Manager, Customer Journey & Experience Design

Allshores; Halifax; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Allshores is seeking a Manager, User Experience to lead the development of meaningful, seamless experiences for customers, brokers, partners, and employees. You will turn research and insights into measurable improvements, inspiring collaboration across teams and building a best-in-class journey management practice.

You will map major journeys across the insurance life cycle, enrich maps with needs and pain points, and lead research through interviews, workshops, and usability testing.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in customer experience and journey management.
• Experience in leading cross-functional teams.
• Portfolio with journey maps and personas.
• Experience with accessibility and usability.
• Insurance or financial services knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise journey management strategy, roadmap, and governance.
• Map end-to-end journeys across insurance life cycle.
• Enrich maps with needs, touchpoints, emotions, pain points, data and metrics.
• Lead research through interviews, workshops, usability testing.
• Develop journey maps, service blueprints, personas, and experience standards.
• Maintain central journey repository using Miro.
• Translate insights into prioritized business improvements with measurable outcomes.
• Partner with CX systems and business owners to prioritise improvements.
• Lead cross-functional stakeholder engagement and adoption of improvements.
• Coach and develop direct reports and manage external partners.
• Support growth of Customer Journey and Experience Design function.

Skills

Customer experience

Journey management

Service design

User research

Process improvement

Design thinking

Business transformation

Tools

Miro

Job description

Allshores is seeking a passionate Manager, User Experience to lead the way in creating meaningful, seamless experiences for our customers, brokers, partners, and employees. If you are excited by the opportunity to turn research and insights into measurable improvements, inspire collaboration across teams, and build a best-in-class journey management practice, this is your chance to make a lasting impact across our organization.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Support the development and lead an enterprise journey management and experience design strategy, roadmap, methodology, and governance model.
• Map major end-to-end journeys across the insurance life cycle and additional journeys identified as the business is understood in greater depth.
• Review existing maps and progressively enrich them with needs, goals, touchpoints, emotions, pain points, communications, processes, systems, dependencies, owners, data, metrics, and opportunities.
• Lead customer, broker, partner, and employee research through interviews, workshops, observation, usability testing, and other appropriate methods.
• Develop customer journey maps, service blueprints, research-based personas, experience principles, and practical design standards.
• Assess websites, portals, forms, communications, services, and other experiences, incorporating usability and accessibility considerations.
• Maintain a central journey repository; use Miro effectively and recommend additional tools or capabilities where they add value.
• Accountable for ensuring journey insights are translated into prioritized business improvements, with measurable outcomes related to customer satisfaction, effort reduction, operational efficiency or other agreed success metrics
• Partner with Customer Insights, CX Systems, and business owners to prioritize improvements, support implementation, and track outcomes.
• Lead cross-functional stakeholder engagement and support adoption of customer experience improvements and ensure accountability for agreed actions
• Lead, coach, and develop direct reports; manage external research or design partners when needed.
• Support the growth and maturity of the Customer Journey and Experience Design function through the implementation of best practices, capability development, and leadership of the team

Skills, Experience & Attributes:

• Five or more years of relevant experience in customer experience, journey management, service design, user research, process improvement, design thinking, or business transformation.
• Demonstrated management experience, including coaching team members and leading cross-functional work.
• Hands-on experience creating journey maps, service blueprints, personas, research plans, and actionable experience recommendations.
• Strong facilitation, interviewing, synthesis, storytelling, stakeholder management, and change leadership skills.
• Ability to connect qualitative research with operational data, survey results, business processes, systems, and performance measures.
• Experience with Miro or comparable journey-mapping and collaboration tools.
• Digital UX, usability testing, accessibility, or process improvement experience.
• A portfolio or detailed examples demonstrating methods, contribution, and measurable outcomes.
• Insurance or financial services experience.