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About the Role
This role serves as a strategic thought-leader and hands-on employee experience architect, translating the company's employee value proposition into practical, scalable experiences that deliver a distinctive employee experience.
Responsibilities
- Works closely with key stakeholders to understand critical employee interactions and journeys, designs and executes cross-functional solutions to enable the desired employee experience, and embeds experience insights into the way work gets done.
- Responsible for designing and advancing employee experience strategies, solutions, practices and insights activation that addresses priority employee and business needs.
- Provides human-centered design, journey mapping, facilitation and consultation to move stakeholders from understanding the current experience to designing and activating EX data insights shaped solutions.
- Partners closely with People Function COEs, BHR and HR Solutions to influence priorities.
- Develops a deep understanding of employee needs, experience patterns, and data and insights to influence and shape People Function solutions.
- Regularly brings together teams and key stakeholders across the enterprise to build shared understanding, gather input, create alignment, promote integration and drive end-to-end collaborative design and implementation.
- Uses data and insights to identify priorities, inform decisions, shape solutions and recommend action, influencing stakeholders including at People Function XLT level.
- Develops repeatable approaches, frameworks, tools and practices to deploy and embed employee experience data insights across the enterprise, enabling leaders, People teams and experience owners to act consistently at scale.
- Leverages data, research, and insights to design and build integrated employee experiences across key employee experience moments, processes, tools and people practices, reducing friction and strengthening employee connection, community and organizational performance.
- Leads employee experience efforts from problem framing and solution design through activation, measurement and refinement, working through and alongside the teams accountable for solution design.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in related field with minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.
- Demonstrated experience using employee insight, human-centered design and systems thinking to shape and activate employee experience solutions.
- Ability to work across the enterprise (home office and field) to educate and inspire collective action at all levels.
- Ability to negotiate, influence, and build credibility and strong partnerships in a matrixed organization across business functions and levels.
- Excellent storyteller, including written, verbal, and presentation skills.
- Strong systems thinking and influencing skills.
- Comfort with ambiguity and proven ability to perform in "start-up" mode.
- Proven ability to lead multiple complex, cross-functional experience initiatives from discovery and design through activation, measurement and improvement.
- Skilled in operating at both strategic and tactical levels.
- Ability to translate complex or ambiguous experience challenges into clear problem statements, design choices, practical solutions and activation paths.
- Experience developing scalable frameworks, tools, practices or approaches that enable others to deliver improved employee experiences.
- Comfortable flexing as priorities and work changes.
Skills
- Business Influence
- Collaborative Partnership & Planning
- Stakeholder Relationship
- Strategic & Systems Thinking
- Technical & Digital Acumen
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 10 years of relevant experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in related field
Salary/Compensations
- $124,400.00 - $186,600.00
- $118,960.00 USD - $178,440.00 USD
About the Company
- Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do.
Equal Opportunity
- Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes talented individuals of all backgrounds.
- We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.