Global Head, Digital Workplace & Employee Technology Experience - Auburn Hills
Nexteer AutomotiveAbout the role
Position: Global Head, End-User Digital Experience
About the Role:
The Global Head, End-User Experience & Digital Support is a senior leadership role defined first and foremost by a deep, genuine commitment to the people it serves. This leader is the voice of the end user within the technology organization — an empathetic champion who ensures that every interaction with technology feels intuitive, human, and empowering.
Responsible for the global end-user support organization and overall digital experience, this leader sets the standard for compassionate, high-quality service delivery across a complex, multi-site global environment. They own the end-to-end employee technology experience — spanning IT Service Management (ITSM), End User Computing (EUC), and Microsoft 365 productivity and collaboration platforms — with a relentless focus on user satisfaction, voice of the customer (VoC) feedback, and continuous experience improvement.
A defining characteristic of this leader is their role as a mentor and role model to the student employees and early-career professionals who make up a significant portion of the end-user support team. This person leads with positivity, patience, and integrity — modeling the servant-leadership behaviors that shape both great technologists and great human beings.
As a key partner to the CIO and business stakeholders, this leader bridges strategy and execution, ensuring technology investments directly enhance workforce productivity, operational agility, and — above all — the daily lived experience of every person they support.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
As a Global Head, End-User Digital Experience, you will be responsible to:
End-User Experience & Voice of the Customer (Primary Focus)
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Serve as the organization's primary advocate for the end-user — embedding voice of the customer (VoC) listening throughout every phase of service delivery and technology rollout.
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Establish and own a formal End-User Experience (EUX) framework: define satisfaction metrics, build feedback loops, and translate user insights into actionable roadmap priorities.
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Champion a "user-first" design philosophy across all technology decisions — ensuring that usability, accessibility, and simplicity are non-negotiable criteria alongside security and compliance.
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Proactively identify friction points in the employee technology experience and drive rapid resolution, using both quantitative data and qualitative listening.
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Report end-user experience trends and voice of the customer insights to the CIO and executive stakeholders, making the invisible experience visible through storytelling and data.
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Partner with HR and business leaders to understand workforce personas, needs, and pain points — ensuring technology support is designed around how real people work, not just how systems are configured.
Student & Team Leadership — Mentorship & Culture
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Lead, inspire, and actively mentor a globally distributed support team that includes student employees and early-career professionals; model exemplary leadership behaviors including empathy, accountability, positivity, and a growth mindset.
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Create a psychologically safe environment where student workers feel valued, develop professionally, and experience firsthand what outstanding customer service and technical excellence look like.
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Design structured onboarding, coaching, and recognition programs specifically tailored to student support staff — investing in their development as future IT and business leaders.
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Build a team culture centered on curiosity, kindness, continuous improvement, and pride in the quality of every user interaction.
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Foster inclusion and diverse perspectives as a foundation for innovation and team effectiveness across all geographies and levels.
IT Service Management (ITSM)
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Own global ITSM strategy, governance, and operations, including incident, problem, change, and service request management aligned to ITIL v4 principles.
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Drive the evolution from re
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