Senior Strategic Designer

**We're Building Tomorrow. BCG X is the tech build and design unit of BCG.** **Strategic Design at BCG X. Ventures** 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 this role you will**: - Conduct primary qualitative 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. - Conduct deep trend analysis and research interesting exemplars in the marketplace. - Identify behavioral patterns and opportunity areas. - Analyze research results and develop actionable insights. - Bring your research to life through personas, customer journeys, insight-opportunity frameworks, system maps, stories, scenarios, infographics, and service models. - Design and facilitate internal workshops (e.g. ideation sessions) and external workshops with multi-disciplinary teams and corporate partners. - Proof presentation and storytelling skills, including board presentations. - Converge innovative ideas to a set of digital and physical products or services in collaboration with Experience Designers, Venture Architects, Product Managers, and Engineers. - Iteratively design, test, and refine disruptive products and services. - Translate and show your understanding what research means for business ideas. - Drive the design strategy and make sure the customer perspective is the guiding principle along the whole process. **You should have**: - (Graduate) Degree in either Design, Business, Psychology, Strategy, Marketing or a related field. - Several years of relevant experience in ethnographic research, divergent exploration, concept development, and building products, gained from working in an innovation agency, startup, or tech company. - An informative portfolio of work demonstrating strong human-centered design capabilities across a diverse range of projects. - Strong interpersonal and teaming skills, empathy and willingness to work in interdisciplinary teams. - General understanding of business models and economics. - Solid slidewriting skills. - Business fluency in English - German is a plus. Any additional language is a plus. - Copywriting, branding or visual implementation skills are a plus. **BCG X is the tech build & design unit of BCG.** **Turbocharging BCG's deep industry and functional expertise, BCG X brings together advanced tech knowledge and ambitious entrepreneurship to help organizations enable innovation at scale.**: **With nearly 3,000 technologists, scientists, programmers, engineers, and human-centered designers located across 80+ cities, BCG X builds and designs platforms and software to address the world's most important challenges and opportunities.**: **Teaming across our practices, and in close collaboration with our clients, our end-to-end global team unlocks new possibilities. Together we're creating the bold and disruptive products, services, and businesses of tomorrow.**: - BCG is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law._ - After clicking "Apply", you will be asked to submit your contact details and resume/CV. To read how BCG X. Ventures GmbH processes your information, _click here_._