Customer Optimization Strategist (Multiple levels)

Us Bank; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

401(k) and employer-funded retirement

Paid vacation

Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

Adoption assistance

Sick leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking Senior Experience Designers to drive human-centered design across digital and service touchpoints. You will collaborate with product managers, engineers, and agilists to shape roadmaps, translate needs into end-to-end experiences, and validate designs through testing. This role focuses on strategy, research, insights, and solution development across the customer journey.

Hybrid work in Minneapolis with strong emphasis on cross-functional impact and measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• User experience design experience.
• Expertise on design systems, personas, story maps, and product charters.
• Experience mentoring peers and leading complex workstreams in multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Plan, create, and present design ideas influencing product roadmaps.
• Translate needs into end-to-end customer and employee experiences across channels.
• Design omni-channel experiences that improve customer satisfaction and product adoption.
• Deliver experiences validated through testing and optimization.

Skills

User experience design

Collaboration

Design thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Facilitation

Job description

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

The successful candidate will be hired for the level of the position that aligns with their experience.

Experience Designers at U.S. Bank are customer obsessed in developing human-centered experiences that provide personalized, clear, helpful, and inclusive digital plus human solutions for our customers. Experience designers consider the why, what, and how of product use to help identify where user needs intersect with business goals across the entire user journey.

As an Experience Designer, you will:

• Leverage human-centered design methods (design-thinking, service design, research/insights etc.) to plan, create, and present persuasive, engaging, and strategic ideas that influence product roadmaps and demonstrate a solution's potential for success.
• Performs competitive analysis of direct/indirect competitors and monitors the marketplace for new trends to inform the research and design process.
• Translate business, contractual, technical, and user needs into end-to-end customer, employee, and 3rd-party experiences that are accessible, inclusive, and compliant.
• Designs omni-channel experiences that help customers meet their goals, are empathetic and easy to use, improve customer satisfaction, and drive deeper product adoption.
• Deliver experiences that have been validated through experimentation, testing and optimization.
• Conduct design within an agile environment and champion the integration of design across the entire release cycle (discover, deliver, and assess).
• Conform with reusability standards by leveraging and/or expanding the Design System and established platform capabilities.
• Manages across Enterprise users to define and deliver product performance goals (e.g., outcomes, customer experience, etc.).
• Collaborate with design peers and key stakeholders (Marketing, Brand, CX, etc.) to ensure artifacts and deliverables accurately represent and align to the U.S. Bank brand, and create interconnectivity across customer, client, and employee touchpoints for all business segments

Basic Qualifications

• User experience design experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Expertise on the critical interdependencies among product model system elements that help and hinder performance; ability to plan and design solutions that synchronize resources to achieve business results using business metrics, key performance indicators design systems, service blueprints, and reusability --Demonstrates deep understanding of target customer through internal/external research (e.g., creation of personas, story maps, product chartering/mapping experience)
• Strong collaboration with product managers, software engineers, and agilists to execute product vision and roadmap
• Facilitation of cross-functional human-centered design sessions to build empathy for users, create alignment on customer pain-points, and to identify continuous improvements for the product roadmap
• Preferred skills: design-thinking, user-centered design, product strategy, vision and planning, product development, channel alignment and management, customer experience research, insight and execution, performance measurement and optimization, marketing and analytics

About the Team

The Customer Experience Design team is a newly established function within PCS focused on improving experiences across the credit card customer lifecycle. Acting as internal consultants, Experience Designers identify customer problems, gather and analyze research and operational data, facilitate cross-functional collaboration, and develop recommendations that inform business investment and prioritization decisions. The team combines customer insights, analytics, and design thinking to uncover customer needs, evaluate opportunities, and create future-state experience solutions that improve customer outcomes.

This role is focused on customer experience strategy, research, insights, and solution development across the end-to-end customer journey and is not primarily a visual or interface design position.

Senior Experience Designers

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Experience applying advanced quantitative and analytical methods to identify customer experience drivers, prioritize opportunities, and inform strategic business recommendations.
• Experience mentoring peers, leading complex workstreams, and serving as a player-coach within a multidisciplinary team.

Location Expectations

This role is hybrid. Team members who are in a hybrid role typically spend three days a week at the listed U.S. Bank location(s), while having flexibility on their work location for the other working days.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

• Basic term and optional term life insurance

• Short-term and long-term disability

• Pregnancy disability and parental leave

• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

• Adoption assistance

• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $119,765.00 - $140,900.00

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.