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Customer Experience Design Strategist at American Honda Motor Co., Inc.

Posted in Architecture 30+ days ago.

Type: Full-Time
Location: Torrance, California





Job Description:

Customer Experience Design Strategist

Location: Torrance, CA

What Makes a Honda, is Who makes a Honda

Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it’s a joyful one.  We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. 

At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success.  We strive to be a company which serves as a source of “power” that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential. To this end, Honda strives to realize “the joy and freedom of mobility” by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a “zero environmental footprint.”

We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team.

If your goals and values align with Honda’s, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

About this Position: 

In this role, you will lead multiple, cross-functional CX strategy projects to define optimal customer experiences and collaborate closely with stakeholder. You will also play a critical role in leading design research, experiment design, and visualization of customer experience strategy, along with delivering research plans, insight summaries, user journeys, concepts and artifacts that describe a new product or service. As a Customer Experience Design Strategist, you will facilitate analysis of current state customer journey, lead the design of ideal state customer experience, identify gaps, and develop a roadmap toward realizing the ideal state.

Responsibilities include:


  • Lead cross-functional teams in design of customer experience/journey to deliver compelling, easy to use digital products and services. 

  • Lead the business units in turning customer analytics to action by facilitating working sessions

  • Plan, design, and execute research that seeks to understand user needs, problems, and potential opportunities to enhance their experience. Incorporate insights from Analytics team and CX Experience research to prioritize user needs, pain points, and investments

  • Summarize and articulate finds from research through clear, concise, and compelling writing and verbal presentations

  • Define, build, and manage Customer Experience Design Team. Oversee development and growth of capability in designing customer experience within Customer Experience Division and across the enterprise. 

  • Develop Honda’s capability in facilitating collaborative & innovative problem-solving through design thinking. 

Who we are seeking:

Required Work Experience:


  • 7+ years within a customer-focused organization; experience in Customer Experience, human-centered design, design thinking, and/or lean startup for experience design and/or new product development required

  • 3+ years people leader experience and building capability on design thinking

  • Experience in seeding innovation methodologies and mindset in a large organization

  • Project Management experience

  • Proven track record in creating digital products, tactics, and/or programs that improve customer experience across all touchpoints, business units, and technologies

  • Experience planning and executing testing of concepts

  • Experience with business models, market analysis, trend analysis

Required Education:


  • Bachelor’s Degree required

  • MBA, or graduate degree in Design, Consumer Research, or similar is a plus

Desired skills:


  • Thrive in ambiguous environment and proactively develop a clear direction

  • Use a range of tools such as journey maps, personas, insight mining, opportunity development to advance work

  • Passion for an iterative design process and embrace feedback

  • Strategic thinker with ability to keep teams focused on highest impact drivers of success, navigate complex senior-level business relationships

  • Effective storytelling to communicate insights and research findings with a clear, persuasive point of view

Additional Position Factors:


  • Workstyle:        Remote Work Opportunities

At Honda, you will play a key role in our journey to become a company that society wants to exist now, and in the future. Your endless curiosity will drive innovation and your courageous spirit will challenge the status quo.  We believe having a workforce made up of diverse thinkers and innovators makes us a better Honda.  Respect for each other and respect for diversity each and every day drives our associates to contribute at the highest level and work effectively in a team environment.  We make the dream of mobility a reality with our innovative and high-quality products. Together, we Bring the Future to our customers, associates, and communities.  We are Honda!

What differentiates Honda and make us an employer of choice?

Total Rewards:


  • Competitive Base Salary

  • Annual Bonus

  • Manager Lease Car Program (No Cost - Car, Maintenance, and Insurance included)

  • Industry leading Benefit Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Rx)

  • Paid time off, including vacation, paid holidays, sick time, personal days

  • 401K Plan with company match + additional contribution

Career Growth:


  • Advancement opportunities

  • Career mobility

  • Education reimbursement for continued learning

  • Training and Development programs

Additional Offerings:


  • Wellbeing program

  • Community service and engagement programs

  • Product programs

  • Free drinks onsite

Honda is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.





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