Experience Design & Research Analyst

Role Summary

Do you hold yourself to a higher standard? Do you believe everything can be better? Prudential takes great pride in our culture where excellence is core to our DNA! We are building something bold with an internal consulting engine that reimagines how work flows, how people engage, and how value is delivered. When you join our organization at Prudential, you'll unlock an exciting and impactful career - all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world's leading financial services institutions.

Reporting to the Director of Experience Design & Research, the Analyst of Experience Design & Research will be a main contributor on a team responsible for designing future state ambition that delivers impactful continuous improvement outcomes, shaping end-to-end journeys across key personas, grounded in deep customer insight, research, and experience design. You will partner with other capabilities across the organization and business stakeholders to fully reimagine value streams for quantifiable impact.

If you have a passion to drive insights to action and influence core operating model discipline at an enterprise level, then this is the role for you.

Responsibilities

Research & Strategy

• Develop detailed journey maps to visualize and understand the user's experience across different touchpoints. Partner with business stakeholders to optimize future state journey.
• Translate external research, customer insights, market trends, and data into clear design implications and strategic recommendations.
• Shape and evolve future-state customer journey roadmaps in partnership with business, technology, and process leaders.
• Support in translating insights into actionable experience strategies, initiatives, and roadmaps that can be delivered through cross-functional teams.
• Ensure delivery of execution-ready journey designs that reflect customer needs, process efficiency, and value-stream priorities.
• Ensure research outputs are actionable, timely, and integrated into journey and process redesign efforts.

Facilitation & Collaboration

• Co-design and support the execution of high impact process reimagination workshops and stakeholder engagements
• Support workshops and interactive discussion sessions with business and technology partners.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to integrate customer-centric decision-making, inform prioritization, and develop experience-led metrics to align business goals

Strategic Storytelling & Communication

• Support team leaders in translating complicated systems and business problems into digestible, high impact communications and presentations to help stakeholders make decisions efficiently.
• Champion human-centered design practices for the voice of the customer across enterprise initiatives.

Expertise & Skills

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Expertise in customer journey mapping, experience design, and UX research methodologies.
• Experience translating qualitative and quantitative research into actionable insights.
• Experience in customer-centric, digital-first environments.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally, with a track record of building strong partnerships.
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously across dynamic business environments.
• Strong communication and synthesis skills to translate process issues into north star opportunity narratives that resonate with stakeholders across all levels, ensuring clarity and accountability.
• Strong problem-solving skills rooted in value adding opportunities, with the ability to identify root cause of issues and true underlying needs.

Requirements

• A critical thinker; You always ask "why?" and wonder how things can be improved.
• A best- in- class collaborator; You strive to create alignment in meetings and working sessions with team members and stakeholders.
• A strategic storyteller; You know the value of storytelling and how critical it can be in transforming businesses.
• A dependable voice; You always raise your hand and share you point of view.
• An agent of change; You know the only constant is change and know how to navigate ambiguity and prioritize adaptability while working with speed.

Preferred qualifications

• Consulting experience a plus
• Industry-specific process knowledge relevant to our business sector

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About the Company

ABOUT PGIM - GLOBAL ASSET MANAGEMENT

PGIM is the global asset management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), a leading global investment manager with nearly US$1.5 trillion in assets under management as of September 30th 2025. With offices in 19 countries, PGIM's businesses offer a range of investment solutions for retail and institutional investors around the world across a broad range of asset classes, including public fixed income, private fixed income, fundamental equity, quantitative equity, real estate and alternatives.

With a history dating back 150 years, and experience through more than 30 market cycles, PGIM takes a long-term view, not only in our investment philosophy, but also in how we develop our talent. We want to see our employees excel from their first day with the firm and throughout their tenure with PGIM. We will inspire you, support you, and help you reach your greatest personal and professional aspirations. If PGIM sounds like the place for you, join us. For more information about PGIM, visit PGIM.com.

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