Senior Strategic Designer
BCG Digital VenturesLondonUpdate time: January 29,2020
Job Description
We’re BCG Digital Ventures. Welcome.
We are an ever-growing global team of the world’s most remarkable entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, venture architects, product experts and
investors. Our ventures create a strategic advantage for the most important global companies.
This is BCG Digital Ventures. Adventure awaits you...
Introducing our Venture Design Team:
Are you up for the adventure of a lifetime? Our Venture Design Team is where the magic happens. It’s where ideas are hatched and ventures that have to be seen to be believed are born. With obsessive passion, intense attention to detail and forward-thinking leadership, this crack team of innovators works at the apex of strategy, design and technology to develop compelling product concepts and service models that will impact millions of lives. They
uncover deep insights and opportunities to implement disruptive strategies
for the world’s most influential companies. They create and define
breakthrough innovations, to re-engineer businesses and launch imaginative
products, services and technologies.
As a Senior Strategic Designer, you will use your skills to:
Strategy and research
* Conduct quantitative research investigations that help strategically
frame, validate or challenge other forms of research
* Develop ethnographic research and contextual design investigations to
understand customer behaviours, pain points, needs and aspirations
* Contribute to deep trend analysis and research of interesting
exemplars in the marketplace
* Identify insights from customer research and market analysis
* Bring your research to life through personas, customer journeys,
insight-opportunity frameworks, system maps, stories and scenarios
Collaborative design and development
* Contribute unique ideas within multidisciplinary workshops, meetings
and immersion sessions.
* Using divergent design thinking techniques for the conceptual
development of products, services and/or physical connected form-
factors
* Converge innovative ideas to a set of digital and tangible products,
services and/or physical connected form-factors in partnership with
venture architects, product managers and engineering
* Communicate design ideas using techniques, including product
concepts, service models, customer journeys, industrial designs,
system maps and/or infographics
* Iteratively design, test and refine disruptive products and services
Commercialisation
* Partner with venture architects and product managers to ensure that
new ventures and business builds are set up to deliver strategic value
in line with design intent
* Observe and engage audiences within the markets of interest to test
commercialisation assumptions for audience capture and scaling
Practice development
* Contribute to the evolution of strategic design approaches throughout
BCG Digital Ventures
* Communicate insights, concepts and design rationales to internal and
external audiences
As a Strategic Designer, you will need:
* Several years prior experience in Strategic Design - through HCI,
research, industrial design or consumer psychology
* Bachelor’s degree in design, business, psychology, strategy, marketing
or another relevant field
* An outstanding portfolio of work demonstrating strong human-centered
design capabilities across a diverse range of projects
* Experience with ethnographic research (quantitative and qualitative),
divergent exploration, conceptual development and industrial design
* A background with product prototyping and testing, future visioning
and strategy development
* Experience working alongside design teams to create new product and
service concepts is a must.
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