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. Our mission is to invent, launch, scale and invest in game-changing businesses with the world’s most influential corporations. 

 

Adventure awaits you…

 

We are shaping the next generation of startups, and we’re looking for the brightest minds in the business to help us. Our world-class, multidisciplinary team will challenge you to push the boundaries of the industry. If you have the passion, tenacity, and curiosity to build innovative businesses from the ground up, we invite you to join our mission.

 

Our strategic design team develops transformative solutions informed by deep consumer research and insight. They work to uncover the intangible attitudes, behaviors,  and motivations that drive people’s choices and desires. By identifying key consumer pain points, our strategic designers can create contextually impactful venture opportunities and platforms through empathetic design thinking.

 

In your role you will...

• 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 behaviors, 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
• 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 
• 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 commercialization assumptions for audience capture and scaling
• Contribute to the evolution of strategic design approaches throughout BCG Digital Ventures
• Communicate insights, concepts and design rationales to internal and external audiences

You should have...

• Bachelor’s degree in design, business, psychology, strategy, marketing, relevant fields, or equivalent practical experience
• Postgraduate qualification or significant experience in a relevant industry
• 3+ years of hands on management of teams
• An outstanding portfolio of work demonstrating strong human-centered design capabilities across a diverse range of projects
• Significant 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 
• Strong experience working directly with and influencing clients, as well as moderating workshops with and for clients