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With a nationwide presence, AARP strengthens communities and advocates for what matters most to the more than 100 million Americans 50-plus and their families: health and financial security, and personal fulfillment. AARP also works for individuals in the marketplace by sparking new solutions and allowing carefully chosen, high-quality products and services to carry the AARP name. As a trusted source for news and information, AARP produces the nation's largest-circulation publications, AARP The Magazine and the AARP Bulletin.\nThe Experience Designer (Advisor) defines and evolves scalable design systems, templates, and frameworks for shaping how experiences work across channels, touchpoints, and moments over time. Drawing on human-centered design and complementary experience approaches, this role informs how experiences are conceived, structured, and delivered across the broader experience ecosystem, focusing on service, journey, and interaction design rather than the technical design and development of digital products. Develops and produces a wide range of design materials to ensure all designs adhere to compliance guidelines while maintaining accessibility and usability.\nResponsibilities:\nPartners cross functionally through all design phases, including client discovery, exploring and defining opportunities, creating actionable/tangible design concepts, and influences experience plans.\nDesigns experience flows, logic, and transitions, translating experience intent into coherent, feasible, and scalable experience models.\nContributes to the evolution and governance of experience frameworks, patterns, and templates to ensure consistency, scalability, and reuse across the enterprise. \nEnsures experience designs are testable, measurable, and operationalized by partnering using metrics to validate feasibility, accessibility, and performance over time.\nPartners with Journey Owners to align experience intent with desired outcomes and operational feasibility and supports the design of future-state journeys by aligning experience flows to business priorities, constraints, and capabilities.\nApplies established experience principles, standards, and guardrails in the design of digital and non-digital experiences.\nQualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Human-Centered Design, User Experience (UX), Interaction Design, Service Design, Graphic Design, Communications, or a related field.\n3+ years of experience in experience design, user experience (UX), service design, customer experience, digital product design, or a related discipline.\nDemonstrated experience applying human-centered design methodologies to develop user flows, interaction models, experience frameworks, and scalable design solutions across digital and non-digital channels.\nProven ability to translate business objectives, consumer needs, and journey requirements into intuitive, actionable, and measurable experience designs that support organizational goals.\nExperience creating and maintaining design systems, templates, standards, and reusable frameworks that drive consistency, scalability, and efficiency across multiple experiences and platforms.\nStrong collaboration skills with the ability to partner effectively with cross-functional teams, including journey owners, product managers, marketers, researchers, technologists, and business stakeholders throughout the design process.\nExperience incorporating accessibility, usability, compliance, and performance requirements into experience designs, ensuring solutions are inclusive, feasible, and sustainable over time.\nDemonstrated ability to use consumer feedback, testing results, analytics, and performance metrics to validate design decisions, optimize experiences, and support continuous improvement.\nAARP will not sponsor an employment visa for this position.\nAdditional Requirements\nRegular and reliable job attendance\nEffective verbal and written communication skills\nExhibit respect and understanding of others to maintain professional relationships\nIndependent judgement in evaluation options to make sound decisions\nIn office/open office environment with the ability to work effectively surrounded by moderate noise\nHybrid Work Environment\nAARP observes Mondays and Fridays as remote workdays, except for essential functions. Remote work can only be done within the United States and its territories.\nCompensation and Benefits\nAARP offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including a 401(k); 100% company-funded pension plan; health, dental, and vision plans; life insurance; paid time off to include company and individual holidays, vacation, sick, caregiving, and parental leave; performance-based and peer-based recognition and tuition reimbursement.\nEqual Employment Opportunity\nAARP is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. 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