Principal Customer Experience Partner

Citizens; Johnston (RI); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Citizens in Johnston, RI seeks a Principal Customer Experience Partner on the Enterprise Customer Obsession team to champion Customer-first decisions across the organization. You will partner across leadership to translate Customer Experience Principles into everyday actions and colleague behaviors, enabling a remarkable Customer experience.

The ideal candidate is a curious, seasoned transformation practitioner with executive buy-in experience, able to identify root causes, co-design solutions,

Qualifications

• Progressive experience in customer experience, innovation, service/process design, transformation, and/or client management.
• Customer-obsessed, curious, and creative leader with a strong blend of strategy and hands-on delivery.
• Proven ability to lead and manage multiple, cross-functional programs in matrixed organizations.
• Skilled at influencing stakeholders and building trust.
• Ability to analyze data to identify trends, root causes, and opportunities.
• Strong storytelling skills (narrative constructing, visualization/design and verbal delivery).
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define our Customer Obsession Culture: Define customer-first THINKING, SPEAKING, and ACTING across teams, colleague behaviors, operating routines, products, and processes.
• Remove barriers to adoption and translate customer experience principles into practical ways of working.
• Identify ways to promote, reward, and amplify Customer-first behaviors that reinforce desired culture and consistent execution.
• Build our Customer Obsession Culture: Lead cultural initiatives from concept through implementation across priority colleague journeys.
• Co-create, incubate, test, iterate, and scale solutions that reduce friction and improve Customer experience outcomes.
• Apply discovery, research, and validation methods to identify needs, root causes, and improvement opportunities.
• Facilitate ideation, synthesis, prototyping, and design activities that move ideas into delivered changes.
• Sustain, Grow and Evolve our Customer Obsession Culture: Drive Customer-first decision-making and behavior changes across the organization through storytelling, influence, coaching, and partnership.
• Influence senior leaders and day-to-day colleagues to act on what matters most to Customers.
• Challenge the status quo and rally all colleagues around meaningful, measurable action.

Skills

Customer experience

Innovation

Process design

Transformation

Client management

Influencing stakeholders

Storytelling

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Description

As a Principal Customer Experience Partner on the Enterprise Customer Obsession team, you will partner across the enterprise, with every level of leadership, to champion making the Customer-first in the way we THINK, SPEAK, and ACT translating Customer Experience Principles into everyday decisions and colleague behaviors needed to deliver a remarkable Customer experience. You will be challenged to continuously and creatively access, re-imagine, optimize, and question every facet of the colleagues’ end-to-end experience (e.g., Onboarding, Incentives, Job Duties, Training) and Citizens’ operating processes to enable, evolve and sustain a Customer obsessed culture. The ideal candidate is a curious, seasoned innovator and transformation practitioner that has led enterprise-scale change by demonstrating the ability to achieve executive leader buy-in, identify root causes, creatively co-design solutions and drive implementation leading to tangible Customer experience and business impact.

In This Role You Will

• Define our Customer Obsession Culture:
• Define what Customer-first THINKING, SPEAKING, and ACTING looks like across teams, colleague behaviors, operating routines, products, and processes.
• Remove barriers to adoption and help teams translate customer experience principles into practical ways of working.
• Identify ways to promote, recognize, reward, and amplify Customer-first behaviors that reinforce desired culture and consistent execution.
• Build our Customer Obsession Culture:
• Lead Customer Obsession cultural initiatives from concept through implementation across priority colleague journeys.
• Co-create, incubate, test, iterate, and scale solutions that reduce friction and improve Customer experience outcomes.
• Apply discovery, research, and validation methods to identify needs, root causes, and improvement opportunities.
• Facilitate ideation, synthesis, prototyping, and design activities that move ideas into delivered changes.
• Sustain, Grow and Evolve our Customer Obsession Culture:
• Drive Customer-first decision-making and behavior changes across the organization through storytelling, influence, coaching, and partnership.
• Influence senior leaders and day-to-day colleagues to act on what matters most to Customers.
• Challenge the status quo and rally all colleagues around meaningful, measurable action.

Experience / Background

• Progressive Experience in customer experience, innovation, service/process design, transformation, and/or client management.
• Customer-obsessed, curious, and creative leader with a strong blend of strategy and hands-on delivery
• Proven ability to lead and manage multiple, cross-functional programs in matrixed organizations.
• Skilled at influencing stakeholders and building trust.
• Ability to analyze data to identify trends, root causes, and opportunities.
• Strong storytelling skills (narrative constructing, visualization/design and verbal delivery)
• Comfortable with ambiguity, iteration, and challenging the status quo.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Master’s degree preferred.

Hours & Work Schedule

• Hours per Week: 40+
• Work Schedule: Monday-Friday / 4 days a week in office, 1 day remote

Work Authorization

This role is not eligible for new employer sponsored or current H-1 B visa holders. Applicants, including current OPT, L and other visa holders, must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for new employer sponsorship for themselves or their spouses now and in the future.

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