Senior Manager- Experience & Service Design

Job OverviewThe Senior Manager – Experience and Service Design leads the end-to-end design of guest experiences across Miral Destinations. This role bridges experience strategy, innovation, and technical service design to ensure guest journeys are both inspiring and operationally executable. It integrates the guest perspective (frontstage) with operational delivery systems (backstage), producing clear, evidence-based blueprints that guide cross-functional transformation. The role champions creativity and experience innovation, translating insights into future-ready concepts that balance emotional impact with operational feasibility. Working across teams including Insights, Digital, Operations, and Business Analysis, the Senior Manager transforms ideas into scalable, efficient service systems that deliver memorable, seamless guest experiences.Job ScopeGuest Experience and Journey Design:Translate customer insights and qualitative research into holistic journey maps across all touchpoints.Identify pain points, emotional highs and lows, and opportunity areas to enhance guest satisfaction and efficiency.Define the experience intent for each journey stage and create target-state experience concepts aligned with Miral’s GX principles.Facilitate co-creation workshops and ideation sessions to generate innovative experience concepts.Service Design and Experience Enablement:Lead the development of service blueprints that connect frontstage guest actions with backstage processes, systems, and enablers.Define operational and system requirements necessary to deliver designed experiences, ensuring technical feasibility and alignment with operational capacity.Visualize and document service layers (people, process, technology, policy) across touchpoints to ensure seamless execution.Collaborate with process owners to identify service dependencies, handovers, and cross-functional interactions.Bridge the gap between conceptual experience design and detailed BA-level process mapping by defining the ‘experience enablement’ layer.Service Ecosystem and Governance:Create reusable frameworks and standards for consistent service blueprinting and delivery across all assets.Map service ecosystems and supporting infrastructure to show how various departments, systems, and partners contribute to guest experiences.Ensure new or enhanced assets follow an Experience First, Future Ready design approach.Establish review and governance protocols to integrate service design sign-offs in development and transformation projects.Collaboration and Capability BuildingWork closely with various internal stakeholders including Insights, Strategy, Operations, Digital, and Assets to ensure blueprints are both guest-led and feasible.Strong stakeholder engagement and management with external partners including IPs, destination assets and tenant owners.Partner with Business Analysts for detailed process mapping, ensuring traceability from guest journey to operational process.Coach teams in design thinking, journey mapping, and blueprinting to uplift organizational design capability.Foster a culture of collaboration, creativity, and evidence-based decision-making.Measurement and Continuous Improvement:Define key metrics for evaluating journey and service design success (e.g., NPS, CES, throughput efficiency, error reduction).Incorporate guest feedback loops and operational performance data to iterate designs.Continuously benchmark against industry best practices and emerging experience technologiesJob EssentialBachelor's or Master's degree in Service Design, User Experience (UX) Design, Design Thinking, or a related field.Proven experience (5+ years) in service and experience designProficiency in design thinking methodologies, customer journey mapping, and service blueprinting.Experience with large scale and multi-asset journey mapping and service design.Ability to articulate frontstage/backstage interactions and translate them into actionable service specifications.Strong understanding of end-to-end service architecture, from guest-facing systems to internal enablers.Skilled in design facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and cross-functional collaboration.Proficiency in journey design tools such as CemanticaExcellent written and visual communication skills for executive-level storytelling.Experience in integrating digital and physical experience layers within service blueprints.Experience with emerging guest experience technologies