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Service Design Principal

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Job Description:

The Service Design Principal is our most senior service design individual contributor and a strategic leader responsible for owning, defining, and driving missions to transform major end-to-end customer experiences that deliver significant customer and business value. You’ll work across all business units and with key sponsors and stakeholders from the C-suite down to ensure omnichannel experiences are measurably more desirable, viable, feasible, and sustainable, driving significant channel shift towards digital and self-serve experiences for our customers and BT colleagues.

Job Responsibility:

  • Take full accountability for the service design vision and strategy for a portfolio, domain, or major client account, aligning it to organisational goals
  • Define, structure, and drive ambitious missions to deliver measurable value, proactively creating accountability for results and building momentum behind change across programs
  • Lead the design of complex, cross-channel journeys that span multiple products, business units, and operational systems,working with Product Design Leads to ensure seamless customer journeys
  • Partner with CX Office, senior executives and stakeholders at all levels to define problem spaces, prioritise opportunities, and shape roadmaps for service transformation
  • Work across all silos to facilitate the creation of joined-up omnichannel experiences that drive significant channel shift towards digital and self-serve
  • Provide expert, straight-talking guidance, critique, and direction to project teams, ensuring quality and coherence of service experiences
  • Develop and evolve frameworks, methods, and standards for service design, ensuring adoption across teams
  • Collaborate with the Service Design Lead to build and nurture a strong service design community, mentoring to create service design excellence and contributing to hiring and resource planning
  • Represent service design in key governance forums, steering groups, and external events
  • Drive outcome-based practice by defining key service metrics, framing hypotheses, and embedding continuous improvement loops
  • Collaborate with Commercial/Finance and Portfolio leads to shape propositions and delivery models for service-led engagements
  • Champion an inclusive, customer-focused approach, ensuring that every service is designed with the needs of customers and colleagues at its heart
  • Foster teamwork and collaboration across the organisation, acting as a visible champion for the discipline

Requirements:

  • Outstanding stakeholder management and facilitation skills, able to influence from the C-suite down
  • Proactive, forward-leaning stance, taking the initiative to structure programmes of work and drive accountability
  • Deep service design expertise with extensive experience delivering large-scale, complex services in corporate or public sector environments
  • Experience operating as a trusted advisor to senior executives, influencing strategy and investment decisions
  • Demonstrable ability to lead multiple teams or programmes simultaneously and to manage design at portfolio level
  • Highly skilled in facilitation, systems thinking, storytelling, and sense-making across diverse stakeholder groups
  • Strong understanding of organisational change, operations, and technology, and how these intersect with service design
  • Experience establishing or maturing service design practices or communities of practice in large organisations or leading consultancies
  • Comfortable with ambiguity, able to frame problems, create structure, and guide others through uncertainty
  • Extensive experience across service design, strategy setting, and leading transformation
  • Influencing and coaching at senior levels
  • Demonstrable ability to drive organisational change and deliver measurable outcomes
What we offer:
  • 15% on target bonus
  • Health Care
  • Car Allowance
  • BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
  • From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up
  • Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more
  • 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
  • 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
  • 2 weeks carer’s leave
  • World-class training and development opportunities
  • Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 01, 2026

Expiration:
March 10, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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