Experience Designer, Future Experience
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 20, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 19, 2026. Coates Group scores B on the Alion truth index.
Working under the Director of Future Experience, this role brings the organisation’s future experience ambition to life by translating emerging customer needs, behavioural shifts and technology possibilities into clear hypotheses and testable concepts. It connects discovery with experimentation across physical, digital and service environments to generate evidence that guides experience direction, product opportunities and future investment decisions.
Key responsibilities for the role
Investigate customer, operational and business behaviours through contextual research, field observation, interviews and stakeholder engagement to identify unmet needs and emerging opportunities.
Map end-to-end experiences across people, processes, physical environments and technology to reveal dependencies and opportunities for improvement or transformation.
Synthesise research, behavioural insights, business signals and emerging trends into clearly framed experience opportunities, hypotheses and assumptions.
Design experiments and validation activities with clear learning objectives and evaluation criteria.
Translate insights and hypotheses into future-state journeys, service concepts, interaction models, and interactive prototypes at the appropriate level of fidelity, collaborating with technical and design specialists.
Facilitate collaborative discovery, ideation and evaluation activities with internal teams, clients and partners to build shared understanding and challenge existing assumptions.
Capture and communicate research findings, experiment results and future opportunities through clear demonstration narratives, scripts and supporting materials for executive and client stakeholders.
Develop and leverage reusable patterns, templates and assets to improve the speed and consistency of exploration, prototyping and iteration.
Qualifications and experience
Demonstrated experience in experience, interaction, service or product design.
Strong portfolio covering concept development, journey design, interface design and prototyping.
Proficiency in Figma and contemporary design and prototyping tools.
Experience conducting or supporting concept validation and usability testing.
Understanding of accessibility, inclusive design and design-system principles.
Experience collaborating with engineering and product teams in ambiguous, early-stage environments.
Experience with AI-enabled, adaptive or emerging-technology experiences is desirable.