The Customer Experience Researcher is a role focused on improving the experience of our colleagues through deep analysis of employees’ behaviors, identification of meaningful insights, and the realization of viable improvement opportunities using critical thinking, collaboration, and effective storytelling skills. The role will support the mission of the Workplace Experience (WE) team, who is part of the Employee Enablement Solutions (EES) team within Corporate IT (CIT). Employee Enablement Solutions supports the success of our technology and business partners as a champion of the user experience.

The WE team is focused on improving the productivity, satisfaction, and engagement of Visa employees by reimaging their work tool experience. The WE team gains an emphatic understanding of the employees’ tool experience by analyzing employees’ behaviors. They leverage industry knowledge and keen understanding of technology to identify meaningful insights from employees’ current work tool experiences. Finally, the WE team effectively communicates viable improvement solutions through impactful storytelling and oversees the execution of these solutions by effectively collaborating with Technology and other key business partners.

The WE team is driven by imagination, creativity, and powerful storytelling. They are emphatic about the tool experience of their colleagues and are highly solutions oriented to foster a more inclusive and engaging work environment. The WE team is looking for an equally passionate individual, ready to approach the role with empathy, enthusiasm, and critical thinking.

The individual that assumes this role will work heavily with the Reporting & Analytics team, who also operates under the Employee Enablement Solutions (EES) function. Together you will evaluate current methods for monitoring customer experience, as well as propose new methods for more effective monitoring.

This position requires Human-Centered Design expertise with relative examples of implementing solutions that have measurably improved the productivity, usability, and overall satisfaction of fellow colleagues. The ideal candidate must also possess excellent leadership and interpersonal skills that are anchored by the convictions of empathy, influence, and courage. The candidate must have experience influencing individuals spanning across numerous business functions, and in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

Essential Functions:

1. Conduct quantitative and qualitative studies to understand employee’s behaviors, needs, and motivations when leveraging corporate tools using surveys, interviews, telemetry data, usage testing, observations, and other analysis methods.
2. Illustrate the needs and desires of employees through compelling written and oral reports using graphs, diagrams, verbatims, and other effective impact methods.
3. Facilitate collaborative sessions with designers, developers, product managers, engineers, and users to generate a wealth of viable solutions envisioned with zero constraints.
4. Support the design and communication of new solutions that foster increased productivity, usability, usefulness, and greater employee satisfaction using techniques such as user personas, empathy mapping, user requirements, and other human-centered design methods.
5. Oversee the implementation of experience changes through continued engagement with users and advocation for a superior customer experience.
6. Educate the organization on human-centered design principles and practices by developing learning content, hosting workshops, and participating in virtual roadshows.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

The standard working hours for this role currently are from 5:00 pm to 2:00 am, local Manila time. When the work necessitates it, you may be required to work outside of the prescribed work hours.  Visa reserves the right to adjust the  standard working hours in future based on the business requirements