Senior Service Designer
| Posting date: | 10 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £57,946 to £68,205 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 November 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 7UE |
| Company: | DWP Digital |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 435920_1762781801 |
Summary
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
We are looking for a hands-on Senior Service Designer with deep experience in creating end-to-end services that solve complex challenges to join us at DWP Digital.
We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.
DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.
The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.
The skills, knowledge and experience you need:
Service Design Expertise: Proven experience designing end-to-end, front-to-back services that address complex challenges across departments or business areas.
User-Centred Design: Strong ability to apply evidence-based design principles that meet user, colleague, and organisational needs.
Strategic Communication: Skilled in engaging and influencing stakeholders at all levels to support design decisions and service outcomes.
Collaboration & Facilitation: Capable of leading conversations, building consensus, and fostering teamwork across multidisciplinary groups.
Mentorship & Community Engagement: Experience mentoring others and contributing to a culture of openness, learning, and shared practice within the service design community.
Tools & Visualisation: Confident in using service design tools, storytelling, and visualisation techniques to articulate service journeys and performance insights.
Design with Purpose: What you'll do
As our new Senior Service Designer, you'll lead efforts to understand and improve service performance, using storytelling and visualisation to communicate complex service journeys.
You'll guide teams in applying service design methods, facilitate stakeholder engagement, and help align user needs with business and policy goals. The role involves working with cross-functional teams to design inclusive, resilient services that support the Government's "Get Britain Working" vision.
Our ideal candidate has substantial experience designing end-to-end services, strong communication skills, and the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
You'll use your skills and experience to foster collaboration within teams and the wider service design community, mentor others, and contribute to building a culture of openness and learning.
This role is both strategic and hands-on, offering a chance to shape services that truly matter.
Details. Wages. Perks.
Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you.
Regular travel between digital hubs is expected as part of the role (travel counts as working time, and your travel and expenses are paid)
Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home (40%) and some time collaborating face to face in a hub (60%).
Pay: We offer competitive pay for this role of up to £68,205.
Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%, worth £16,786 per year.
Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.
You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.
We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
- Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
- Time off volunteering and charitable giving
- Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
- Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
- Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
- Sports and social activities
- Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
Process:
We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages:
- Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.
- Interview: a single stage interview online.
CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.
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