At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.
\nWhen you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing.
\nPrincipal XM Scientist
\nWhy We Have This Role
\nThis role is crucial in delivering program consulting services to Qualtrics customers across various industries, empowering them to develop and execute world-class CX Programs. You'll lead with creation of a strategic roadmap, collaborating closely with clients to align on program vision, design journeys, and measurement strategies. By leveraging your expertise, you'll guide clients through organisational change, driving continuous insights and helping them realise tangible business outcomes.
\nThis person is responsible for delivery of program consulting services to Qualtrics customers, across a variety of industries, to help them design and run a world-class CX Program focused on transforming our clients’ frontline care interactions. This person will lead with a strategic roadmap to define the program direction, work with clients to drive strategic executive alignment and design programs, journeys and measurement strategy (surveys, embedded data, unstructured data, dashboards, closed-loop flows) to help achieve desired outcomes (such as driving operational efficiencies and cost reduction, increasing revenue and customer loyalty). This individual will help clients drive organisational change and address the common CX challenge of realising value by creating a systematic approach to driving continuous insights that will help to prioritise where to focus, as well as track and measure the effectiveness and associated value of actions taken.
\nIn this role, deep experience in Contact Centre Operations and/or Transformation and with design/analysis of unstructured data from call centre, chat, social media, and review sites is crucial. This requires:
You will engage with some of the world’s most recognizable brands, to deliver services to augment their ability to execute a CX program, including program design, maturity assessments, program reviews, customer journey mapping, listening post designs, etc.
\nThis highly-visible role will interface with client stakeholders at different levels of an organization to gain a deep understanding of their business needs and shape their CX Programs. This requires hands-on work in socializing, influencing, and implementing CX best-practices from strategic, methodological and operational points of view.
\nYou will understand industry trends, shifts taking place in the experience management industry, and be able to design forward-thinking impactful solutions for our clients.
\nHow You’ll Find Success
\n\nStrategic Leadership: Lead engagements from program vision to ongoing value realization, driving transformational change and continuous improvement.\nCustomer Experience Expertise: Utilize your extensive CX design and delivery experience to serve as a trusted advisor, translating customer needs into actionable business requirements.\nCollaborative Engagement: Foster collaborative relationships with key stakeholders and program leaders, enabling successful program deployment and ongoing success.\nAnalytical Proficiency: Apply strong analytical skills to derive compelling insights and recommendations tailored for executives, management, and front-line teams.\nInfluential Communication: Effectively communicate strategic concepts and best practices through written, analytical, and verbal channels, evangelizing key concepts and driving alignment.\n\n\n
How You’ll Grow
\n\nProfessional Development: Opportunity to further develop expertise in CX design, delivery, and consulting through hands-on client engagements and thought leadership contributions.\nLeadership Development: Lead strategic sessions, present to senior leadership teams, and create strategic deliverables, enhancing leadership and problem-solving skills.\nIndustry Recognition: Contribute to consulting, thought leadership, and academic articles, elevating visibility and recognition in the CX domain.\n\n\n
Things You’ll Do
\n\nStrategic Guidance: Provide post-sale consulting support to guide clients in standing up best-in-class Customer Experience Programs, from program design to ongoing maturity advancement.\nProgram Management: Manage engagements from program vision to organizational change, continuously driving value realization and program improvement.\nStakeholder Engagement: Foster collaborative relationships with key business stakeholders and program leaders to ensure successful program deployment and ongoing success.\nInsightful Analysis: Guide the analysis of operational, customer, and financial data to create compelling insights and recommendations tailored for different organizational levels.\nStrategic Content Development: Develop strategic content for consulting, thought leadership, and academic articles, contributing to industry knowledge and best practices.\n\n\n
What We’re Looking For On Your Resume
\n\nCX Expertise: 10+ years of CX design and delivery experience in major industry verticals.\nEducational Background: Advanced degree in a research or business-centric field preferred. Bachelor's Degree required.\nMethodological Knowledge: Strong understanding of research methodology, survey design, and data analysis.\nProgram Design: Understanding of program governance, change management, organizational design principles.\nExperience: Text Analytics, AI-led Design Principles, Contact Centers or Locations based businesses \nCommunication Skills: Exceptional written, analytical, and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting to senior leadership teams.\n\n\n
What You Should Know About This Team
\n\nCollaborative Environment: We foster a collaborative culture where team members work together to drive transformative outcomes for our clients.\nIndustry Impact: Joining our team means engaging with some of the world's most recognizable brands and making a tangible difference in their CX programs.\nGrowth Opportunities: You'll have ample opportunities for professional growth and development, with support for further education, certifications, and industry recognition.\nTravel Flexibility: Willingness and ability to travel up to 25-30% as needed.\n\nOur Team’s Favourite Perks and Benefits
\n\nQualtrics Experience Program - A bonus each year for an experience of your choosing\nWorldwide and diverse community that enjoys helping each other\nAt Qualtrics we are constantly working to create an environment where everyone feels safe and comfortable coming to work and can, as a result of our culture, make their best possible contribution to our team\n\nThe Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week, work where you want, owning the integration of work and life.
\nQualtrics is an equal opportunity employer meaning that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.
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\nQualtrics is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Qualtrics will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please let your Qualtrics contact/recruiter know.
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