Senior Service Designer

Softrams is one of the fastest growing Digital Services firm in the Washington Metropolitan regions crafting human centered, empowering digital services with focus on HX, AI, Cloud, DevOps and Cyber Security. Offices in Leesburg VA, Baltimore MD and Plano TX and teams across USA.1.      Recognized as one of the Top Workplaces in Technology (2021)2.      INC 5000, Fastest growing companies in America (2nd year in a row)3.      Washington Business Journal Top 75 Fastest Growing Companies in Greater Washington area4.      2020 NXT UP - Top Federal Emerging Technology and consulting firms5.      2020 Inaugural DC Metro’s Most Successful Companies6.      2020 Washington Technology Fast 507.      NVTC Tech 100 (2019, 2020) Softrams, an award-winning healthcare technology company, is looking for an experienced, ambitious, Senior UX Designer with experience in building engaging, user-friendly web and mobile applications. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of the health IT field and experience working with DevOps teams to iteratively develop the product vision. 
Join The TeamWe are looking for a Senior Service Designer to join our Human Experience (HX) team to guidediscovery, exploration, build, and evaluation of transformative federal services and products. 

You will make a great fit, if you have:

• 5 or more years of experience in working in Service Design, Experience Design, CX, User Experience Research, or User Experience Design
• Experience with planning, designing, coordinating, and facilitating human centered design (HCD) activities to include customers, agents, and business stakeholders
• Deep understanding of diversity, equity, and inclusivity (DEI).
• Experience in creating proposed or enhanced service models through the creation of journey maps, service blueprints, user flows, storyboards, protocols, etc.
• Experience in defining product and service strategies for immediate, near-term, and long term
• Experience in connecting service design vision and requirements to product design teams of researchers, designers, business analysts, and engineers
• Strong collaboration in working with Business, Engineering, and Product Owners
• Experience in advocating for design decisions using business logic and data
• Experience in designing usable, accessible and empowering B2B and B2C services and products

On a day-to-day basis you will:

• Work directly with stakeholder groups to include Customers (end users), agents (engaging directly with customers), business, client teams, scrum teams, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), etc.
• Establish best practices for working with stakeholders at the beginning of a program and throughout the service and/or product delivery lifecycle
• Plan, design and execute research activities
• Create artifacts and documentation that can be consumable by a broader audience
• Meet regularly with Product Owners and product teams to align on product vision and strategy
• Advocate for the Voice of the Customer (VoC) and the desired Customer Experience (CX)
• Collaborate with teams to Identify service design initiatives and track them using Jira tickets
• Lead and participate in group working sessions with researchers, designers, and business analysts
• Create clarity and alignment on current state and future models by generating clear and accessible service and product design artifacts
• Create prototypes of proposed services and/or products using digital tools and applications
• Proactively review and understand existing product, environment, eco-system, information architecture, key user workflows
• Review product analytics, customer service data and other sources to understand patterns, personas and key usage scenarios
• Help team and agency stakeholders by providing insightful documentation that is accessible to broader audiences
• Collaborate with researchers, designers and other team members
• Participate and guide your team to participate in sharing lessons learned, new concepts, methods in learning events like brownbag sessions, DEMO Days and external events like meetups, conferences, and webinars

Additional requirements:

• Samples of work that can show your familiarity with service design are required to be considered for this opportunity, this can be in the form of a presentation, case study, readout, etc.
• Preference for those with experience around usability and building 508-compliant web applications.
• Must have been a resident of the United States for at least 3 years in the most recent 5 years to qualify for public trust clearance.

Public Trust ClearanceThis role requires the hired candidate to go through public clearance. A minimum of 3 years of stay in the U.S. within the last 5 years is a must to be eligible to qualify for public trust clearance sponsor