Digital Employee Experience Senior Engineer, IT Client Services

Cardinal Health; Frankfort (KY); On-site; USD 88,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Cardinal Health is seeking a DEX Product Owner to lead the Digital Employee Experience transformation. You will own the DEX roadmap, drive value realization, and partner with IT and business teams to reduce friction, modernize service delivery, and optimize technology spend.

You will oversee analytics, experience campaigns, and governance, translating insights into prioritized actions that boost productivity and improve employee experiences enterprise-wide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field is preferred.
• 7+ years of experience in Product Management, Digital Employee Experience, End User Computing, IT Service Management, or Digital Transformation.
• 3+ years leading enterprise-wide programs spanning multiple technology and business functions.
• Experience translating objectives into technical requirements and measurable outcomes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for senior leadership audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the DEX roadmap, backlog, and governance aligned to transformation objectives.
• Lead adoption of AI-enabled solutions and proactive support models.
• Serve as the business owner for DEX platform capabilities.
• Lead a team of analysts and experience specialists monitoring telemetry and sentiment.
• Translate insights into remediation initiatives for multiple IT and business teams.
• Manage backlogs, requirements, and governance for DEX-driven fixes.
• Coordinate change controls, release management, testing strategies, and deployments.
• Validate remediation activities through change management processes.
• Develop comms and adoption campaigns for endpoint updates and OS changes.
• Create and socialize employee-facing communications about DEX improvements.
• Drive digital campaigns to educate, gather feedback, and improve productivity.
• Establish closed-loop processes turning insights into actions and future roadmaps.
• Define and report KPIs on productivity, experience scores, and optimization.

Skills

Product Management

Digital Employee Experience

End User Computing

IT Service Management

Digital Transformation

Influence without authority

Requirements translation

Stakeholder alignment

Communication skills

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field

Tools

ServiceNow management

MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)

Job description

US-Nationwide-FIELD

Full time

20185028

What IT Client Services contributes to Cardinal Health

Information Technology oversees the effective development, delivery, and operation of computing and information services. This function anticipates, plans, and delivers Information Technology solutions and strategies that enable operations and drive business value.

IT Client Services provides Tier 1-3 virtual and physical support to the organization’s end users for software, hardware, digital employee experience management, conference room technology and meeting support, warehouse technology, server, network, and enterprise systems issues. Frequently responding to escalated issues from the IT Service Center, this group resolves user requests through discussions with users and coordination with internal and external resources and provides education and trainings to users to facilitate knowledge transfer and prevent problem reoccurrence. IT Client Services also maintains ownership for certain end user productivity platforms and capabilities, such as virtual environments and collaboration toolsets, and addresses service outages. This area acquires, installs and upgrades PC components and software, while also performing asset management for software and hardware.

Digital Employee Experience (DEX) Product Owner Role Summary

The Digital Employee Experience (DEX) Product Owner is responsible for leading the execution and value realization of Cardinal Health’s Digital Employee Experience transformation roadmap. This role will serve as the business owner and strategic leader for a multi-year DEX program focused on improving employee productivity, reducing digital friction, modernizing IT service delivery, and enabling proactive employee experiences through data, automation, AI, and journey-based design.

The Digital Employee Experience (DEX) product owner role is responsible for ensuring Cardinal Health realizes the full value of its DEX tool investment. This product owner role is responsible for converting telemetry, sentiment, and operational insights into measurable business outcomes including improved employee productivity, lower support costs, optimized technology spending (i.e. tech refresh), and enhanced employee experiences.

The DEX Product Owner will function as both a strategic transformation leader and a traditional technical Product Owner, overseeing a team responsible for DEX analytics, experience campaigns, and value realization while managing the product backlog, change controls, and release governance with Client Engineering and support teams. This role will ensure DEX insights are translated into tested and approved remediation actions, coordinate the deployment of endpoint improvements through established change management processes, and lead the development and socialization of employee communications and targeted experience campaigns that drive adoption, awareness, and continuous improvement of the digital workplace experience.

Responsibilities:

• Own and lead the Digital Employee Experience (DEX) roadmap, backlog, and governance processes, ensuring alignment to the organization’s three-year transformation objectives and value realization targets.

• Work with business and IT partners to drive the adoption of AI-enabled solutions, self-healing automation, and proactive support models.

• Serve as the primary business owner for DEX platform capabilities.

• Lead a dedicated team of DEX analysts and experience specialists responsible for monitoring endpoint telemetry, employee sentiment, and digital experience data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for proactive improvement.

• Translate DEX insights into prioritized remediation initiatives and actionable workstreams for Client Engineering, End User Computing, Service Desk, Infrastructure, IT Solution Owner application support teams, IT Asset Management, and other operational support teams.

• Serve as the technical Product Owner for DEX-driven enhancements by managing product backlogs, defining requirements, prioritizing fixes, and ensuring solutions align to business priorities and employee experience outcomes.

• Partner with Client Engineering and technology teams to govern change controls, release management activities, testing strategies, and production deployments associated with DEX-recommended fixes and enhancements.

• Ensure all DEX-driven remediation activities are thoroughly validated, tested, and approved through established change management and governance processes before deployment to the enterprise.

• Develop and execute communication, adoption, and change management strategies for major endpoint updates, operating system changes, application enhancements, and proactive remediation campaigns that impact the employee experience.

• Lead the creation and socialization of employee-facing communications that clearly articulate upcoming changes, expected benefits, business impacts, and recommended actions associated with DEX-driven improvements.

• Drive targeted digital experience campaigns that educate employees, improve technology adoption, gather feedback, and continuously enhance employee productivity and satisfaction.

• Establish closed-loop processes to ensure DEX insights are converted into actions, actions are measured for effectiveness, and outcomes are continuously incorporated into future prioritization and roadmap decisions.

• Define, monitor, and report key performance indicators related to employee productivity, digital experience scores, service desk demand reduction, automation effectiveness, device performance, and technology investment optimization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, preferred.

• 7+ years of experience in Product Management, Digital Employee Experience, End User Computing, IT Service Management, Employee Experience, Technology Operations, or Digital Transformation, preferred.

• 3+ years of experience leading enterprise-wide programs or products that span multiple technology and business functions, preferred.

• Demonstrated experience developing and executing strategic roadmaps, product backlogs, and multi-year transformation initiatives, preferred.

• Proven ability to lead large-scale initiatives through influence, collaboration, and stakeholder alignment without direct authority, preferred.

• Experience translating business objectives into technical requirements, operational execution plans, and measurable outcomes, preferred.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present recommendations, roadmaps, and outcomes to senior leadership, and to work with the communications team to execute end user DEX communication campaigns, preferred.

• Strong understanding of critical endpoint management performance metrics, and enterprise end user computing environments, preferred

• Experience with ServiceNow management and workflow automations, preferred

• Strong knowledge of MS Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook), preferred

• Ability to travel at least 10-15% of time, if necessary

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Ability to analyze complex datasets and present insights into a consumable format

• Applies advanced knowledge and understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to manage a wide variety of projects

• Participates in the development of policies and procedures

• Works on or may lead complex projects of large scope

• Projects may have significant and long-term impact

• Provides solutions which may set precedent

• Acts as a mentor to less experienced colleagues

Anticipated salary range:

$87,700.00 - $137,830.00

Bonus eligible:

Yes

Benefits:

Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.

• Medical, dental and vision coverage

• Paid time off plan

• Health savings account (HSA)

• 401k savings plan

• Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay

• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)

• Short- and long-term disability coverage

• Work-Life resources

• Paid parental leave

• Healthy lifestyle programs

Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.

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