Head of Web Experience

Citizens; Westwood (MA); Hybride; USD 164 000 - 200 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Citizens is looking for a Head of Web Experience to lead the public web ecosystem, shaping strategy, governance, and operating models. You will oversee web strategy, digital experience, content management, and production, ensuring useful, measurable, and compliant experiences across journeys and platforms.

This leader partners with Marketing, Technology, Product, Risk, Legal, Compliance, Brand, and Experience Design to balance long-term transformation with day-to-day reliability, including

Qualifications

• 10+ years in digital experience, web strategy, or related field within a large organization.
• 5+ years leading managers, multidisciplinary teams, or large programs.
• Experience setting enterprise web strategy and translating to roadmaps and priorities.
• Strong knowledge of analytics, content governance, and experience optimization.

Responsabilités

• Lead the Web Experience function, including Web Strategy, Digital Experience, and Production.
• Establish vision, priorities, roadmap, and operating model for Citizens' public web ecosystem.
• Define how web experiences are structured, governed, measured, and delivered across journeys.
• Sponsor structured-content and content-architecture initiatives for reuse and scalability.
• Ensure web content is prepared for AI-mediated discovery with clear information structures.
• Establish governance and quality controls for accuracy, accessibility, and compliance.
• Lead tradeoff decisions across customer needs, demand, regulatory requirements, and modernization.
• Partner with Technology on CMS modernization and content-model development.
• Use analytics and performance data to set priorities and report to senior leaders.
• Create ownership, processes, and relationships across delivery teams.

Connaissances

Digital experience

Web strategy

Content governance

Analytics

Leadership

Communication

Outils

CMS platforms

Content modeling

Metadata & taxonomy

Design systems

Description du poste

Description

The Head of Web Experience leads Citizens' public web ecosystem and is accountable for the strategy, governance, operating model, and performance of the bank's customer-facing web experiences.

This role oversees the teams responsible for web strategy, digital experience, content management, and production. The leader ensures that Citizens' web experiences are useful, discoverable, measurable, accessible, compliant, and able to evolve with changing customer behavior and technology.

As discovery expands beyond traditional search into AI-driven experiences and third-party platforms, this leader defines how Citizens delivers information for both people and machines. The role works closely with Marketing, Technology, Product, Risk, Legal, Compliance, Brand, and Experience Design to balance long-term transformation with reliable day-to-day operations.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the Web Experience function, including Web Strategy, Digital Experience, and Production.




• Establish the vision, priorities, roadmap, and operating model for Citizens' public web ecosystem.




• Define how web experiences are structured, governed, measured, delivered, and improved across customer journeys and lines of business.




• Sponsor structured-content and content-architecture initiatives that improve consistency, reuse, scalability, and machine readability.




• Ensure Citizens' web content and experiences are prepared for AI-mediated discovery through clear information structures, consistent content standards, and reliable underlying data.




• Establish governance and quality controls that keep web experiences accurate, accessible, compliant, secure, and aligned with Citizens' brand and design standards.




• Lead prioritization and tradeoff decisions across customer needs, business demand, regulatory requirements, operational work, site health, and modernization efforts.




• Partner with Technology and Engineering on CMS modernization, content-model development, component evolution, dynamic content, and future platform capabilities.




• Use analytics, customer behavior, market changes, and business performance to set priorities and explain web performance to senior leaders.




• Create clear ownership, decision rights, intake processes, and working relationships across the teams involved in delivering web experiences.




• Build and develop leadership talent across the Web Experience organization.




• Represent the public web channel in enterprise planning, transformation programs, and cross-functional leadership discussions.

Required Skills and Experience

• 10 or more years of experience in digital experience, web strategy, content strategy, digital product management, or a related discipline within a large or complex organization.




• Five or more years of experience leading managers, multidisciplinary teams, or large enterprise programs.




• Demonstrated experience setting enterprise web or digital-experience strategy and translating that strategy into priorities, roadmaps, team structures, and measurable work.




• Strong knowledge of web strategy, customer journeys, content governance, digital analytics, experimentation, publishing operations, and experience optimization.




• Experience establishing operating models that connect strategic direction, content structure, experience design, technology, and delivery.




• Experience guiding major change while maintaining the continuity, accuracy, and reliability of an active digital channel.




• Strong judgment when balancing customer needs, business goals, regulatory risk, technical constraints, and operational capacity.




• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and partners across Marketing, Technology, Product, Risk, Legal, Compliance, Brand, and Design.




• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex digital issues clearly to executive audiences.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience developing digital strategies for AI-mediated discovery, LLM visibility, structured content, and machine-readable experiences.




• Familiarity with headless or modern CMS platforms, content modeling, content architecture, metadata, taxonomy, and enterprise design systems.




• Experience leading CMS modernization, content migration, dynamic-content programs, or component-library development.




• Experience redesigning organizations, team responsibilities, governance models, or digital delivery processes.




• Experience with web analytics, search performance, conversion-rate optimization, experimentation programs, and digital measurement.




• Experience working in a regulated or highly controlled environment.




• Financial services or banking experience.

Hours & Work Schedule

• Hours per Week: 40




• Work Schedule: M-F 8-5 4 days in the Westwood MA office 1 day remote.

Pay Transparency

The salary range for this position is $164,000-$200,000 per year, plus an opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus. Actual pay is based on various factors including but not limited to the budget, work location, and relevant skills and experience.

We offer competitive pay, comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, maternity/paternity leave, flexible work arrangements, education reimbursement, wellness programs and more. Note, Citizens’ paid time off policy exceeds the mandatory, paid sick or paid time-away policy of every local and state jurisdiction in the United States. For an overview of our benefits, visit https://jobs.citizensbank.com/benefits .

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables all colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and everyone is expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, performance and capability.

Why Work for Us

At Citizens, you'll find a customer-centric culture built around helping our customers and giving back to our local communities. When you join our team, you are part of a supportive and collaborative workforce, with access to training and tools to accelerate your potential and maximize your career growth

Background Check

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the candidate successfully passing a background check, which may include initial credit, motor vehicle record, public record, prior employment verification, and criminal background checks. Results of the background check are individually reviewed based upon legal requirements imposed by our regulators and with consideration of the nature and gravity of the background history and the job offered. Any offer of employment will include further information.

11/30/2026