Job Summary:
First Tech Federal Credit Union is focused on delivering enterprise solutions that simplify experiences for its members. The Senior Director of Simplification & Voice of Member will lead initiatives to enhance member and employee experiences by translating insights into actionable improvements and driving cross-functional projects that reduce friction and complexity.
Responsibilities:
• Leads enterprise-wide efforts to identify and quantify high-impact friction and translate insights into clear, innovative target state solutions that materially improve member and employee experiences and positively differentiate organizational performance.
• Drives cross-functional simplification initiatives that balance experience improvement with operational soundness, ensuring solutions are scalable, sustainable, and effective across teams, channels, and systems.
• Partners with platform, product, and technology senior leaders to embed friction-reducing solutions into frontline workflows and enterprise processes, ensuring changes are adopted and scaled.
• Applies automation, data, and AI appropriately to eliminate low-value work and enhance both employee and member experience.
• Establishes success measures for all initiatives and partners with analytics teams to deliver post-implementation realization of benefits, including increased revenue, improved member experience and behavior outcomes, efficiency gains, and reduction of recurring issues or errors.
• Shifts the organization from reactive fixes to proactive, systemic improvements that prevent friction, reduce complexity, and deliver long-term value.
• Drives the organization’s Voice of Member program, ensuring member feedback and experience signals are captured, synthesized, and used to inform prioritization and decision making.
• Obsesses over and cultivates a culture of advocacy for all member and employee-facing teams, reducing clicks and systems required to power the employee experience to provide a positively differentiated member experience.
• Transforms data-led journey mapping insights into actionable, sequenced roadmaps aligned to enterprise priorities, capacity, and expected outcomes.
• Ensures experience insights drive execution and measurable improvement, not just reporting, by embedding signal-driven decision making into workflows and delivery processes.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 8+ years of relevant experience
• 6+ years as a People Leader
• Proven ability to design, implement, and achieve measurable value from solutions that reduce friction, improve experiences, and drive operational performance
• Demonstrated ability to translate member and employee insights into prioritized, executed improvements, rather than analysis alone
• Proven experience leading cross‑functional initiatives spanning operations, technology, digital, product, and frontline teams
• Strong working knowledge of Voice of Member programs, including signal capture, insight synthesis, and closed‑loop action
• Experience remapping complex workflows across multiple enterprise platforms and systems, with the ability to apply automation and AI where appropriate
• Experience in financial services, credit unions, or other regulated industries
• Familiarity with journey mapping, service blueprinting, and experience design methodologies that drive measurable outcomes
• Experience overseeing complex member issues or complaint resolution, with emphasis on root‑cause elimination and systemic improvement
• Strong operational and financial acumen, with the ability to link efforts to efficiency, risk reduction, and long‑term value
• Bachelor's degree in field relevant to role (or 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree)
Preferred:
• Advanced degree preferred.
Company:
First Tech Federal Credit Union is an Oregon-based investment bank that focuses on technology-driven companies. Founded in 1952, the company is headquartered in Beaverton, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.