Experience Design & Research Analyst

Prudential Financial; Letterkenny; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

Prudential Financial is seeking an Analyst of Experience Design & Research to drive insights into actionable strategies, shaping end-to-end journeys grounded in customer insight and design.

You will partner with capabilities across the organization to reimagine value streams and deliver measurable impact through research-led design, with a focus on enterprise-level processes and stakeholder alignment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Expertise in customer journey mapping, experience design, and UX research methodologies.
• Experience translating qualitative and quantitative research into actionable insights.
• Experience in customer-centric, digital-first environments.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives across dynamic environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and map detailed journeys across touchpoints to visualize user experience.
• Translate insights into actionable experience strategies and roadmaps.
• Shape future-state customer journey roadmaps with business, tech, and process leaders.
• Support workshops and stakeholder engagements to drive value-led decisions.
• Ensure research outputs are actionable and integrated into design efforts.

Skills

Customer journey mapping

Experience design

UX research methodologies

Qualitative & quantitative research

Cross-functional collaboration

Storytelling & communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Do you hold yourself to a higher standard? Do you believe everything can be better? Prudential takes great pride in our culture where excellence is core to our DNA! We are building something bold with an internal consulting engine that reimagines how work flows, how people engage, and how value is delivered. When you join our organization at Prudential, you’ll unlock an exciting and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions.

Reporting to the Director of Experience Design & Research, the Analyst of Experience Design & Research will be a main contributor on a team responsible for designing future state ambition that delivers impactful continuous improvement outcomes, shaping end-to-end journeys across key personas, grounded in deep customer insight, research, and experience design. You will partner with other capabilities across the organization and business stakeholders to fully reimagine value streams for quantifiable impact.

If you have a passion to drive insights to action and influence core operating model discipline at an enterprise level, then this is the role for you.

Who you are

• A critical thinker; You always ask “why?” and wonder how things can be improved.


• A best- in- class collaborator; You strive to create alignment in meetings and working sessions with team members and stakeholders.


• A strategic storyteller; You know the value of storytelling and how critical it can be in transforming businesses.


• A dependable voice; You always raise your hand and share you point of view.


• An agent of change; You know the only constant is change and know how to navigate ambiguity and prioritize adaptability while working with speed.

What you will Do

Research & Strategy

• Develop detailed journey maps to visualize and understand the user’s experience across different touchpoints. Partner with business stakeholders to optimize future state journey.


• Translate external research, customer insights, market trends, and data into clear design implications and strategic recommendations.


• Shape and evolve future-state customer journey roadmaps in partnership with business, technology, and process leaders.


• Support in translating insights into actionable experience strategies, initiatives, and roadmaps that can be delivered through cross-functional teams.


• Ensure delivery of execution-ready journey designs that reflect customer needs, process efficiency, and value-stream priorities.


• Ensure research outputs are actionable, timely, and integrated into journey and process redesign efforts.

Facilitation & Collaboration

• Co-design and support the execution of high impact process reimagination workshops and stakeholder engagements


• Support workshops and interactive discussion sessions with business and technology partners.


• Collaborate with stakeholders to integrate customer-centric decision-making, inform prioritization, and develop experience-led metrics to align business goals

Strategic Storytelling & Communication

• Support team leaders in translating complicated systems and business problems into digestible, high impact communications and presentations to help stakeholders make decisions efficiently.


• Champion human-centered design practices for the voice of the customer across enterprise initiatives.

Expertise & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree required.


• Expertise in customer journey mapping, experience design, and UX research methodologies.


• Experience translating qualitative and quantitative research into actionable insights.


• Experience in customer-centric, digital-first environments.


• Comfortable working cross-functionally, with a track record of building strong partnerships.


• Ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously acrossdynamic business environments.


• Strong communication and synthesis skills to translate process issues into north star opportunity narratives that resonate with stakeholders across all levels, ensuring clarity and accountability.


• Strong problem-solving skills rooted in value adding opportunities, with the ability to identify root cause of issues and true underlying needs.

Preferred qualifications:

• Consulting experience a plus


• Industry-specific process knowledge relevant to our business sector

PGIM Ireland is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of applicants’ gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race or membership of the traveler community. PGIM Ireland’s aim is to hire the best people for the open roles and all appointments will be made on merit. Any offer of employment made by PGIM Ireland will be contingent on receiving satisfactory references. Applicants should be aware that background checks will be carried out on all candidates offered a position within PGIM Ireland.