Experience Designer, Future Experience

Coates Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus program

Flexible work options

Wellness paid day off

Give Back Day

Job summary

Coates Group is seeking a Senior Experience Designer to translate emerging customer needs and technology possibilities into testable concepts across physical, digital and service environments. You’ll connect discovery with experimentation, collaborating with engineering and product teams to guide future investments and opportunities.

The role emphasizes a strong design portfolio, accessibility principles and familiarity with AI-enabled experiences, in a dynamic, globally connected crew.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in experience, interaction, service or product design.
• Strong portfolio covering concept development, journey design, interface design and prototyping.
• Proficiency in Figma and contemporary design and prototyping tools.
• Experience conducting or supporting concept validation and usability testing.
• Understanding of accessibility, inclusive design and design-system principles.
• Experience collaborating with engineering and product teams in ambiguous, early-stage environments.
• Experience with AI-enabled, adaptive or emerging-technology experiences is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Investigate customer, operational and business behaviours through contextual research and stakeholder engagement.
• Map end-to-end experiences across people, processes, environments and technology.
• Synthesize insights into clearly framed opportunity hypotheses and assumptions.
• Design experiments and validation activities with clear learning objectives.
• Translate insights into future-state journeys, service concepts and prototypes.
• Facilitate collaborative discovery and evaluation with internal teams, clients and partners.
• Capture and communicate research findings and recommendations for executives and clients.
• Develop reusable patterns and assets to speed exploration and iteration.

Skills

Experience design

Portfolio development

Cross-functional collaboration

Usability testing

Accessibility & inclusive design

AI-enabled experiences (desirable)

Tools

Figma

Job description

Be Part of Our Next Chapter

For over almost 60 years, our solutions have enabled impactful connections between some of the world’s leading brands and their customers. And while we’ve already done a lot of work we’re proud of, we’re just getting started!

We’re a global technology company focused on creating dynamic, smart, personalised and engaging customer experiences powered by our range of digital hardware, our proprietary content management system and our industry leading signage solutions. (For example: If you’ve ordered in-store or in the drive-thru at McDonald’s somewhere in the world in the last few years, chances are you’ve interacted with our digital solutions.) We work in over 50 global markets and have 9 offices around the world, with a global headquarters proudly located in our founding home of Sydney, Australia.

Coates Group has the values of a family-owned business and the innovative spirit of a start-up, both which fuel our purpose – Creating Connections. Empowering Partnerships. Always Evolving. Through hard work, dedication and creativity, we’ve become industry leaders who have won awards and set records while remaining focused on continual growth and evolution. We are a 2x Australia Good Design Award winner and successfully completed the largest hardware deployment in Quick Service Restaurant history.

We are curious, charismatic, authentic and we value and leverage the diversity of our crew. We are imaginers, kindness enthusiasts, experts, creators, thinkers, challengers, collaborators and over-achievers. And together, as a Crew, we are revolutionizing the way the world’s leading brands leverage technology to drive the best customer experiences.

Working under the Director of Future Experience, this role brings the organisation’s future experience ambition to life by translating emerging customer needs, behavioural shifts and technology possibilities into clear hypotheses and testable concepts. It connects discovery with experimentation across physical, digital and service environments to generate evidence that guides experience direction, product opportunities and future investment decisions.

Key responsibilities for the role

• Investigate customer, operational and business behaviours through contextual research, field observation, interviews and stakeholder engagement to identify unmet needs and emerging opportunities.
• Map end-to-end experiences across people, processes, physical environments and technology to reveal dependencies and opportunities for improvement or transformation.
• Synthesise research, behavioural insights, business signals and emerging trends into clearly framed experience opportunities, hypotheses and assumptions.
• Design experiments and validation activities with clear learning objectives and evaluation criteria.
• Translate insights and hypotheses into future-state journeys, service concepts, interaction models, and interactive prototypes at the appropriate level of fidelity, collaborating with technical and design specialists.
• Facilitate collaborative discovery, ideation and evaluation activities with internal teams, clients and partners to build shared understanding and challenge existing assumptions.
• Capture and communicate research findings, experiment results and future opportunities through clear demonstration narratives, scripts and supporting materials for executive and client stakeholders.
• Develop and leverage reusable patterns, templates and assets to improve the speed and consistency of exploration, prototyping and iteration.

Qualifications and experience

• Demonstrated experience in experience, interaction, service or product design.
• Strong portfolio covering concept development, journey design, interface design and prototyping.
• Proficiency in Figma and contemporary design and prototyping tools.
• Experience conducting or supporting concept validation and usability testing.
• Understanding of accessibility, inclusive design and design-system principles.
• Experience collaborating with engineering and product teams in ambiguous, early-stage environments.
• Experience with AI-enabled, adaptive or emerging-technology experiences is desirable.

About Coates

We are industry leaders who have won awards and set records. We are a 2x Australia Good Design Award winner and we successfully completed the largest hardware deployment in Quick Service Restaurant history.

We are industry leaders who have won awards and set records. We are a 2x Australia Good Design Award winner and we successfully completed the largest hardware deployment in Quick Service Restaurant history.

We are led by a forward-thinking CEO who has demonstrated a true passion for people and making Coates a place where people genuinely enjoy working. Our growth plans enable a focus on providing rapid career advancement opportunities for our talent.

Together, we are creators, allowing us to make our purpose a reality – to create immersive brand experiences for everyone.

Join a Crew that Cares

Be part of a global team of talented, ambitious, creative people that value integrity, individuality and inclusivity. (Ask us about our Equality + Empowerment Initiatives).

The benefits include an annual market competitive bonus program and our "Thrive Program" which includes a suite of flexible work options because we’re strong believers that you should never miss an important life or work moment. Thrive also provides dedicated time to prioritize our health and wellbeing (think virtual Yoga or meditation sessions), a Global Wellness paid day off to recharge as well as a "Give Back Day" to allow our Crew an opportunity to make an impact in the community.

Be inspired To Be More

We skip the red tape and aim to always stay nimble. We're proud of where we've been and are energized by where we're going. We encourage ideas and perspectives because we know the more we have, the better we are. We work hard but have fun along the way. We push the boundaries but keep it real and authentic. We believe in the values that got us here are the ones that will continue to lead us forward. We are excited by what we've accomplished, but know the best is yet to come.

Coates Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, national or ethnic origin, gender, religion, disability, age, political affiliation or belief, disabled veteran, veteran of the Vietnam Era, or citizenship status (except in those special circumstances permitted or mandated by law).