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Lead Service Designer jobs are open across government, healthcare, financial services, and enterprise technology, from senior individual contributor to principal and director, with specializations in service blueprinting, end-to-end journey design, and organizational design. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Job Description
Ready to take your career Global?
The CX Journey Research & Service Designer is part research translator, part systems thinker, part facilitator, and part professional problem solver. You’ll help teams see where the experience is breaking down, where customers are doing too much work, where internal handoffs are creating friction, and where we have real opportunities to design something better.
You do not need to be the loudest person in the room, but you do need to be curious, organized, comfortable asking good questions, and able to bring people along when the answer is not simple. If you like making complex things clearer, finding patterns in customer stories, and helping teams move from “we think this is the problem” to “here is what we know and what we can do next,” this role will probably feel like home.
What you'll own:
- Facilitate and lead journey mapping workshops, stakeholder conversations, and customer interviews so we understand the journey from both sides: how touchpoints are delivered inside the business, where friction is showing up, and what customers are experiencing.
- Bring together insights from interviews, surveys, VoC data, support themes, product inputs, operational context, and stakeholder conversations so we are not looking at the customer experience through just one lens.
- Manage project timelines, deliverables, and follow-through so the work keeps moving even when there are multiple stakeholders, shifting priorities, and a lot of moving parts.
- Create customer journey maps, service blueprints, ecosystem maps, and related artifacts that show what customers are trying to do, where things get hard, what they are feeling or needing, and what is happening behind the scenes to shape that experience.
- Identify critical pain points, experience gaps, moments that matter, and recurring themes across customer journeys, then translate findings into prioritized opportunities for experience improvement.
- Help cross-functional partners see the full experience, including the front-stage customer journey and the backstage systems, processes, ownership, tools, and dependencies that make the experience better or worse.
- Help connect journey insights to practical recommendations, roadmap conversations, process improvements, communication needs, training opportunities, product changes, or measurement plans.
- Partner with CX leadership to co-create future-state experience views that support alignment around customer needs and business priorities.
- Work closely with the manager to determine how improvements should be measured over time, including relevant CX metrics such as NPS, CSAT, CES, retention, loyalty, customer effort, operational performance indicators, and financial impact.
- Help build and evolve repeatable journey mapping and service design practices in close partnership with the manager—including templates, documentation, standards, and ways of working that help us scale without reinventing the wheel every time.
What you bring?
- 4+ years of experience in customer experience, service design, UX research, product research, process improvement, insights, or a similar role.
- 3+ years of experience creating journey maps, service blueprints, ecosystem maps, process maps, or other tools that help people understand complex experiences.
- 2+ years of experience facilitating and leading journey mapping workshops, internal discovery interviews, and customer interviews.
- Experience using tools such as Figma/FigJam, Miro, LucidChart, TheyDo, Cemantica, Journey Track, or similar collaboration and design platforms.
- Strong ability to synthesize messy inputs into clear themes, patterns, insights, and opportunities.
- Experience working with both qualitative and quantitative information, including interviews, open-ended feedback, survey data, operational inputs, and stakeholder perspectives.
- A solid understanding of customer experience principles, human-centered design, and the ways customer pain points connect to business outcomes.
- Ability to ask thoughtful questions, listen to what is said and unsaid, and help teams get underneath surface-level problems.
- Strong collaboration and facilitation skills, especially with cross-functional groups that may not always see the experience the same way.
- Ability to communicate clearly through writing, visuals, working sessions, and recommendations that feel practical instead of theoretical.
- Strong project management skills and the ability to keep work moving across competing priorities, incomplete information, and multiple stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field (e.g. UX, Human-Centered Design, Psychology, Sociology, etc.) or equivalent experience.
It's a bonus if you have the following!
- Experience in Payments, FinTech, SaaS, POS systems, or other complex customer-facing technology environments.
- Experience working with SMB, merchant, partner, or enterprise customer journeys.
- Experience facilitating design thinking sessions and stakeholder alignment conversations.
- Familiarity with VoC programs, survey analytics, qualitative coding, customer interviews, text analytics, or mixed-methods research.
- Comfort connecting customer journey insights to roadmap decisions, operational improvements, support strategies, product changes, training, or customer communications.
- A practical, grounded view of what teams can realistically act on — with enough optimism to push for better and enough realism to make the recommendations useful.
Compensation:
Annual Salary Range: $70,000-$80,000
Our perks - what we’ll bring for you:
- A competitive salary and benefits package that recognizes your contribution
- Opportunities to grow your skills and build your career within a global business
- Access to learning, development and on-the-job experiences that expand your expertise
- A supportive, inclusive team environment where your ideas and input matter
- Time to give back through community and charity initiatives
- A global employee assistance program to support your wellbeing
- Recognition through a global platform that celebrates your achievements.
- https://jobs.globalpayments.com/en/why-global-payments/benefits/
About the Team:
Our inclusive and global teams win together every day. We’re proud to have the best minds in the industry, who you can learn from as you grow your career. The people, the energy, the connections – it’s unmatched. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.
What makes a Globalpayer?
Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative – always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.
Does this sound like you? Apply now to take your career global!
#LI-JS1
#LI-Hybrid
Candidates and applicants are advised they may redact age information from requested items like transcripts, resumes, and certificates attached to their application for positions that can be performed in Colorado.
EEOC Statement
Global Payments is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here.
If you are made a conditional offer of employment and will be working in the United States, you will be required to undergo a drug test. In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies and requirements needed to successfully perform the position. Reasonable accommodations will be provided for individuals with qualified disabilities both during the hiring process, as well as to allow the individual to perform the essential functions of the job, if hired.
Washington Candidates: Click here for information on the Fair Chance Act.
Job Description
Ready to take your career Global?
The CX Journey Research & Service Designer is part research translator, part systems thinker, part facilitator, and part professional problem solver. You’ll help teams see where the experience is breaking down, where customers are doing too much work, where internal handoffs are creating friction, and where we have real opportunities to design something better.
You do not need to be the loudest person in the room, but you do need to be curious, organized, comfortable asking good questions, and able to bring people along when the answer is not simple. If you like making complex things clearer, finding patterns in customer stories, and helping teams move from “we think this is the problem” to “here is what we know and what we can do next,” this role will probably feel like home.
What you'll own:
- Facilitate and lead journey mapping workshops, stakeholder conversations, and customer interviews so we understand the journey from both sides: how touchpoints are delivered inside the business, where friction is showing up, and what customers are experiencing.
- Bring together insights from interviews, surveys, VoC data, support themes, product inputs, operational context, and stakeholder conversations so we are not looking at the customer experience through just one lens.
- Manage project timelines, deliverables, and follow-through so the work keeps moving even when there are multiple stakeholders, shifting priorities, and a lot of moving parts.
- Create customer journey maps, service blueprints, ecosystem maps, and related artifacts that show what customers are trying to do, where things get hard, what they are feeling or needing, and what is happening behind the scenes to shape that experience.
- Identify critical pain points, experience gaps, moments that matter, and recurring themes across customer journeys, then translate findings into prioritized opportunities for experience improvement.
- Help cross-functional partners see the full experience, including the front-stage customer journey and the backstage systems, processes, ownership, tools, and dependencies that make the experience better or worse.
- Help connect journey insights to practical recommendations, roadmap conversations, process improvements, communication needs, training opportunities, product changes, or measurement plans.
- Partner with CX leadership to co-create future-state experience views that support alignment around customer needs and business priorities.
- Work closely with the manager to determine how improvements should be measured over time, including relevant CX metrics such as NPS, CSAT, CES, retention, loyalty, customer effort, operational performance indicators, and financial impact.
- Help build and evolve repeatable journey mapping and service design practices in close partnership with the manager—including templates, documentation, standards, and ways of working that help us scale without reinventing the wheel every time.
What you bring?
- 4+ years of experience in customer experience, service design, UX research, product research, process improvement, insights, or a similar role.
- 3+ years of experience creating journey maps, service blueprints, ecosystem maps, process maps, or other tools that help people understand complex experiences.
- 2+ years of experience facilitating and leading journey mapping workshops, internal discovery interviews, and customer interviews.
- Experience using tools such as Figma/FigJam, Miro, LucidChart, TheyDo, Cemantica, Journey Track, or similar collaboration and design platforms.
- Strong ability to synthesize messy inputs into clear themes, patterns, insights, and opportunities.
- Experience working with both qualitative and quantitative information, including interviews, open-ended feedback, survey data, operational inputs, and stakeholder perspectives.
- A solid understanding of customer experience principles, human-centered design, and the ways customer pain points connect to business outcomes.
- Ability to ask thoughtful questions, listen to what is said and unsaid, and help teams get underneath surface-level problems.
- Strong collaboration and facilitation skills, especially with cross-functional groups that may not always see the experience the same way.
- Ability to communicate clearly through writing, visuals, working sessions, and recommendations that feel practical instead of theoretical.
- Strong project management skills and the ability to keep work moving across competing priorities, incomplete information, and multiple stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field (e.g. UX, Human-Centered Design, Psychology, Sociology, etc.) or equivalent experience.
It's a bonus if you have the following!
- Experience in Payments, FinTech, SaaS, POS systems, or other complex customer-facing technology environments.
- Experience working with SMB, merchant, partner, or enterprise customer journeys.
- Experience facilitating design thinking sessions and stakeholder alignment conversations.
- Familiarity with VoC programs, survey analytics, qualitative coding, customer interviews, text analytics, or mixed-methods research.
- Comfort connecting customer journey insights to roadmap decisions, operational improvements, support strategies, product changes, training, or customer communications.
- A practical, grounded view of what teams can realistically act on — with enough optimism to push for better and enough realism to make the recommendations useful.
Compensation:
Annual Salary Range: $70,000-$80,000
Our perks - what we’ll bring for you:
- A competitive salary and benefits package that recognizes your contribution
- Opportunities to grow your skills and build your career within a global business
- Access to learning, development and on-the-job experiences that expand your expertise
- A supportive, inclusive team environment where your ideas and input matter
- Time to give back through community and charity initiatives
- A global employee assistance program to support your wellbeing
- Recognition through a global platform that celebrates your achievements.
- https://jobs.globalpayments.com/en/why-global-payments/benefits/
About the Team:
Our inclusive and global teams win together every day. We’re proud to have the best minds in the industry, who you can learn from as you grow your career. The people, the energy, the connections – it’s unmatched. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.
What makes a Globalpayer?
Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative – always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.
Does this sound like you? Apply now to take your career global!
#LI-JS1
#LI-Hybrid
Candidates and applicants are advised they may redact age information from requested items like transcripts, resumes, and certificates attached to their application for positions that can be performed in Colorado.
EEOC Statement
Global Payments is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here.
If you are made a conditional offer of employment and will be working in the United States, you will be required to undergo a drug test. In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies and requirements needed to successfully perform the position. Reasonable accommodations will be provided for individuals with qualified disabilities both during the hiring process, as well as to allow the individual to perform the essential functions of the job, if hired.
Washington Candidates: Click here for information on the Fair Chance Act.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Food & Beverage
- Banking & Financial Services
- Investment & Asset Management
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in lead service designer jobs.
- Five or more years of service design experience with demonstrated lead or senior ownership
- Proficiency creating service blueprints, journey maps, and stakeholder ecosystems
- Experience facilitating co-design workshops with cross-functional and executive stakeholders
- Portfolio showing end-to-end service design projects from discovery through implementation
- Ability to translate research insights into organizational and operational recommendations
- Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction, or a related field
Tips for Your Lead Service Designer Job Search
Show systems thinking in your portfolio
Lead service designer roles expect evidence of work beyond screens. Include service blueprints, ecosystem maps, and cross-channel journey artifacts. Hiring panels look for how you connected front-stage interactions to back-stage operations and organizational constraints.
Tailor your resume to service maturity
Organizations hiring at the lead level vary widely in service design maturity. Adjust your resume language to match: emphasize practice-building and stakeholder alignment for early-stage orgs, and delivery at scale and governance frameworks for more established teams.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists lead service designer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings that name your research methods
Job descriptions that specify generative research, co-design facilitation, or service prototyping signal teams ready for lead-level work. Prioritize these over postings that describe the role primarily in terms of UX deliverables, which often underpays the service design scope.
Prepare a cross-functional influence story
Lead service designer interviews consistently probe how you've aligned product, operations, policy, and technology stakeholders around a shared service vision. Have a specific example ready where your facilitation changed how a non-design team made a decision.
Negotiate scope before discussing compensation
At the lead level, role scope varies dramatically: some positions own end-to-end service transformation while others are limited to UX research support. Clarify reporting structure, team size, and decision-making authority before entering salary discussions so you're negotiating equivalent roles.
Lead Service Designer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most lead service designers?
Amazon, BNY, and Intuit are hiring the most lead service designers right now, with openings concentrated in New York, California, and Washington, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially active in government consulting, large healthcare systems, and enterprise financial services.
How many lead service designer jobs are remote?
About 64% of lead service designer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting strong demand for distributed senior design talent. Research-heavy and strategy-focused subsets of the role tend to be the most remote-friendly, while positions tied to in-person facilitation or on-site service operations typically require a physical presence.
How do you become a lead service designer?
Start by building a portfolio that shows full-service design cycles, not just UX deliverables. Develop fluency in service blueprinting, systems mapping, and facilitation. Seek projects that require aligning operations, technology, and policy, not only product teams. Progress through senior individual contributor roles where you own a service problem end-to-end before moving into lead responsibilities.
Can you get a lead service designer job without much direct experience?
It's difficult to enter at the lead level without prior service design ownership, but adjacent experience in UX research, organizational design, or business process improvement can bridge the gap. Build service blueprints for real or speculative projects, document your cross-functional facilitation work, and target organizations that are still building their service design practice, where the bar for prior title equivalency is lower.
What does the lead service designer interview process look like?
Expect a portfolio review where you walk through a complete service design project, explaining your research approach, blueprint artifacts, and how your work influenced organizational decisions. Most processes also include a stakeholder alignment exercise or take-home design challenge. Final rounds typically involve cross-functional panels with product, engineering, operations, and sometimes executive sponsors who evaluate strategic communication as much as craft.
Where can I find and apply to lead service designer jobs?
You can find and apply to lead service designer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your experience level and specialization, then apply directly to each listing that fits your background and goals.
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