Job Information
Travelers Insurance Company Experience Design Research Lead in Hartford, Connecticut
Who Are We?
Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.
Job Category
Technology
Compensation Overview
The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.
Salary Range
$102,100.00 - $168,400.00
Target Openings
1
What Is the Opportunity?
Are you passionate about integrating user experience considerations into strategic decision-making processes? Do you thrive on performing rigorous qualitative analysis and leveraging various UX research methods in the design process? If you are excited about large transformative experiences involving a team of UX researchers and designers, and effectively communicating with stakeholders, product, and engineering teams, this might be the role for you.
Travelers' Claim Experience Design (XD) team creates solutions to ensure best-in-class experiences for our customers, agents, employees, and partners. In this role, you will be leading both in-person and remote primary research studies - collecting qualitative and quantitative feedback for analysis and action. Your research will contribute to uncovering new opportunities, rapid new concept prototyping, usability testing, and experimenting with real-world offerings.
With guidance and strategic direction from Experience Design (XD) leadership, you will collaborate with designers, fellow researchers, product and journey management, engineering, data and analytics, business stakeholders, and others. You contribute to setting experience vision and strategy, turn insights into actionable observations, and define, test, and implement service and product solutions in one or more channels. Fueled by your team’s research insights, you will tell powerful stories that help build empathy and inspire the next iteration of efficient, seamless, and engaging claim experiences.
What Will You Do?
Lead research studies involving supporting UX researchers and designers - creating, and improving systems, heuristics, models, and concepts (e.g., mental models, journey maps, service blueprints, information architecture, scenarios, personas, interaction maps) guided by established research and design objectives, heuristics, principles, and standards.
Create and deliver compelling research reports, insights, recommendations, personas, journey-maps and service. Solicit feedback, inform and maintain a research repository of atomic insights laddering up to themes, heuristics, and enterprise level stories.
Identify, plan, execute, analyze, and report out generative, formative, and summative UX research to gather user experience and contextual data, evaluate the usability of solutions, benchmark existing systems; determine the effectiveness of concepts, and reports results and recommendations to stakeholders
Perform rigorous analysis with large sets of qualitative and quantitative data. Utilize knowledge of various qualitative coding methods including content analysis, thematic analysis, grounded theory,
Provide domain-specific insights and input in close coordination and partnership with designers and the design team, while aligning and sequencing work appropriately, removing impediments, identifying risks, and helping others understand scope and objectives.
Collaborate and communicate with various stakeholders (i.e., end users, other business and technology functions, and outside partners), integrating and advancing a human-centered focus that informs work through research-based insights and design exploration processes.
Help to identify new and improved tools, methods, and processes.
Guide and mentor less experienced XD staff, contribute to and help lead team and practice development, and grow your own skills while advancing the XD and research functions.
If managing others, set performance goals, provide ongoing feedback, and conduct standard performance reviews.
Perform other duties as assigned.
What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?
Experience in a related field, such as HCI, VCD, Service Design, Anthropology, etc.
Five years of related experience.
Working knowledge of most areas, along with proficiency in two or more areas:
Design research
Information architecture
Interaction design
Visual design
Content design (strategy, writing, editing for interaction)
Information design
Service design
Prototyping
Presentation and communication
Collaboration and facilitation
Design strategy
Usability testing
Data analysis
Design systems
What is a Must Have?
Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in work experience.
Four years of related experience.
What Is in It for You?
Health Insurance : Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, domestic partners, and children – are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.
Employment Practices
Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that we can deliver the very best products and services when our workforce reflects the diverse customers and communities we serve. We are committed to recruiting, retaining and developing the diverse talent of all of our employees and fostering an inclusive workplace, where we celebrate differences, promote belonging, and work together to deliver extraordinary results.
In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.
If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email (4-ESU@travelers.com) so we may assist you.
Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.
To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/ .