
Service Designer – Contract
Vivid Solutions Inc.
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Victoria • Canada
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Salary
💰 CA$95 - CA$110 per hour
About the role
- Apply human-centred design principles and best practices across the service design lifecycle to ensure services and products are usable, accessible, and grounded in user needs.
- Collaborating and managing the end-to-end journey of a service or product, from initial concept through to delivery for the client.
- Full cycle strategy including user research, gap analysis and journey mapping.
- Analyze and synthesize data to identify themes and opportunities, telling compelling user experience stories and providing actionable insights.
- Developing visual communications and infographics including presentation materials, service blueprints, user journey maps, and other user experience design artifacts.
- Look for commonalities in activities across services where solutions could be made.
- Planning and facilitation of workshops and presentations.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and clients, offering leadership, expertise, and recommendations to drive improvements and change.
- Contributing to the development of information architecture, UX/UI design and user flows.
- Maintain quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
- Use design research, particularly qualitative research, to drive key insights and inform strategies.
- Develop meaningful profiles, personas and scenarios.
Requirements
- 5 + years of experience in Service Design and/or as a Product Owner/Manager, in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
- A strong portfolio that clearly demonstrates strengths in both UX and visual design skills.
- Experience working on an Agile development team.
- Strong relationship-building skills, working effectively in cross-functional teams and managing stakeholders through collaboration and communication.
- Excellent presentation and communication skills, capable of conveying information persuasively to clients at all levels and influencing others to achieve objectives.
- Proficient in storytelling, both visually (e.g., Miro, PowerPoint, etc.) and verbally, to create persuasive narratives.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate, coach and mentor others.
- Experience creating, developing, and executing facilitation and planning workshops.
- Experience developing visual communications and infographics that are human-centred.
- An aptitude for learning and applying new digital technologies and tools.
Benefits
- Unique work experience that balances making a tangible impact with continuous growth and stability
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
service designuser researchgap analysisjourney mappinginformation architectureUX/UI designuser flowsvisual communicationsinfographicsstorytelling
Soft Skills
collaborationrelationship-buildingcommunicationpresentation skillsleadershipcoachingmentoringfacilitationplanninginsight generation