Code for America

Government can and should work well for everyone. We're people-centered problem solvers showing that it's possible.

Staff Service Designer

DesignerDesignerFull TimeRemoteTeam 201-500Since 2009H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

87 days ago

Salary

$128.9K - $157.9K / year

Bachelor Degree6 yrs expEnglish

Job Description

• Independently lead service design execution across multiple large and complex projects or workstreams as an individual contributor. • Demonstrate strong analytical and creative thinking on how to improve the end-to-end, front-to-back, and multi-modal user experience across your assigned product, project, or portfolio. • Understand the relevant policies, infrastructure, technology, and system constraints that affect the experience within a given government service. • Highlight potential gaps and areas of opportunity for improvement across the whole service, including client, staff, or processes, focusing holistically on all channels of interaction. • Use common service design methods and artifacts to document proposed service interventions and clearly communicate your understanding to the team and government partners of current and proposed future state of a service, such as journey maps, service blueprints, system diagrams, and ecosystem maps. • Define ways in which a service intervention’s impact can be measured and how impact metrics ladder up to stakeholder goals and user needs. • Participate in planning and carrying out user research activities and synthesizing research findings, typically in partnership with qualitative user researchers. • Create and test design interventions and/or hypotheses by creating low, mid, or high-fidelity prototypes. Use these to generate useful feedback and iterate towards the best solution for people impacted. • Partner closely with individual contributors and managers from other disciplines (e.g., engineering, research, product, data science, and program) to find elegant but practical solutions to design challenges. • Design and facilitate collaborative sessions/workshops with internal and external stakeholders to gather input on design directions, identify priority user stories to focus on, and drive alignment around strategic design directions. • Develop and maintain collaborative, professional relationships with government partners, CBOs, and advisory consultants necessary to achieve successful project outcomes. • Deliver presentations to internal and external partners that capture attention and convey key messages succinctly, using storytelling techniques and visual communication to highlight client and worker experience. • Participate in project or portfolio conversations and provide your input as a service design subject matter expert to inform strategic decisions about project and product direction. • Participate in operational and best-practices initiatives within the Service Design discipline and the broader User Experience department. • Act as a mentor to support more junior design staff in their work by pairing, coaching, and raising the quality bar of outputs. • Deliver constructive critical design feedback to UX and service design peers. • Serve as a champion of Service Design across the organization, participating in teaching and learning opportunities, and evangelizing human-centered design. • Contribute to the organization's credibility and thought leadership in design. • Other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

  • At least 6 years of service design and/or design strategy experience, with 2 years at a senior or staff level
  • Direct experience working in government services, public policy, civic service design, civic tech, or social impact design in the public sector
  • Demonstrated ability to design, test, implement, and measure complex multi-channel experiences that include technology systems, business processes, policy constraints, and client-facing artifacts
  • A portfolio of service design work that outlines your design process, deliverables, and impact
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple high-priority initiatives and complex workstreams, including early-stage discovery as well as delivery of tactical design improvements to existing processes and technical systems
  • Experience mentoring designers and communicating the value of design to stakeholders and cross-functional partners.
  • Willingness to travel for research and partner collaboration (up to 10% of the time)
  • Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile software development environment
  • Passion for our mission of making government services better for people who need them.

Benefits

  • Leadership and teammates who share a strong work ethic and values, and who respect and care for one another
  • A collaborative, cross-functional, hardworking, and joyful environment
  • Laptop provided
  • $700 remote environment setup; $200 stipend and up to $500 reimbursement, in accordance with our equipment policy
  • Cell phone and/or internet reimbursement of $50 per month
  • $1000 annual (per calendar year) stipend towards professional development; prorated at time of hire
  • Up to $1000 of professional development funds can be rolled over each year, up to a maximum of $2000
  • Employees under 3 years are eligible for a 100% employer match of up to 3% of employee contribution
  • Employees with 3+ years are eligible for an additional 50% employer contribution over 3%, to a maximum of 5%
  • Full benefits package with options up to 100% coverage toward select medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Employer contributes up to 80% of the cost towards dependent and family coverage
  • Code for America employees may work remotely across the US
  • Code for America employees main residence must be within the US
  • Full-time employees work 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday
  • Collaborative working hours: we aim to hold all internal meetings between 10 AM - 3 PM PT. We expect all Code for America staff to be available during these set working hours
  • Open personal time off, a minimum of 16 paid holidays, and an org-wide closure from Christmas Day through New Year's Day
  • Paid sick time; up to 96 hours annually
  • Competitive paid parental and family leave
  • 4 weeks of paid sabbatical after 4 years of service, with an option of up to 4 additional weeks of unpaid time away

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