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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
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