Director, Experience Design & Research | PGIM Ireland

Location: Letterkenny (Hybrid 2-3 days onsite p/week)

Do you hold yourself to a higher standard?  Do you believe everything can be better? Prudential takes great pride in our culture where excellence is core to our DNA! We are building something bold with an internal consulting engine that reimagines how work flows, how people engage, and how value is delivered.  When you join our organization at Prudential, you’ll unlock an exciting and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions. 

Reporting to the Vice President, the Director of Experience Design & Research will lead a team responsible for designing future state ambition that delivers impactful continuous improvement outcomes, shaping end-to-end journeys across key personas, grounded in deep customer insight, research, and experience design.  You will partner with other capabilities across the organization and business stakeholders to fully reimagine value streams for quantifiable impact.  

If you have a passion to drive insights to action and influence core operating model discipline at an enterprise level, then this is the role for you.  

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  Co-design and support the execution of high impact process reimagination workshops and stakeholder engagements 

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  Run & facilitate workshops and interactive discussion sessions with business and technology partners. 

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  Collaborate with stakeholders to integrate customer-centric decision-making, inform prioritization, and develop experience-led metrics to align business goals 

Strategic Storytelling & Communication 

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  Translate complicated systems and business problems into digestible, high impact communications and presentations to help stakeholders make decisions efficiently. 

Leadership & Mentorship 

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  Lead and develop the Journey Design and UX Research capabilities, ensuring strong integration between research insights, experience design, strategic storytelling and enterprise process excellence priorities by providing coaching, feedback and growth opportunities 

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  Guide and mentor researchers, strategists and cross-functional teams working on high priority value streams. 

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  Champion human-centered design practices for the voice of the customer across enterprise initiatives. 

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  Foster collaboration, accountability, and core culture and ways of working. 

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  Bachelor’s degree required. 

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  Expertise in customer journey mapping, experience design, and UX research methodologies. 

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  Experience translating qualitative and quantitative research into actionable insights. 

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  Experience in customer-centric, digital-first environments. 

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  Comfortable working cross-functionally, with a track record of building strong partnerships.  

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  Ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously across dynamic business environments. 

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  Exceptional executive presence and leadership that promotes a high-performance culture. 

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  Strong communication and synthesis skills to translate process issues into north star opportunity narratives that resonate with stakeholders across all levels, ensuring clarity and accountability. 

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  Strong problem-solving skills rooted in value adding opportunities, with the ability to identify root cause of issues and true underlying needs.