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.
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Skills Required
- Progressive experience in customer experience, innovation, service/process design, transformation, and/or client management
- Proven ability to lead and manage multiple cross-functional programs in matrixed organizations
- Skilled at influencing stakeholders and building trust with senior leaders
- Ability to analyze data to identify trends, root causes, and opportunities
- Strong storytelling skills (narrative construction, visualization/design, and verbal delivery)
- Comfortable with ambiguity, iteration, and challenging the status quo
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
- Authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employer sponsorship now or in the future
- Willingness to work 40+ hours per week and be in-office four days a week (one remote day)
- Successful completion of background checks (credit, MVR, criminal, employment verification as applicable)
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as six weeks at 100% pay for all new parents, with up to 16 weeks for birthing parents. Family-building and caregiving supports include more than $25,000 in adoption assistance and up to 10 days of backup care.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes 11 paid holidays and up to 27 PTO days, with materials encouraging employees to use their time. This breadth is frequently positioned as a core strength of the total rewards package.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay practices are presented as equitable, with disclosures citing near-parity by gender and no gaps for people of color in similar roles. Transparency shows up in posted hourly ranges for retail roles, and some markets list banker pay at competitive levels.
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