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Steampunk Service Designer in McLean, Virginia
Overview
As a Steampunk Service Designer , you will be responsible forguiding government clients through design thinking processes to generate creative, practical, and effective solutions to their pressing challenges in strategy, process, technology, and service delivery. You will co-create solutions with clients to improve the success of technology implementations and work with a multifunctional team to translate business requirements into achievable technical components.
Contributions
Apply an iterative, design thinking process and lens to support clients to solve complex problems in strategic planning, process improvement, technology adoption and evolution, and service delivery.
Design and deliver customized, engaging, results-oriented interventions and workshops to improve organizational and team performance.
Collaborate with government stakeholders to co-design session agendas, prompts, and exercises that help participants achieve their objectives with design thinking workshops.
Facilitate design thinking workshops.
Use design thinking principles (ideation, prototyping, testing, and feedback) and tools (personas, journey maps, prototyping tools, etc.) to facilitate usability testing and problem-solving sessions for a range of government audiences, from senior leaders to front-line implementers.
Perform research and convert insights from leading designers, strategists, and technologists into solutions to meet organizational management challenges.
Craft compelling stories and visual models to communicate insights and discoveries.
Communicate with government stakeholders and decision-makers in compelling ways using a variety of visual media.
Collaborate within a Salesforce development Scrum team to ideate on and test solutions and achieve Sprint goals.
Qualifications
Required Skills:
Must be a U.S. citizen eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance
Bachelors Degree (Preferred Concentration of Arts in Design or related field) and minimum 7 years work experience
3+ years of experience in human centered design, facilitation, service design, or customer experience
Thorough knowledge and demonstrated experience applying design thinking principles and tools to solve client challenges
Exceptional oral and written communication and presentation skills, with proficiency in multiple methods of visual communication
Experience in group facilitation, including with groups of senior organizational leaders
Experience working in a project-based environment
Strong problem solving and analytical skills
Preferred Skills:
Graphical design experience
UX/UI experience
Experience working on a cross-functional Salesforce implementation team
Experience working within an Agile Scrum environment
Knowledge of Salesforce platform tools and capabilities a plus
About steampunk
Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology , we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company , we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com .
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.
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Job Location US-VA-McLean
Posted Date 2 weeks ago (4/17/2024 1:16 PM)
Job ID 5192
Clearance Requirement Public Trust