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Customer Design Lead

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British Airways

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United Kingdom , London

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Job Description:

As Customer Design Lead, you’ll bring our customer care strategy to life—shaping meaningful, end‑to‑end experiences that make a real difference for our customers and our business. You’ll design date‑driven journeys that are scalable, commercially grounded, and built around genuine customer needs, working collaboratively across teams to embed design thinking and ensure the customer voice is central to every decision. As our customer care strategy evolves, you’ll play a pivotal role in transforming the build function into a continuous, always‑on capability, harnessing AI and emerging technologies. You will help create intelligent, adaptive, and future‑ready experiences that continually learn, improve, and set new standards for customer care.

Job Responsibility:

  • Translate CX Strategy into Actionable Design Initiatives - Lead the design and delivery of customer journeys aligned with strategic goals and ensure customer care principles are embedded across all touchpoints
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration - Partner with Product, Tech, Ops, and Care teams to co-create solutions that meet customer needs and act as a bridge between strategic intent and operational execution
  • Customer Insight Integration - Use qualitative and quantitative data to inform design decisions and champion voice-of-the-customer programmes and ensure feedback loops are closed
  • Design Governance & Standards - Establish and maintain CX design principles, toolkits, and frameworks and ensure consistency and quality across all customer-facing experiences
  • Prototyping & Testing - Lead rapid prototyping and testing of new experiences and validate builds through customer testing and iterate based on insights
  • Operational Resilience - Be an advocate for the operation by supporting in times of disruption in a way determined to your location

Requirements:

  • Expertise in CX, service design, and journey mapping
  • Strong data literacy and customer insight integration
  • Skilled in engaging and influencing collaborators
  • Proficient in prototyping or testing
  • Awareness and practice in tech trends (AI, automation, etc.)
  • Agile approach and experience in iterative delivery
  • Clear communicator and confident design leader
  • Ability to define and track CX metrics (e.g. NPS, CSAT, CES)
  • Proactive by nature
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Excellent resilience and can cope well with pressure
  • Strong people management including ability to manage indirect teams & stakeholders
  • Excellent interpersonal skills – able to influence stakeholders (including at senior levels)
  • Strong team worker with strong influencing and negotiation skills
  • Ideally 3-5 years in customer experience, service design, or experience strategy roles
  • Strong track record of leading cross-functional design initiatives
  • Familiarity with agile delivery and working in tech-enabled environments
  • Familiar with working within and creating governed environments
  • Track record of implementing service design changes that have driven measurable improvements in CX, commercial outcomes, productivity etc

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 04, 2026

Expiration:
March 06, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
On-site work
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