Service Design Senior Associate

JPMorganChase; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Wellness centers

Retirement plan

Backup childcare

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Financial coaching

Job summary

Chase is seeking a Service Design Senior Associate in Cross-Product and Foresight Strategy in Chicago to shape end-to-end customer and employee experiences across multiple product lines, applying service design principles and AI-enabled tooling.

You will collaborate with cross-functional partners, draft journey maps and blueprints, and guide workshops to translate insights into opportunities that improve customer journeys while aligning with business goals.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in service design for financial services.
• Drafts service blueprints and journey maps for diverse customers.
• Inclusive design and accessibility experience.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end service experiences and draft blueprints.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify user needs.
• Draft journey maps and service blueprints for improvements.
• Lead workshops to gather customer insights.
• Create experience maps and prototypes of journeys.
• Iterate based on user feedback to enhance journeys.
• Develop frameworks illustrating actions, processes, and pain points.
• Synthesize qualitative findings to inform future states.
• Co-facilitate workshops and align strategic visions.
• Explore AI tooling to accelerate work and outcomes.
• Engage partners to gain alignment on future strategies.
• Develop readouts and decision frameworks for complex systems.
• Stay informed on service design and AI transformation trends.

Skills

Service design

End-to-end experience

Inclusive design

UX principles

AI tooling

Communication

Stakeholder management

Job description

Job Description

Join our dynamic team to redefine service design, fostering innovative and inclusive customer experiences.

As a Service Design Senior Associate in Cross-Product and Foresight Strategy, you will play a pivotal role in developing end-to-end customer and employee experiences by leveraging your advanced knowledge of service design principles. As a core contributor participate in the execution of service strategies designed to serve our employees' and customers' experiences navigating products and services. Your expertise in service design, coupled with a strong understanding of the financial services industry, will enable you to identify gaps, solve complex problems, and make informed recommendations for enhancing customer experiences. Your focus will be on strategic thinking and decision-making and contributing to the continuous improvement of our products and services as you work independently and provide guidance to your peers. Join us in shaping the future of employee and customer experiences. As a cross-product strategist, you consult in the design of service strategies impacting multiple lines of business and corporate functions. You will bridge business objectives with human-centered design to drive strategic alignment and contribute to the continuous improvement of our internal and external offerings. By leveraging a variety of design research methods, you will identify unmet needs and translate them into actionable opportunities. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional partners: guiding them through decision making and behavior change. You are a relationship builder, comfortable navigating ambiguity, excel at communicating complex topics, and storytelling insights to inspire action.

Job Responsibilities

• Design and implement end-to-end service experiences and draft service blueprints to enhance direct and indirect experiences for product features of moderate complexity
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify user needs, preferences, and expectations and ensure the development of inclusive and accessible products and services
• Draft journey maps and service blueprints to visualize and optimize service processes, touchpoints, and interactions and identify areas for improvement and innovation
• Participate in workshops to gather information from customers to understand where improvements can be made along with the customer journey
• Assist in the creation of experience maps and service prototypes that illustrate customer journeys
• Operate with an iterative design mindset as you incorporate user feedback and insights to continuously improve the overall customer journey experiences of our offerings
• Design frameworks to illustrate actions, processes, systems, pain points, and opportunities
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify user needs, preferences, and expectations and ensure the development of inclusive and accessible experiences
• Synthesize qualitative findings and leverage operational/experience signals to identify patterns and trends, and provide actionable recommendations to inform future state experiences
• Co-facilitate workshops to gather information from end users, understand opportunities for improvement, and define the ideal state experience journey. Create alignment on strategic visions through sense-making and synthesis.
• Explore new ways of communication, handoff, research, and building proof of concepts with the use of AI tooling
• Interface with partners to gain alignment, make decisions, and ensure the actionability of future state strategies
• Develop readouts, strategic narratives, recommendations, and decision frameworks to make complex systems accessible, drive alignment, and inspire action
• Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, behavioral shifts, and best practices in service design and AI transformation.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• 3+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in service design, with a focus on end-to-end customer and employee experiences in the financial services industry
• Proven ability drafting service blueprints, journey mapping, and creating compelling storyboards that address direct and indirect experiences for a diverse customer base
• Demonstrated experience in inclusive design, accessibility guidelines, and assistive technology, ensuring products and services cater to all users' needs
• Proficient knowledge of user experience design principles and the ability to apply them to projects of moderate scope, spanning across multiple products or disciplines
• Prior experience in performing iterative design, storyboarding, and information architecture, with a track record of delivering innovative and customer-centric solutions
• Demonstrated experience in conducting and synthesizing qualitative research, and a track record of defining human-centric solutions
• Curiosity and commitment to defining new experiences and innovating to drive business results
• Active integration of AI tooling to accelerate work, push thinking, and improve outcomes.
• Effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator
• Ideally have strong understanding of and experience in financial services or other regulated industry
• Comfortable working across a wide variety of project types, teams, and tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ideally have strong understanding of and experience in financial services or other regulated industry
• Comfortable working across a wide variety of project types, teams, and tools.

About Us

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America's households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

• comprehensive health care coverage
• on-site health and wellness centers
• a retirement savings plan
• backup childcare
• tuition reimbursement
• mental health support
• financial coaching

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans

About The Team

Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We're proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions – all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.