Job Title: Senior CX Strategist
Duration: 4 months
Location: Hybrid out of New York, NY Office.
3 days in the office, Tuesday - Thursdays
Standard Business Hours (EST)
Key Experience and Skills -
- 4-6 years of experience in the following:
- Human-Centered Design Acumen (or Service Design or Design Strategy)
- Human-Centered Design Methods (Translate strategy to execution)
- Experience Strategy Deliverables (journey maps, service blueprints, product vision roadmaps etc.)
- Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Experience with Large Orgs or similar capacity
- Portfolio (journey maps etc.)
Role Profile & Expectations
This is an exciting opportunity to shape end to end customer journeys, define future state experiences, and drive change management to align cross functional teams around the right problems to solve and to solve them in the right ways. You will create and implement cohesive end to end journeys that drive desired behaviors and business impact across complex initiatives.
Core Responsibilities
- Use Human-Centered Design to uncover customer needs, insights, and jobs to be done for priority product/audience journeys that solve for root causes and deliver on business goals.
- Lead, manage and facilitate cross functional workshops to align stakeholders around problems, priorities, and key outcomes.
- Define journey-aligned opportunities and solutions that transform ambiguity into clarity.
- Create experience strategy deliverables such as journey maps, service blueprints, experience roadmaps, and future state visions to communicate opportunities.
- Use storytelling and visualization to drive data-driven decisions and tactics.
- Develop executable roadmaps and experience principles that guide teams from strategy through delivery.
- Collaborate with marketing, product, technology, and other key partners to drive experience strategy implementation, measurement, and continuous improvement.
- Partner on experience strategy practices and rituals, as a key contributor and team player.
Required Qualifications
- Portfolio required with design/experience strategy or service design project examples.
- 4-6 years of experience applying human centered design, service design, or design strategy methods, frameworks, and processes in a professional setting.
- Proven experience leading discovery, synthesis, ideation, prioritization and validation of opportunities and solutions.
- Proven ability in crafting end-to-end journey maps, service blueprints and future state visions.
- Demonstrated experience in using design, business, and innovation tools.
- Strong leadership, stakeholder engagement, and workshop facilitation skills to influence alignment and change management across large, matrixed teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Background in experience strategy, design consulting or in house design strategy teams.
- Experience solving for digital experiences (portals, websites, apps and chats).
- Exposure to B2B, B2C, D2C or financial services environments.
- Proficiency with creative, whiteboarding and collaboration tools (Figma, Miro, Microsoft and Adobe Creative Suite).
- Experience working in or with large organizations.
What you’ll get in return
- Benefits- Health/Vison/Dental & 401k
- $80-$85per hour
- 6‑month contract (one role closer to ~4 months)
- Exposure to large‑scale, enterprise digital products
- Strong portfolio‑building experience with a globally respected organization
