Hybrid Senior Experience Design Lead

at Travelers

• Job title: Senior Experience Design Lead
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $120,400 - $198,700 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Hartford, United States

About the role

• Leading experience design initiatives for Travelers' Experience Design team. Collaborating across teams to enhance user experiences through research and design leadership.

Responsibilities

• Provide domain-specific and data-driven expertise and experience design leadership for initiatives and activities, while supporting product and journey vision and strategy, identifying and mitigating risks, and informing decision-making for the organization.
• Communicate design direction and rationale, solicit feedback, and lead prioritization and application.
• Lead the research and design of solutions for products and services by defining, creating, and improving models, concepts, and design elements (e.g., experience goals, journey maps, information architecture, scenarios, personas, interactions, content, visuals, etc.) guided by established design objectives, principles, and standards.
• Identify, plan, and execute research and testing activities to gather user experience data, evaluate the usability of solutions, and determine the effectiveness of concepts; analyze, evaluate, describe, report results and recommendations to design stakeholders.
• Guide collaborative activities with various stakeholders in an Agile environment (i.e., end users, other business and technology functions, and outside partners), integrating and advancing a human-centered focus that informs work through research-based insights and design exploration.
• Identify and influence the adoption of new and improved tools, methods, and processes.
• Guide and mentor other XD staff to support their advancement, lead and take part in team and practice development, grow leadership capacity, and help to attract high quality talent to the XD practice.
• If managing others, set performance goals, provide ongoing feedback, and conduct standard performance reviews.

Requirements

• Experience in a related field, such as HCI, VCD, Service Design, Anthropology, etc.
• Seven years of related experience.
• One year of leadership experience (formal management or other).
• Adept with AI tools and AI-enabled experiences (assistant patterns, trust/safety, human handoff) is a strong differentiator.
• Ability to clearly correlate insights and metrics to experience decisions that tie directly to business and customer objectives.
• Experience planning and executing sequences of activities, or entire projects using Figma, Jira, or similar tools.
• Strong knowledge of most areas, along with proficiency in application of three or more: Design research, Information architecture, Interaction design, Visual design, Content design (strategy, writing, editing for interaction), Information design, Service design, Prototyping, Presentation and communication, Collaboration and facilitation, Design strategy, Usability testing, Data analysis, Design Systems.

Benefits

• Health Insurance : Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, domestic partners, and children – are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
• Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum.
• If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account.
• You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
• Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
• Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
• Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.