AVP Experience Design, Personal Insurance

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 170 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range

What Will You Do?

• Leverage domain-specific expertise and leadership to contribute to functional business plans with bottom-line impact for the company, and serve as a trusted advisor and expert across business areas.
• Guide effective communication of design strategies and objectives, ensuring the coordination of work across teams and organizations, and enabling continuous collection, analysis, and application of feedback.
• Establish and manage achievement of XD function strategic objectives for your organization, including policies, practices, staffing, and budgets.
• Set strategic priorities and guide others in collaborative definition and refinement of models, concepts, and design elements (e.g., experience goals, journey maps, information architecture, scenarios, personas, interactions, content, etc.) leveraging and shaping design objectives, principles, and standards.
• Support and promote a culture of research and testing that engages various stakeholders in observing and understanding the experiences of users and invests in effective measurement of human-centered outcomes.
• Partner across functions to foster a collaborative environment and champion a human-centered approach that leverages research-based insights, experimentation, and data-informed decision making, enabling key stakeholders to participate in the creation of design strategy and objectives.
• Set strategic objectives and approaches and guide the definition and adoption of new and improved tools, methods, and processes.
• Coach and mentor senior XD staff and leaders to ensure their advancement, shape goals and strategies for practice development, grow leadership influence, and lead efforts to recruit and hire top candidates across the organization.
• Lead a team of experience designers delivering high-priority Personal Insurance initiatives that measurably improve customer, agent, and employee experience.
• Set performance goals, provide ongoing feedback, and conduct standard performance reviews for those you manage.
• Serve as a member of the Enterprise XD Council, representing Personal Insurance and helping set direction for the XD discipline across Travelers.
• Define and champion the future state of Personal Insurance Experience Design in partnership with the Enterprise XD Council, including a capability roadmap and talent development strategy.
• Partner with the Enterprise XD Council to shape and adopt new tools, skills, and ways of working within Personal Insurance, piloting new approaches as AI changes how experiences are researched, designed, and delivered and bringing learnings back to inform enterprise direction.
• Establish engagement models that align XD across PI’s Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC+) initiatives, accelerating delivery and improving business outcomes while strengthening XD’s strategic influence.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Experience in a related field, such as HCI, VCD, Service Design, Anthropology, etc.
• Fifteen years of related experience.
• Eight years of leadership experience (formal management or other).
• Advanced knowledge of most areas, expert level knowledge and application of four or more, and the ability to teach others at an advanced level:
• 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

What is a Must Have?

• Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in work experience.
• Twelve years of related experience.
• Five years managing others.

About Us

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