Eaton’s Bussmann Division is currently seeking a Design Thinking Practitioner to join our team. This position is based at our Ellisville, MO location.

Position Overview:

 

As a Design Thinking Practitioner, you will be a member of the User Experience Team and play a role in this work by leading the charge to train product teams around the world and bring design transformation throughout the company – always firmly grounded by Human-Centered Design principles.

 

Making what matters work at Eaton takes the passion of every employee around the world. We create an environment where creativity, invention and discovery become reality, each and every day. It’s where bold, bright professionals like you can reach your full potential—and where you can help us reach ours.

 

In this function you will:

 

• Partner with product and user experience designers to craft and facilitate world-class design thinking exercises and workshops across multiple product applications, functions, and industries around the world.
• Manage the end-to-end experience of workshops including discovery, planning, logistics, delivery, documentation, and synthesis
• Champion design thinking and world-class workshops that are both intentionally and dynamically designed, teaching and sharing your expertise internally and externally
• Inspire your workshop participants, seamlessly leading them through design methodologies that ladder up to strategic solutions. Navigate challenges and pivot when necessary, keeping groups on track along the way
• Synthesize insights from workshops, helping to create strategic deliverables for clients
• Build strong, collaborative partnerships with clients and teams to help drive business solutions
• Develop workshop training materials that can be reused and tailored for new workshops.
• Develop strategic partnerships and execute the strategy to scale design thinking education throughout the company.

 

When we embrace the different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds that make each of us unique, we — as individuals and as a company — are stronger.

Qualifications

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

• Bachelors' degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum 2 years of experience with design thinking efforts or improvement projects.
• Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future
• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position.  Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of Ellisville, MO will be considered.  Active Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.

 

Preferred qualifications:

 

• Bachelors' degree in Design
• Experience facilitating Design Thinking or Human Centered Design workshops.
• Experience with Power BI
• Experience using SAP
• Experience leading Design Thinking Efforts/Improvement Projects
• Experience Creating designs for a wide variety of product experience.

 

Position Criteria:

 

• Ability to travel up to 10%
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a matrix environment, get results and drive change through others.
• Effective oral and written communication skills as well as planning and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage by influence through solid relationships and process focus

 

We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.

 

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We make what matters work. Everywhere you look—from the technology and machinery that surrounds us, to the critical services and infrastructure that we depend on every day—you’ll find one thing in common. It all relies on power. That’s why Eaton is dedicated to improving people’s lives and the environment with power management technologies that are more reliable, efficient, safe and sustainable. Because this is what matters.

We are confident we can deliver on this promise because of the attributes that our employees embody. We’re ethical, passionate, accountable, efficient, transparent and we’re committed to learning. These values enable us to tackle some of the toughest challenges on the planet, never losing sight of what matters.

Job: Engineering

Region: North America – US/Puerto Rico
Organization: EPG CPD UL Bussmann

Job Level: Individual Contributor
Schedule: Full-time
Is remote work (i.e. working from home or another Eaton facility) allowed for this position?: No
Does this position offer relocation?: No
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time