About the Role
We are seeking a CX & Service Design Lead to own and evolve our end-to-end customer experience. This role involves identifying customer journey friction, reducing unnecessary contact, and designing intuitive services for effective self-service. You will leverage customer insights, data analysis, and service design to enhance pre-purchase, purchase, and post-purchase stages, collaborating with product, support, and operations teams to achieve measurable improvements in customer experience and efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Analyze customer contact drivers across all support channels.
- Identify root causes of customer issues and failure demand.
- Translate data into actionable insights and prioritized improvements.
- Establish reporting on contact trends, drivers, and opportunities.
- Map and maintain end-to-end customer journeys (pre to post purchase).
- Identify friction points and areas of inconsistency.
- Define and prioritize improvements across key journeys.
- Ensure alignment across product, content, and communications.
- Design and optimize services to be simple, intuitive, and scalable.
- Use customer research and behavioral data to inform design decisions.
- Reduce reliance on human support through better service design.
- Lead service design initiatives from concept through to implementation.
- Improve website content, help centers, emails, and customer communications.
- Design effective self-service journeys and support experiences.
- Partner with product and UX teams to improve digital touchpoints.
- Ensure consistency and clarity across all customer-facing content.
- Identify and reduce unnecessary customer contact.
- Address root causes of repeat issues and inefficiencies.
- Partner with support teams to implement improvements.
- Track and report on impact (e.g. contact reduction, CSAT, effort scores).
Requirements
- Proven experience in Customer Experience, Service Design, or Journey Management roles.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret customer and operational data.
- Experience mapping and improving end-to-end customer journeys.
- Understanding of contact center operations and drivers of customer demand.
- Experience designing or improving digital/self-service experiences.
- Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.
- Ability to move between strategy and hands-on execution.
- Experience in fast-paced, scaling, or digital-first businesses.
- Familiarity with CX metrics (CSAT, NPS, CES) and contact centre KPIs.
- Background in UX, product.
- Experience implementing service design frameworks or methodologies.
Skills
- Customer Experience
- Service Design
- Journey Management
- Data Analysis
- Customer Insight
- Stakeholder Management
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- UX
- Product Development
- Service Design Frameworks
- CX Metrics (CSAT, NPS, CES)
- Contact Centre KPIs
Location
- London-based
- Office-based
Work Type
- Hybrid working model
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Real opportunities for progression as the business scales
- The chance to influence both customer experience and product development
- A culture that values ownership, impact, and continuous learning
About the Company
- 1st Formations empowers entrepreneurs to start, run, and grow their businesses with confidence.
- We are a leading UK provider of company formation and compliance services, building a modern, fully integrated technology platform.
- Our platform integrates formation, compliance, accounting, payroll, and ongoing business support.
- We are a Certified B Corp and Carbon Neutral Business.
- We have £18m annual revenue, including £9m ARR.
- We have formed over 1 million companies.
- We are forecast to grow 5x–10x over the next three years.
Equal Opportunity
- 1st Formations is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.
- We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, criminal history, disability, or gender identity.
- We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.
- If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
