Manager Customer Experience Design & Strategy

Optimum

• $102K — $168K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-8 years in customer experience or journey management, ideally in telecommunications or high-volume service sectors.
  • Demonstrated success in leading journey redesigns and managing complex projects in matrixed environments.
  • Strong skills in analytics, communication, and stakeholder management, with a knack for building business cases and influencing decision-makers.
  • Knowledge of CRM, order management, and relevant methodologies like Voice of Customer is preferred.
  • Familiarity with project delivery and process improvement tools, backed by certifications such as PMP or Lean Six Sigma.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain comprehensive customer journey maps and service blueprints.
  • Analyze performance metrics to identify and prioritize journey pain points.
  • Lead redesign efforts to streamline experiences and enhance digital adoption.
  • Manage delivery plans, coordinating the scope, milestones, and risks effectively.
  • Provide executive-level reporting on project progress and performance outcomes.
  • Translate customer experience strategies into actionable roadmaps for improvement.
  • Support the implementation of digital solutions, automation, and AI capabilities.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth and development in a leading organization.
  • A collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Involvement in innovative projects utilizing digital and AI technologies.
  • Access to advanced tools and resources for customer experience improvement.
  • Engagement in a company culture that values customer-centric strategies.
Full Job Description
Job Summary

The Manager, Customer Experience & Digital Self-Service Strategy is the hands-on delivery engine behind the enterprise's priority customer journeys. Reporting to the Senior Director, the role owns the full arc of journey work: mapping how customers actually move across IVR, chat, app, web, retail, care and field today; diagnosing where effort, repeat contacts and cost accumulate; redesigning the target journey; and then applying the project management discipline that gets the redesign built, launched and sustained.

It is a translator role at heart - turning customer evidence into a defensible journey redesign, and that redesign into the plans, requirements, dependencies and dates that Product, Technology, Operations and Data teams can execute against. Customer experience and digital outcomes are primary; the same work also drives cost-to-serve reduction and frontline productivity through journey simplification, channel shift, automation enablement and disciplined performance routines.

Accountability

Deliver simplified, high-performing customer journeys and omni-channel experiences by mapping and redesigning assigned priority journeys, then leading the cross-functional workstreams that implement them - improving adoption, resolution and customer experience while reducing cost-to-serve and lifting frontline productivity through digital, automation and AI.

Responsibilities

Journey Mapping, Diagnosis & Redesign
  • Develop and maintain customer journey maps and service blueprints, documenting customer interactions, processes, systems, and ownership.
  • Analyze journey performance using operational and customer metrics to identify, prioritize, and resolve pain points.
  • Lead journey redesign efforts to simplify experiences, reduce handoffs, increase digital adoption, and implement proactive solutions.

Project & Delivery Management
  • Manage end-to-end delivery plans, including scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and go-live readiness.
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams and vendors, proactively addressing issues and escalating risks with recommended actions.
  • Provide clear executive reporting on progress, decisions, benefits, and delivery performance.

Strategy Execution & Roadmap Management
  • Translate CX and digital strategy into prioritized journey, channel, and improvement roadmaps.
  • Support business case development, benefit sizing, and investment prioritization for customer experience initiatives.
  • Track delivery outcomes and benefit realization to ensure strategic objectives are achieved.

Requirements, Digital & AI Enablement
  • Convert journey improvements into business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
  • Support implementation of digital, self-service, automation, and AI-enabled customer solutions.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies through pilots, success metrics, and scale-or-stop recommendations.

Performance Management & Governance
  • Build and maintain journey dashboards, scorecards, and performance reporting.
  • Lead governance forums, performance reviews, and continuous improvement routines across stakeholders.
  • Partner with Voice of Customer and Insights teams to identify root causes, prioritize actions, and sustain improvements.


Qualifications

  • 5-8 years of experience in customer experience, journey management, service design, digital transformation, operations strategy, or related fields, preferably in telecommunications or other high-volume service industries.
  • Proven success leading end-to-end journey redesigns and delivering complex projects/programs in cross-functional, matrixed environments.
  • Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build business cases, leverage data for decision-making, and influence audiences from working teams to senior executives.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with telecommunications customer journeys and implementing digital, self-service, AI, or automation capabilities in customer care environments.
  • Knowledge of CRM, order management, OSS/BSS, ticketing systems, network data, and Voice of Customer methodologies.
  • Familiarity with project delivery, process improvement, analytics, and journey mapping tools, supported by relevant certifications (e.g., PMP, Lean Six Sigma, CSM, SAFe, Service Design).

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