CX/ Design Thinking Manager
Fairfax, VA

Job Description

Working at ICF

Working at ICF means applying a passion for meaningful work with intellectual rigor to help solve the leading issues of our day. Smart, compassionate, innovative, committed, ICF employees tackle unprecedented challenges to benefit people, businesses, and governments around the globe. We believe in collaboration, mutual respect, open communication, and opportunity for growth. If you're seeking to make a difference in the world, visit www.icf.com/careers to find your next career. ICF-together for tomorrow.

How would you like to make a difference in the lives of Americans? Or, how would you like the work you produce, touch real lives? ICF is looking for CX/ Design Thinking Manager to join our thriving UX team. This position provides our client with expertise in customer experience, user experience, and content strategy to help serve our customers. You'll provide strategic guidance to clients and direction to junior user experience staff responsible for day-to-day delivery. You'll conduct research, facilitate workshops, provide customer- and user-experience expertise, and create artifacts to memorialize the findings (e.g. personas, journey maps, experience maps, service blueprints and more.)

We push the digital world forward, using technology to achieve life's most important mission-connecting people. Are you ready for what's next? Constant learning opportunities, happy hours at headquarters, and great benefits are just some of the perks of joining ICF. Find out what we're up to at buildwithicfi.com. This position is based in Washington, DC with the occasional travel (25%) to customer sites across the country.

What you'll need:

* Experienced at facilitating workshops.
* Experience with human-centered design and design thinking.
* 10+ years of experience in customer experience, user experience, and service design
* Bachelor's Degree
* Extensive experience conducting customer and user-experience research.
* Experience creating personas, journey maps, experience maps and service blueprints.
* Experience working effectively with project managers and agile development teams to deliver user-centered solutions within budget and scope.

Preferred Experience:

* Experience working with government agencies.
* Experience in service design.
* Experience working in an agency environment or consulting role related to user experience or information architecture. Understanding of customer experience considerations across various channels-e.g. in person, call centers, text messaging programs, mobile apps, websites, social media channels, email.
* Experience with proposing new projects, including proposals, statements of work, estimating level of effort.
* Master's degree in a relevant field.

ICF (NASDAQ:ICFI) is a global consulting services company with over 7,000 full- and part-time employees, but we are not your typical consultants. At ICF, business analysts and policy specialists work together with digital strategists, data scientists and creatives. We combine unmatched industry expertise with cutting-edge engagement capabilities to help organizations solve their most complex challenges. Since 1969, public and private sector clients have worked with ICF to navigate change and shape the future. Learn more at icf.com.

Fairfax, VA (VA01)