Service Design Principal

Role Overview

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.