Lead Service Designer - Digital CX

Responsibilities

• Lead across a team of service designers to analyse, define, and improve end-to-end, multi-channels journeys that meet diverse customer needs and align with accessibility standards.
• Drive strategic service design across portfolios, shaping journeys that align with business goals and championing the customer voice.
• Partner with cross-functional leaders in Product, Design, Tech, Ops, and Architecture to deliver joined-up, scalable service solutions that meet real user needs.
• Own the definition, evolution and adoption of service blueprints and journey maps across the customer lifecycle, and develop operational models that enable rather than restrict.
• Work with design leadership to evolve service design methods , improve design operations, and drive adoption of AI-enhanced tools to improve service quality and efficiency.
• Define end-to-end strategies, experience principles, frameworks, customer journeys and CX KPIs that connect digital, assisted, and real-world touchpoints with clarity and consistency.

Requirements

• Track record of leading service design and delivering impactful service design outcomes across large-scale digital products, services, and operations.
• Expert-level skills in journey mapping, service blueprinting, stakeholder mapping, workshop facilitation and systems thinking.
• Advanced use of journey maps, empathy maps, and insight repositories to embed customer needs throughout delivery
• Mastery in accessibility, user research methods to understand customer problems and behaviours, and analytics tools (Usertesting, Adobe Analytics) to understand and improve journeys.
• Strong storytelling, stakeholder influence, and resilience in fast-paced, evolving environments.
• Portfolio:
• Interested? While applying, please include portfolio/content showing evidence of your experience across these four areas:
• People - Helping develop high-performing teams.
• Process - Applying scalable UCD methods that drive measurable outcomes.
• Position - Influencing strategy and embedding design across an organisation.
• Product - Producing provable world-class app-first digital experiences (Outcomes & Impact)
• Benefits and perks
• There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to life at Sky: the perks . Here's a taster:
• Free Sky TV or NOW package , including Sky Sports and Sky Cinema
• Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution
• Private healthcare with mental health support
• Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance
• Discounts on Sky products, including Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband, Sky Glass and Sky Protect
• Sharesave and Tech schemes
• A range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
• How you'll work
• We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. The hybrid working expectations for this role are 3 days in the office per week.
• Your office base
• London (Osterley)
• Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There are also plenty of bike shelters and showers.
• On campus, you'll fi

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Additional Information

We don't just believe in better. We make it happen. Better content. Better products. And better careers. Working in Tech, Product or Data at Sky is about building the next and the new. From broadband to broadcast, streaming to mobile, Sky Stream to Sky Glass, we never stand still. We optimise and innovate. We turn big ideas into the products, content and services millions of people love. And we do it all right here at Sky. Location for this position is flexible, we are accepting candidates who are able to work Hybrid in either our Osterley or Leeds office. Role/Team overview Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe's leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work. As a Lead Service Designer in our digital customer experience team, you'll own the design of world-class customer journeys and service models across sales and service experiences. You'll lead Service Design across Agile teams, drive service design strategy, and be accountable for outcomes that reflect our brand and meet customer needs. Sitting within the Customer Experience Centre of Excellence, you'll contribute to CX strategy, design excellence, and performance across product roadmaps for the UK & Ireland. From joining Sky to engaging with our latest services, we're driven by one purpose: to create better experiences for our customers.

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