Service Design Director

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Humana

Service Design Director

in

Birmingham

Alabama

Description

Humana's Consumer Experience Strategy and Design team was formed to deliver one thing: a personalized, seamless and easy healthcare experience for all our members. This team operates with a mandate to break down traditional silos and design solutions based on how our members seek and receive care, not how operating groups structure themselves. By teaming differently, pioneering agile methodologies, and relentlessly focusing on the consumer experience, the Consumer Experience Strategy and Design team seeks to deliver on this promise for all our members.

The Consumer Experience Strategy and Design team supports this consumer-centric operating model from the moment a member learns about Humana through their first year as a member in our care. This team consists of strategy leaders dedicated to supporting a cross-functional teams of design strategists, technologists and operators. This team combines classical strategy methodologies with a pragmatic operational 'get-it-done' approach alongside several impacted business areas, including clinical services, sales, marketing, IT/technology, and member service.

Responsibilities

As a Service Design Principle, you will be reporting to the Director of Strategy, you will act as a design strategy leader for the Enroll and Onboard experience within the Humana member journey. You will have shared responsibility with a business strategy director to find ways to grow, optimize and tailor our enrollment and onboarding experience for each unique member segment. Ultimately, delivering desirable experiences to members that improve clinical outcomes and help members achieve their best health, while driving profitability to support the long-term sustainability of our offerings. You will collaborate with the cross functional experience transformation team to create and iterate the E2E view of the experience. You will help to coordinate seamless connectivity across channels, touchpoints, and platforms, using strategic tools such as archetypes, journey mapping, and service blueprinting driven. Your work will be driven by segment specific business intelligence data and ethnographic research in service of developing targeted moments, needs, and opportunities where the journey architecture teams can deliver optimized experience.

Responsibilities

Within Humana's Retail Experience Transformation Team we are explorers, listeners, creators, and thinkers working together with our lines of business to create connected experience journeys that drive business and user value and impact.

As part of a multi-disciplinary team comprised of business strategy, design strategy, product strategy, business intelligence, data analysis, and product and experience orchestration the Service Design Principle will:

Drive and execute member research agenda, working with research, marketing and experience teams to coordinate and ensure activity aligns to strategy and knowledge gaps

Develop and maintain detailed end-to-end service blueprints / journey maps across all member touchpoints

Track implementation of end-to-end experience for each member archetype and/or segment, tying improvement activities to key measures that create member and business value

Work collaboratively with members, operators and leadership to propose novel experience improvements that align to priority measures

Maintain the master 'voice of the member' for the archetype and/or segment in collaboration with multiple stakeholders across the organization

Build repeatable processes to improve the cycle time from consumer insights to validated release of new experiences in production

Be a great storyteller, who can seamlessly lead teams to synthesize findings into insights and business recommendations that drive impact

Collaborate and co-create with product teams and business partners quantify value the of a concept, design operational roles and processes, and build business models for larger deployment

Lead the practice of Experience Transformation and Journey Architecture in terms of craft, process and method

Create communication artifacts that define experience journey design strategy best practices in order to upskill and coach business partners and collaborators

Publish articles, books, and other media on behalf of our practice, helping to establish us as thought leaders in the insurance and care journey

Required Experience

Primary consumer research experience, having lead multiple compliant ethnographic studies in consumer homes touching on advanced subjects in the healthcare context

Demonstrated ability to translate consumer needs into conceptual experience models, design tests to validate hypotheses, refine experiences and deploy at scale through operating partners

Advanced level PowerPoint, InDesign or other communications design software

Expert facilitator with ability to design and deliver focus groups, workshops and multiple types of custom (co)design sessions with consumers and business stakeholders

The ability to communicate and influence senior executives to individual contributors

Excellent time management skills, bringing the ability to quickly put structure in place to manage work in a dynamic complex environment

Demonstrated experience leading multiple cross-discipline teams (both technology and design) on experience transformation journeys or efforts.

Ability to navigate in a fast-paced environment and prioritize tasks with competing deadlines

Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to productively collaborate across various organization/functions

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's design degree or equivalent experience in a related field

10 years of relevant industry experience, 5 years leadership/management experience.

Additional Information:

For this job, associates are required to be fully COVID vaccinated, including booster or undergo weekly COVID testing and wear a face covering while at work. The weekly testing will need to be done through an approved Humana vendor, and unvaccinated associates should follow all social distancing and masking protocols if they are required to come into a Humana facility or work outside of their home. We are a healthcare company committed to putting health and safety first for our members, patients, associates, and the communities we serve.

If progressed to offer, you will be required to:

Provide proof of full vaccination, including booster or commit to testing protocols

*OR  *

Provide proof of applicable exemption including any required supporting documentation

Medical, religious, state and remote-only work exemptions are available.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Company info

Humana Inc.
Website : http://www.humana.com