AARP

VP, Consumer Experience

AARP • $150K — $180K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Consumer Experience, Human-Centered Design, Communications, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
  • 10+ years of progressive experience in consumer experience (CX), customer experience, journey strategy, or related disciplines, with leadership responsibility for enterprise-wide initiatives.
  • Proven experience leveraging consumer insights and market intelligence to develop strategies that enhance customer engagement and satisfaction.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and leading end-to-end consumer journeys across multiple channels, ensuring seamless integration.
  • Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams and influencing senior executives in a complex environment.
  • Significant experience developing experience frameworks and performance measures to improve organizational effectiveness.
  • Experience translating consumer needs into integrated solutions that deliver measurable value.

Responsibilities

  • Owns the design and definition of end-to-end consumer experiences, aligning strategy with target demographics.
  • Turns consumer trends and adoption signals into actionable recommendations for the enterprise.
  • Builds and maintains strong stakeholder relationships to ensure a seamless consumer experience.
  • Defines the experience architecture that connects marketing efforts to meaningful consumer journeys.
  • Applies established experience frameworks to real business challenges, ensuring strategies are actionable and consistent.
  • Advances the enterprise's customer experience maturity roadmap, guiding phased progress as capabilities strengthen.
  • Ensures experiences are implemented as designed, enhancing consumer experience and driving efficiency.

Benefits

  • 401(k) plan with company contributions.
  • 100% company-funded pension plan.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans.
  • Life insurance coverage.
  • Generous paid time off including holidays, vacation, sick leave, and parental leave.
  • Performance-based and peer-based recognition programs.
  • Tuition reimbursement for continued education.
Full Job Description
Overview

The Vice President of Consumer Experience is responsible for shaping and executing the consumer experience strategy across the enterprise by shifting from fragmented touchpoints to integrated, issue-based journeys grounded in real consumer needs. This role will establish experience standards, ensure simplicity and ease across all interactions, and oversee the development of holistic content experiences that combine editorial, tools, services, and benefits into cohesive solutions. Collaborates with senior leadership to ensure the consumer experience team is developing long-term goals and strategic plans to ensure consumer experience expectations are met and exceeded, positioning the enterprise for success.

Responsibilities

  • Owns the design and definition of end-to-end consumer experiences, ensuring the alignment of the strategy and target market and demographics.
  • Turns consumer trends, patterns and adoption signals into clear recommendations for enterprise consideration and influence.
  • Builds and maintains strong stakeholder relationships to collaborate with various departments to ensure alignment in delivering a seamless consumer experience.
  • Defines the experience architecture that campaigns activate, ensuring all marketing efforts connect to meaningful, actionable consumer journeys.
  • Applies established Experience frameworks, including growth audience strategy, journey design, orchestration, and learning, to real business challenges, ensuring strategies are connected, actionable, and consistently carried through planning, activation, and optimization.
  • Defines and advances the enterprise's customer experience maturity roadmap, guiding phased progress as internal capabilities strengthen and external expectations evolve.
  • Accountable for ensuring experiences are implemented as designed in partnership with other stakeholders across the enterprise to enhance the consumer experience streamline processes and drive efficiency.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Consumer Experience, Human-Centered Design, Communications, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
  • 10+ years of progressive experience in consumer experience (CX), customer experience, journey strategy, experience design, marketing strategy, digital experience, or related disciplines, including leadership responsibility for enterprise-wide initiatives.
  • Proven experience leveraging consumer insights, behavioral data, market intelligence, and customer feedback to develop strategies that improve customer engagement, satisfaction, adoption, and business outcomes.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and leading end-to-end consumer journeys across multiple channels and touchpoints, with responsibility for creating seamless, integrated consumer experiences.
  • Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams and influencing senior executives and stakeholders to drive alignment, establish priorities, and deliver consumer-centered business strategies in a complex matrixed environment.
  • Significant experience developing experience frameworks, governance models, standards, and performance measures that improve organizational effectiveness, consistency, and customer outcomes.
  • Experience translating consumer needs into integrated solutions that combine content, products, services, benefits, and digital experiences, resulting in measurable value for both consumers and the organization.
  • Demonstrated success leading large-scale strategic initiatives from concept through implementation, ensuring intended experience outcomes are achieved while driving continuous improvement through measurement, learning, and optimization.


AARP will not sponsor an employment visa for this position.

Additional Requirements

  • Regular and reliable job attendance
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills
  • Exhibit respect and understanding of others to maintain professional relationships
  • Independent judgement in evaluation options to make sound decisions
  • In office/open office environment with the ability to work effectively surrounded by moderate noise


Hybrid Work Environment

AARP observes Mondays and Fridays as remote workdays, except for essential functions. Remote work can only be done within the United States and its territories.

Compensation and Benefits

AARP offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including a 401(k); 100% company-funded pension plan; health, dental, and vision plans; life insurance; paid time off to include company and individual holidays, vacation, sick, caregiving, and parental leave; performance-based and peer-based recognition and tuition reimbursement.

About AARP

AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that empowers people to choose how they live as they age. The organization was founded in 1958 and has over 38 million members. AARP provides information, advocacy, and services for people over the age of 50. The organization is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and has offices in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Size
2,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1958

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