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Our technology detects the earliest signs of failure in critical assets - from high-voltage energy infrastructure to subsea and defense applications - and gives our customers precise, real-time data they can act on.\nThe Role\nAs Senior Customer Experience Designer you will build a deep understanding of the use of both our hardware and software we supply to our defense partners and clients. You will be at the forefront of exploring, researching, and shaping the experiences that define our products, ensuring our unique technology not only meets but anticipates user needs across the complex, high-stakes defense industry. You will be part of the Product team in Underwater Security and work closely with Product Management, R&D, Engineering, Data science, Software, Sales, Projects and Application Engineering teams.\nIn your role no two weeks will look the same. You might join an Application Engineer in the field, interview technicians, map a maintenance journey, test a demo flow, or work with Product and R&D to turn customer insights into practical hardware and software improvements. You will own how we understand and improve the end-to-end customer experience, ensuring real user needs guide decisions across technical, product and commercial teams.\nWithin your first 6-12 months, you will establish a shared, evidence-based view of our customers through clear personas, journey maps, research practices and a structured insight repository. You will identify key experience gaps, introduce repeatable ways to validate new ideas and translate customer needs into product priorities-reducing development risk and helping us deliver technology customers can trust in demanding, high-stakes environments.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead customer and user research by planning and conducting qualitative, quantitative, and field studies across installation, operation, and maintenance, translating findings into product and design decisions. For example, by joining our application engineers in the field to do research\nOwn customer journey and service design by mapping end-to-end customer experiences and supporting internal processes, designing repeatable hardware and software demo flows, and facilitating workflow validation with responsible teams.\nDevelop personas and manage customer insights by leading the persona lifecycle, maintaining a central research repository, providing reusable research frameworks, and synthesizing learnings collected across the organization.\nTranslate customer needs into product solutions by creating product/service blueprints, journey maps, experience maps, prototypes, and workflow diagrams, and by collaborating with Product and R&D on hardware and software recommendations.\nValidate and measure customer experience outcomes by testing whether features meet defined user needs and success criteria before and and reporting impact to stakeholders.\nProvide cross-functional CX leadership by partnering with Product Management, System Engineering, Product Ownership, Sales, Business Development, Application Engineering, Support, and Marketing to priorities development, reduce product risk, and advance user-centered practices within the Underwater Security team.\nShape and propose enhancements and collaborate with product managers to ensure enhancements align with business objectives.\nRequirements\nMaster’s degree in engineering or design, or equivalent experience.\n5+ years of experience in Customer / User Experience Research, with a proven track record of conducting research in technical fields, preferably in defense, or similar industries.\nStrong understanding of both hardware and software products, particularly in complex and regulated environments, e.g., industrial environments.\nProficiency in qualitative and quantitative research methods and tools, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.\nExcellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of conveying research findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nDemonstrated critical thinking, adaptability to challenges, and a problem-solving mindset to creatively address user pain points.\nProficiency in industry standard tooling for user experience research and visualization such as Jira Product Discovery, Dovetail, Miro, Figma\nWillingness to travel and do field research.\nDrivers’ license B (or international equivalent)\nNice to Have\nExperience in defense industry or another industrial high-tech / high compliance environment\nExperience in design leadership, system architecture, and design quality management\nProficiency in Dutch language is a plus\nSecurity screening\nYou'll be working with clients in the defense and security sectors, obtaining a Certificate of No Objection issued by the AIVD (Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service) is mandatory. 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