Experience Strategy & Discovery Manager

Vanguard; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking an Experience Manager to shape and optimise the client experience across strategic initiatives. You will join a discovery pod, map journeys, and translate insights into design principles and value hypotheses. The role collaborates with Experience Leads and Product Managers to drive change from strategy to delivery.

Hybrid position requiring office presence three days a week. Strong analytics, stakeholder management, and financial services experience are key.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in journey mapping, service design, CX analysis, business analysis, or product design.
• Strategic thinker with background in human-centred design and experience/product strategy.
• Strong analytical skills, including interpreting performance metrics, behavioural data, and client research insights.
• Proficiency with journey mapping and design tools (e.g., Figma, Adobe tools).

Responsibilities

• Accountable for defining the strategic design of client experiences in early stage discovery for strategic change initiatives.
• Work as part of a discovery Pod to produce key discovery artefacts (e.g., design principles, needs statements, value hypotheses, low‑fidelity experience prototypes) to visualise potential solutions and align stakeholders.
• Partner with Experience Leads and Product Managers to support the transition from strategic design into detailed design and delivery teams.
• Support Experience Leads in defining strategic vision for the Client Experience across the platform journeys.
• Establish measurement approaches for assessing change impacts to ongoing journey health; building KPI baselines and qualitative/quantitative insight loops to prove the value delivery for strategic change initiatives
• Support Experience Leads by identifying key moments of truth, regulatory hotspots, and opportunities to improve or simplify the client experience
• Ensure consistency with journey management frameworks and CX vision across all client journeys

Skills

Journey mapping

Service design

CX analysis

Business analysis

Product design

Stakeholder management

Tools

Figma

Adobe tools

Job description

Vanguard is seeking an Experience Manager to shape and optimise the client experience across strategic initiatives. You will join a discovery pod, map journeys, and translate insights into design principles and value hypotheses. The role collaborates with Experience Leads and Product Managers to drive change from strategy to delivery.

Hybrid position requiring office presence three days a week. Strong analytics, stakeholder management, and financial services experience are key.