Service Designer Consultant

We Are:

Accenture Song accelerates growth and value for our clients through sustained customer relevance. Our capabilities span ideation to execution: growth, product and experience design; technology and experience platforms; creative, media and marketing strategy; and campaign, content and channel orchestration. With strong client relationships and deep industry expertise, we help our clients operate at the speed of life through the unlimited potential of imagination, technology and intelligence. Visit us at: Accenture Song

Our mission within our Design Experience practice is to make people’s lives better and drive sustainable growth for clients by reimagining industries, value propositions, products and services, and operating models. Globally, we are a community of 2,000 designers, strategists and innovative brains working across geographic boards with the same mission. With expertise in human-centered design, growth strategy, business, service, and interaction design, customer and employee experience, organization design, and venturing and incubation, we design holistic experiences that resonate and evolve with its users, supporting brand values across a wide variety of touchpoints.

At Accenture Song, Service & Experience Design are at the heart of our design process. Our service and experience designers are a diverse team of strategic, empathetic thinkers and deep interaction specialists who envision and craft experiences across digital and physical channels.

The Work:

As a Service Designer Consultant, you will contribute to interaction design and service design activities on projects, including client workshops, creative brainstorms, interaction design, and service design definition. This is your opportunity to be part of a team that is creating positive impact for our clients and the world by creating products and services that people love.

• Uncover user needs through research, develop deep insights, generate concepts, and craft how people will interact with the products and services we design.
• Participate in and occasionally lead service and experience design activities, including client workshops, user interviews, and creative brainstorms.
• Collaborate with our strategy, business design, and product design teams to understand user and business needs, identify design opportunities, and create meaningful service experiences.
• Making ideas tangible for your client through visual storytelling and service design techniques.
• Drive a user-centered design process that spans all phases of development, from framing a service opportunity to coordinating service delivery implementation.
• Explain, discuss, and justify design decisions eloquently. Give effective feedback and direction to other team members.
• Frame and tell the story of design solutions, explaining the teams thinking and rationale in a compelling way. Contribute to the communication of research findings, conceptual ideas, service strategy, service delivery, and implementation.
• Own service and experience design deliverables such as behavioral customer segmentation, experience maps, user journeys, service blueprints, interaction models, process documentation, and workflows.
• Advance the practice of Service and Experience Design as a discipline and practice, building and pulling in state-of-the-art methods from external and internal expertise.
• Be a service and human-centered design ambassador within Accenture and the broader design community, attending and helping to plan practice and community events, workshops, and conferences. Contribute to articles, books, and other media on behalf of Accenture Song.

Here’s what you need:

• Experience and Expertise:
  • 3+ years of in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience in design research, interaction design, and service design across diverse users, business challenges, and both digital and physical touchpoints.
  • 3+ years of experience driving and applying user-centered design processes and activities.
  • 2+ years of experience planning, designing, facilitating, and synthesizing workshops.
  • 2+ years of experience creating experience maps, user journeys, service blueprints, interaction models, user flows, and wireframes.
  • 2+ years of experience with rapid prototyping methods, ranging from paper sketching to digital prototypes..

• Skills and Knowledge:
  • Strong knowledge of and curiosity about technology and its impact on design solutions.
  • Understanding of various specializations within the broader design landscape, including (but not limited to) Business Design, Growth Strategy, Product Design, Visual Design, and Content Design.
  • Willingness to expand your skillset into adjacent specializations while refining your primary expertise.
  • Ability to lead teams in creating experience maps, user journeys, service blueprints, interaction models, process documentation, and workflows.

• Additional Requirements:
  • A minimum of a high school diploma or GED is required.
  • Must be eligible for Reliability Clearance Status.
  • Proficiency in English is essential, as this role involves regular interaction with stakeholders across Canada, the US, and other countries where English is the common language. Due to the high volume of English-speaking interactions inherent to this position, reorganizing activities to avoid this requirement is not feasible.

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Eligibility to obtain Security Reliability clearance.
• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• Composure in high-pressure situations with a “big-picture” perspective.
• Ability to quickly learn new software; experience with tools such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Figma, Axure, Confluence, ADO, or JIRA is a plus.
• Experience working collaboratively with customers and cross-functional team members.
• Bilingual proficiency in French and English.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location,
role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time
employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.

The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.

The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role.

It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location                                Hourly Salary Range

British Columbia/Ontario            $27.16 to $51.20

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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