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ACTIAN

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Sr. CX Designer, AI & Digital Experiences at ACTIAN

REMOTE SENIOR
Posted 2 months ago
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Company snapshot

ACTIAN

Actian Corp provides data management solutions for organizations to make confident, data-driven decisions and accelerate growth through hybrid data management, integration, and analytics services worldwide.

Enterprise Cloud Services Technology SAAS
HQ
Palo Alto, California, United States
Team size
251-1K
Founded
2005
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Quick Summary

Role Overview

The Sr. CX Designer for AI and Digital Experiences is a hands-on role focused on improving the end-to-end customer journey at Actian. Reporting to the VP of Customer Experience, this individual designs cohesive, AI-powered digital experiences across a diverse product ecosystem. The position combines design thinking rigor with AI fluency to reduce friction and accelerate customer time-to-value.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and prototype AI-powered customer touchpoints including agentic workflows and intelligent chatbots
  • Map the full customer journey across digital channels to identify and prioritize high-impact improvements
  • Champion a consistent experience layer across Actians diverse portfolio of databases and SaaS products
  • Develop self-service and digital-first experiences that support product-led growth and trial activation
  • Facilitate design thinking workshops with cross-functional stakeholders to co-create experience solutions
  • Define and track success metrics such as self-service resolution rates and customer satisfaction

Requirements Snapshot

  • At least five years of experience in customer experience design or service design within SaaS
  • Demonstrated command of design thinking frameworks including journey mapping and service blueprinting
  • Hands-on experience designing AI-powered interactions and using modern AI platforms in daily work
  • Strong visual communication skills with proficiency in prototyping tools like Figma and Miro
  • Proven ability to connect design decisions to measurable business outcomes and executive-level reporting

Expected Impact

This role will drive measurable improvements in the customer journey by reducing friction and increasing self-sufficiency through AI-integrated solutions. By creating a unified experience layer across diverse products, the designer will accelerate time-to-value and improve key indicators like retention and digital engagement.

A DesignJobs.World summary of the employer's posting, written to highlight scope, requirements, and fit (AI-assisted, human-reviewed). For full details, see the description below.

Job Description

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Sr. CX Designer, AI & Digital Experiences is a hands-on design and execution role within Actian’s Customer Experience team. Reporting to the VP of Customer Experience, this individual is responsible for designing and delivering measurable improvements to the end-to-end customer experience across Actian.

This is a CX-layer role focused on the holistic experience of being an Actian customer: how customers discover, evaluate, onboard, get support, and grow with Actian across a diverse and evolving product ecosystem. The ideal candidate brings design thinking rigor, AI fluency, and a bias toward executable deliverables with demonstrated impact.

Actian’s portfolio spans classic databases, agentic AI solutions and modern SaaS products, which creates both complexity and opportunity. This role will help customers navigate that ecosystem more intuitively by designing cohesive, AI-powered digital experiences that reduce friction and accelerate time-to-value.

RESPONSIBILITIES

AI-Powered Experience Design

Design and prototype AI-powered customer experience touchpoints, including agentic workflows, intelligent chatbots, and AI-assisted self-service interactions across the customer lifecycle
Identify opportunities to embed AI into key customer journey moments to reduce friction, improve discoverability, and increase customer self-sufficiency
Collaborate with marketing, sales, product, engineering and customer success teams to translate AI capabilities into intuitive, customer-centered experience concepts

End-to-End Digital Experience

Map and analyze the full customer journey across Actian’s digital ecosystem including web, community, support, onboarding, and self-service channels to identify gaps and prioritize high-impact improvements
Design connected, cohesive digital experiences that help customers more easily find what they need and derive value faster
Champion a consistent experience layer across Actian’s diverse product portfolio, ensuring customers have a unified sense of engagement regardless of which product they interact with

Self-Service & Product-Led Growth

  • Design self-service and digital-first customer experiences that support Actian’s product-led growth motion, including trial activation, onboarding flows, and in-journey guidance
  • Partner with the CX strategy team to shape experience concepts for new product launches and emerging go-to-market approaches
  • Identify where customers get stuck or drop off in self-service flows and design interventions that improve conversion and retention

CX Design Execution & Deliverables

  • Develop high-quality CX design artifacts including journey maps, service blueprints, experience briefs, wireframes, conceptual prototypes, and storyboards that translate strategy into actionable direction for cross-functional teams
  • Plan and facilitate design thinking workshops with stakeholders from Product, Marketing, Customer Success, Sales, and IT to surface insights and co-create experience solutions
  • Translate customer research, behavioral data, and competitive benchmarks into prioritized, actionable experience improvements

Measurement & Demonstrated Impact

  • Define clear success metrics for each CX initiative and track improvements against key experience indicators such as self-service resolution rates, time-to-value, customer satisfaction, and digital engagement
  • Build a track record of demonstrated CX impact connecting design decisions to measurable business and customer outcomes
  • Present findings, designs, and results clearly to senior leadership, making the business case for CX investments

SKILLS & EXPERTISE

  • 5–7+ years in customer experience design, experience strategy, service design, or a closely related discipline within SaaS, enterprise software, or digital consulting
  • Demonstrated command of design thinking frameworks including journey mapping, service blueprinting, persona development, and Jobs-to-be-Done with evidence of real-world impact
  • Hands-on experience designing or conceptualizing AI-powered experiences, including chatbot or virtual assistant flows, agentic interactions, or AI-assisted self-service
  • Active, demonstrated use of AI tools in your day-to-day design and strategy work including AI platforms (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini), AI-assisted design tools (e.g., Figma Make), and AI-integrated research, synthesis, or prototyping workflows; ability to speak concretely to how AI has changed how you work
  • Understanding of product-led growth principles and experience designing self-service or trial/freemium customer journeys
  • Strong visual communication and prototyping skills; ability to produce wireframes, mockups, storyboards, and flow diagrams that cross-functional teams can act on
  • Proven ability to connect design work to measurable outcomes and present impact clearly to executive stakeholders
  • Skilled facilitator; comfortable planning and running design thinking workshops with diverse, senior stakeholders
    Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong executive presence

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Background in experience strategy, UX strategy, or CX consulting for enterprise SaaS or technology companies
  • Familiarity with data management, analytics, or cloud data platforms
  • Experience improving digital experiences across multi-product or mixed-maturity technology ecosystems
  • Proficiency with Miro, Figma, Sketch, JIRA, Confluence, or similar collaboration and design tools
  • Familiarity with AI/ML capabilities and how to design human-centered experiences that leverage them effectively
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