employee needs and challenges
• Exhibit strong collaboration and relationship-building abilities
• Be creative in how to solve ambiguous and complex problems
• Bachelor s degree in Design, Service Design, HCI, or related field required
• Master's degree preferred