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For us, customer experience is not an add-on; it’s foundational to who we are and how we empower our clients. As the world’s largest, most disruptive agency, we drive lasting growth for clients by helping them design, build, and run meaningful experiences that make people’s lives better, more productive, and more meaningful. We do this in three ways: by transforming organizations through standout products and services; by building and delivering award-winning campaigns so brands can engage and communicate creatively with customers at scale; and by using our top-notch skills to pilot, integrate, scale, and run the platforms that underpin the world’s greatest experiences. Visit us here to learn more about what makes us the Experience Agency: www.accenture.com/song\nThe digital economy has caused a massive increase in the amount and importance of digital content. Digital content and the customer experience it fuels are, together, a vital expression of a brand’s voice and purpose. We help leading brands create and deliver the right content for the right customer at the right time for immersive, relevant experiences. We offer an end-to-end approach to the content lifecycle and cut through the complexity for improved speed to market and relevance, at scale. Our unique tools and services organize, store, and optimize content, including taxonomy, rights and asset management, analytics, and quality assurance.\nYou Are:\nAs an Experience Design Manager within Accenture Song's Service Creative practice, you will lead the design and delivery of next-generation, AI-powered customer service products and experiences. This role combines deep expertise in UX, product design, conversational experiences, and emerging AI technologies with the ability to lead teams, shape client engagements, and drive business impact.\nYou will manage multidisciplinary teams of product designers, conversation designers, service designers, and AI specialists to create intuitive, trustworthy, and scalable customer experiences across digital and conversational channels. You are equally comfortable defining experience strategy, guiding teams through ambiguity, facilitating executive stakeholder conversations, and ensuring high-quality delivery from discovery through launch.\nYou embrace AI as both a design material and a way of working, helping teams create better outcomes through AI-native design approaches while developing the next generation of experience design talent.\nThe Work:\nLead end-to-end experience strategy and design delivery for AI-powered customer service solutions, from discovery and research through implementation and optimization\nDirect and mentor teams of designers across product, conversation, and service design disciplines, ensuring high-quality outputs and professional growth\nEstablish product visions, customer journeys, service blueprints, experience frameworks, and interaction models that align user needs with business objectives\nLead design workstreams across chat experiences, agent assist tools, agent dashboards, escalation workflows, virtual assistants, and self-service platforms\nTranslate complex AI capabilities, including agentic workflows, confidence states, autonomous actions, and human-in-the-loop interactions into transparent and intuitive user experiences\nPartner closely with product managers, AI/NLP engineers, architects, CX strategists, researchers, and client stakeholders to shape roadmaps and experience strategies\nFacilitate workshops, design sprints, co-creation sessions, and stakeholder reviews to align teams and accelerate decision-making\nGuide research, usability testing, and experimentation efforts, ensuring insights and data inform design decisions\nDrive design quality across multiple initiatives, providing direction on interaction design, visual design, accessibility, conversational flows, and AI experience patterns\nContribute to AI-native design systems, governance frameworks, reusable patterns, and best practices that enable consistency and scalability\nAdvocate for inclusive and accessible experiences across both digital interfaces and AI-generated interactions\nSupport business development activities through proposals, thought leadership, innovation initiatives, and opportunity identification within existing client engagements\nBasic Qualifications:\n7+ years of professional experience delivering UX, product design, service design, or experience design solutions across digital products and platforms\n4+ years leading end-to-end product or service design engagements from discovery and strategy through implementation and optimization\n3+ years managing, mentoring, coaching, or leading teams of designers within cross-functional environments\n3+ years collaborating with product, engineering, AI/NLP, analytics, CX, and business stakeholders in agile delivery environments\n1+ years experience designing AI-powered or conversational experiences, including chatbots, virtual agents, copilots, assistant experiences, or voice interfaces\nNice to Haves:\nExperience leading the creation of customer journeys, interaction models, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and scalable experience solutions\nAdvanced proficiency with Figma, design systems, prototyping, and modern product design practices\nExperience presenting experience strategies, design rationale, and recommendations to senior stakeholders and client leadership\nDemonstrated experience designing for trust, transparency, fallback handling, human-in-the-loop interactions, and agentic AI workflows\nExperience leading customer service, contact center, customer support, or employee support transformation initiatives\nFamiliarity with GenAI- and LLM-powered experiences, including prompt design, orchestration patterns, multi-agent systems, and responsible AI principles\nExperience designing enterprise SaaS platforms, workflow tools, or customer experience ecosystems\nApplied knowledge of WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards across both digital interfaces and AI-generated content\nExperience establishing and evolving design systems, governance models, and design operations practices\nExperience supporting client pursuits, proposal development, and thought leadership initiatives\nPrior experience working in consulting, studio, or multi-client environments\nBachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Psychology, or a related field\nCompensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.\nWe anticipate this job posting will be posted until 10/30/2026.\nAccenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:\nU.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture\nRole Location Annual Salary Range\nCalifornia $94,400 to $293,800\nColorado $94,400 to $253,800\nConnecticut $94,400 to $253,800\nDistrict of Columbia $100,500 to $270,300\nIllinois $87,400 to $253,800\nMaine $80,400 to $216,200\nMaryland $94,400 to $253,800\nMassachusetts $94,400 to $270,300\nMinnesota $94,400 to $253,800\nNew York $87,400 to $293,800\nNew Jersey $100,500 to $293,800\nOhio $87,400 to $235,000\nVirginia $87,400 to $270,300\nWashington $100,500 to $270,300\nAbout Accenture\nAccenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us atwww.accenture.com\nWhat We Believe\nWe have an unwavering commitment to diversity with the aim that every one of our people has a full sense of belonging within our organization. As a business imperative, every person at Accenture has the responsibility to create and sustain an inclusive environment.\nInclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and core values. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities. Read more here\nRequesting An Accommodation\nAccenture is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for persons with disabilities or religious observances, including reasonable accommodation when needed. If you are hired by Accenture and require accommodation to perform the essential functions of your role, you will be asked to participate in our reasonable accommodation process. Accommodations made to facilitate the recruiting process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodations once hired.\nIf you would like to be considered for employment opportunities with Accenture and have accommodation needs such as for a disability or religious observance, please call us toll free at 1 (877) 889-9009 or send us an email or speak with your recruiter.\nEqual Employment Opportunity Statement\nWe believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, military veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.\nFor details, view a copy of the Accenture Equal Opportunity Statement\nAccenture is an EEO and Affirmative Action Employer of Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.\nAccenture is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.\nOther Employment Statements \nApplicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.\nCandidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.\nJob candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process. Further, at Accenture a criminal conviction history is not an absolute bar to employment.\nThe Company will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. 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