AVP CX Experience Design

When you join the team at Unum you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.

Here we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout lifes moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this we provide:

• Award-winning culture

• Inclusion and diversity as a priority

• Performance Based Incentive Plans

• Competitive benefits package that includes: Health Vision Dental Short & Long-Term Disability

• Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)

• Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution

• Mental health support

• Career advancement opportunities

• Student loan repayment options

• Tuition reimbursement

• Flexible work environments

And thats just the beginning

With 10000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether youre directly supporting a growing family or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others and join Team Unum today!

Considering applicants in Chattanooga TN Portland Maine and Atlanta GA.
This role is CX Design leader of a team responsible for translating CX strategy via human-centered design into scalable programs driving execution through agile delivery change management and journey-based transformation that results in a significant competitive advantage for Unum by working with key initiative leaders and by applying agile methodology.
The incumbent will lead a team of Strategic Experience Designers who are responsible for the design and implementation of (continuous) changes within the area of responsibility in line with the change agenda (within budget timelines and quality standards) considering the overall strategy of the CXO. Serving as a key conduit between admin systems enterprise wide and the CX Organization. This roles primary focus will be on design and delivery.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Establish and lead the experience design strategy ensuring customer lifecycles and experiences align with organizational priorities value stream objectives and customer needs.
• Lead a team of experience design professionals responsible for identifying designing and optimizing end-to-end customer experiences that improve customer outcomes and business performance.
• Translate customer insights Voice of Customer feedback market trends and operational data into strategic experience improvements and transformation opportunities.
• Partner with executive leaders across business operations digital product and technology teams to embed customer-centered design principles into strategic planning prioritization and execution.
• Co-Develop and govern enterprise experience design standards methodologies and frameworks to ensure consistency scalability and alignment across customer touchpoints.
• Drive experience transformation initiatives facilitating cross-functional collaboration to remove customer friction improve ease of doing business and deliver measurable value.
• Partnering with the business establish performance indicators to evaluate the effectiveness of experience improvements and demonstrate impact on customer and business outcomes.
• Influence investment decisions and strategic priorities by advocating for customer needs and leveraging insights to identify opportunities for innovation and competitive differentiation.
• Serve as the key leader and champion for human-centered design practices fostering a culture of customer obsession continuous improvement and innovation.
• Ensure experience design efforts contribute to key enterprise goals including customer satisfaction loyalty retention growth operational efficiency and value stream success.

Job Specifications

• Bachelors degree in Design Art Marketing Service Design or a related field required.
• Masters degree (MBA or related discipline) preferred.
• 10 years of progressive experience in Customer Experience (CX) Experience Design Service Design Journey Management Product Design or related disciplines.
• 5 years of leadership experience managing teams and leading enterprise-wide customer experience initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience designing and improving end-to-end customer journeys across multiple channels and touchpoints.
• Proven track record of leading large-scale transformation efforts and influencing strategic business decisions.
• Experience partnering with executive leaders across business operations technology digital product and customer-facing functions.
• Experience leveraging customer insights Voice of Customer programs analytics and market research to drive business improvements.

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Unum and Colonial Life are part of Unum Group a Fortune 500 company and leading provider of employee benefits to companies worldwide. Headquartered in Chattanooga TN with international offices in Ireland Poland and the UK Unum also has significant operations in Portland ME and Baton Rouge LA - plus over 35 US field offices. Colonial Life is headquartered in Columbia SC with over 40 field offices nationwide.

Unum is an equal opportunity employer considering all qualified applicants and employees for hiring placement and advancement without regard to a persons race color religion national origin age genetic information military status gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression disability or protected veteran status.

The base salary range for applicants for this position is listed below. Unless actual salary is indicated above in the job description actual pay will be based on skill geographical location and experience.

$133500.00-$274100.00

Additionally Unum offers a portfolio of benefits and rewards that are competitive and comprehensive including healthcare benefits (health vision dental) insurance benefits (short & long-term disability) performance-based incentive plans paid time off and a 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not. All benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of individual Plans.

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Unum