Experience Lead

State Farm; Bloomington (IL); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Annual raise & bonus

Health benefits

Tuition assistance

Retirement plan

Generous time off

Job summary

State Farm is seeking an Experience Lead to shape new products, services, and capabilities within its Innovation Design team. You will guide engagements from Intake and Discovery through proof of concept, Pilot, and Transition, partnering with Product Managers, Enterprise Research, Technology, and Design practitioners to align customer needs with business goals.

You’ll provide strategic direction early in the lifecycle, validating problems and assumptions, and ensuring experiences meet

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Experience Design, Product Design, UX Strategy, or related fields.

Responsibilities

• Lead Experience Design across multiple innovation initiatives from intake to transition.
• Clarify opportunities with product, tech, and business partners to define value and evidence.
• Lead discovery using research, facilitation, and prototyping to test desirability, viability, feasibility.
• Translate insights into clear strategies, hypotheses, and success measures for experimentation.
• Provide strategic and creative direction while teams handle detailed design and execution.
• Evaluate results and recommend next steps for advancing or pivoting initiatives.
• Champion customer-centered, evidence-based decisions and design standards across portfolio.

Skills

Experience Design

Product Design

UX Strategy

Service Design

Design Research

Design Thinking

Prototyping

Figma

FigJam

Accessibility

Design Systems

Stakeholder Leadership

Tools

Visual Studio Code

OpenAI Codex

Claude Code

Job description

Overview

Being good neighbors – helping people, investing in our communities, and making the world a better place – is who we are at State Farm. It is at the core of how we operate and the reason for our success. We're moving with urgency to become a Next Gen Good Neighbor, with technology that strengthens human connections and enhances the customer experience. As an employee, you'll spend less time navigating systems and more time applying judgment, empathy, and expertise in the moments that matter most.

Location

Bloomington, IL; Dunwoody, GA; Richardson, TX; Tempe, AZ

Hybrid Work arrangement

A "Hybrid" position means selected candidates will be assigned to a facility and will spend some time working both in office and from their home.

SPONSORSHIP

Applicants for this position are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (e.g. H-1B visa) for this opportunity.

Grow Your Skills, Grow Your Potential

Are you passionate about shaping the future of customer and employee experiences at State Farm? Do you enjoy turning complex and ambiguous opportunities into clear, validated product direction? Are you curious about how emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence and agentic experiences, can improve how people work and interact with State Farm?

Experience Lead

The Innovation Experience Design team is seeking an Experience Lead to shape new products, services, capabilities, and ways of working across the Innovation lifecycle. In this role, you will lead Experience Design engagements from Intake and Discovery through proof of concept, Pilot, and Transition. Your strongest ownership will occur early in the lifecycle, where you will help teams define the right problem, identify and validate critical assumptions, understand customer and employee needs, and establish a clear experience strategy before significant investment is made. You will partner with Group Product Managers, Product Owners, business partners, Enterprise Research, Technology, and Experience Design practitioners to connect user needs, business outcomes, and technical possibilities. As initiatives move into experimentation and delivery, you will continue to provide strategic and creative direction so the work remains grounded in validated insights, the intended experience, and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead Experience Design across multiple innovation initiatives, providing strategic continuity from Intake and Discovery through proof of concept, Pilot, and Transition
• Partner with Product, Technology, Enterprise Research, business partners, and Experience Design practitioners to clarify opportunities, define problems, align on intended value, and identify the assumptions and evidence needed to move forward
• Lead Discovery by combining research, data, facilitation, service design, concept development, and prototyping to evaluate customer desirability, business viability, technical feasibility, and strategic alignment
• Translate insights into clear experience strategies, priority use cases, hypotheses, success measures, decision ready artifacts, and recommendations for experimentation
• Provide strategic and creative direction as practitioners move concepts into detailed design, testing, and delivery, ensuring the validated problem, experience intent, and intended outcomes remain connected to execution
• Evaluate research and experiment results, communicate recommendations to teams and leaders, and help determine whether initiatives should advance, change direction, require further validation, pause, or exit
• Champion customer centered and evidence based decision making while advancing Experience Design standards, tools, accessibility, design systems, and practitioner development across the Innovation portfolio

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of applicable experience in Experience Design, Product Design, UX Strategy, Service Design, Design Research, or a related discipline
• Demonstrated experience leading ambiguous Discovery efforts and shaping new products, services, or capabilities from problem definition through validated experience strategy
• Strong knowledge of human centered design, product discovery, service design, research, prototyping, Design Thinking, and iterative experimentation
• Experience synthesizing research, analytics, business context, and technical information into hypotheses, experience strategies, success measures, and actionable recommendations
• Strong facilitation, storytelling, and stakeholder leadership skills, with the ability to influence decisions across Product, Technology, Research, Design, business partners, governance groups, and senior leaders
• Ability to provide strategic and creative direction while enabling practitioners to maintain ownership of detailed design and execution across multiple concurrent initiatives
• Proficiency in Figma, FigJam, prototyping, and presentation tools, with working knowledge of accessibility, content strategy, interaction design, information architecture, service design, visual design, and established design systems
• A portfolio demonstrating strategic thinking, problem framing, research synthesis, concept development, stakeholder influence, experimentation, and measurable customer or business outcomes

Preferred experience

• Experience working in innovation, incubation, emerging technology, new product development, or enterprise experimentation
• Current or previous Experience Lead experience, or senior Product Experience Designer experience with demonstrated readiness to lead complex engagements
• Practical experience applying artificial intelligence across product, design, research, or operational workflows to improve quality, efficiency, learning, decision making, or customer and employee experiences
• Experience designing, building, configuring, or evaluating artificial intelligence agents and agentic workflows, including capabilities, instructions, data requirements, testing, evaluation criteria, and human oversight
• Familiarity with Visual Studio Code, OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, or comparable development and agentic coding tools, including their use for prototyping, research synthesis, artifact creation, and workflow automation
• Experience partnering with Product and Technology on artificial intelligence functionality, integrations, responsible use, and both no code and coded proof of concept activities
• Experience operating within a large and complex enterprise, with State Farm Product Design or Experience Design experience preferred

Items of note

• This role may support multiple innovation initiatives across different stages of the lifecycle
• A portfolio review will be required for candidates who advance to the interview phase
• The portfolio should demonstrate the candidate’s individual contribution, strategic point of view, problem framing, research and synthesis, concept development, facilitation, stakeholder influence, experimentation approach, and connection to measurable customer or business outcomes

Our Benefits

Because work-life balance is a priority at State Farm, compensation is based on our standard 38:45-hour work week!

• Potential starting salary range: $135,000 - $155,000
• Starting salary will be based on skills, background, and experience. High end of the range limited to applicants with significant relevant experience and living in high cost of labor location like CA/NY/NJ/Etc.
• Potential yearly incentive pay up to 10% of base salary

• Get Paid! On top of our competitive pay, you are eligible for an annual raise and bonus.
• Stay Well! Focus on you and your family’s health with our robust health and wellbeing programs. State Farm pays most of your healthcare premium, and we offer multiple healthcare plan options, including a high deductible plan. All medical plans provide 100% coverage for in-network preventative care, AND you and your family have access to vision, dental, telemedicine, 24/7 mental health professionals, and much more!
• Develop and Grow! Take advantage of educational benefits like industry leading training programs, top-notch tuition assistance programs, employee resource groups, and mentoring.
• Plan Ahead! Plan for those big moments in life with benefits like fertility/IVF/adoption assistance, college coaching, national discount programs, interactive monthly financial workshops, free financial coaching, and more. You can also start a savings account or consider financing through our State Farm Federal Credit Union!
• Take a Little “You” Time! You will have access to our generous time off policies designed so you can plan around holidays, family events, volunteering, or just to take a relaxing day off. With the opportunity to initially earn up to 20 days annually plus parental leave, paid holidays, celebration day, life leave (40 hours/year), bereavement leave, and community service/education support days, there will be plenty of time for you!
• Give Back! We offer several ways to give back through our Matching Gift Program, Good Neighbor Grant Program, and the Employee Assistance Fund.
• Finish Strong! Plan for retirement using free financial advisors and a 401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of your salary.

Visit our State Farm Careers page for more information on our benefits, locations, and the hiring process of joining the State Farm team!