Lead 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.

**As a Lead Strategic Designer, your responsibilities will be**:
**Lead multidisciplinary teams**
- Lead and collaborate with multidisciplinary team members to scope, design, concept test and deliver innovative solutions
- Assist with the development of business cases and operating plans
- Develop materials to communicate progress to partners and clients
- The ability to ensure the confidentiality of sensitive information and thrive in a fast-paced, intellectually-demanding and service-oriented environment
- The ability to manage time and schedules to meet aggressive deadlines and influence through persuasive written and verbal communication.

**Lead strategy and research**
- Lead the design strategy and make sure the human (people and customer) perspective is the guiding principle along the whole process
- Design, develop and guide quantitative and qualitative research and contextual design investigations to understand customer behaviours, pain points, needs and aspirations
- Drive future visioning by curating relevant insights, trends and signals to formulate future scenarios, implications and opportunities that are plausible and probable and challenge the status quo
- Derive insights from creative synthesis of customer research, market analysis and future visioning

**Commercialisation**
- Align with technologists and business stakeholders to understand business and operating models, as well as the systems and capabilities needed to deliver products and services
- Contribute to the sizing of value opportunities and the creation of value cases
- 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

**Practice development**
- Contribute to the evolution of strategic design approaches throughout BCG X
- Lead the evolution of strategic design approaches throughout BCG X
- Communicate insights, concepts and design rationales to internal and external audiences
- Contribute to the development of thought leadership across a range of emerging business, technology and design topics

**As a Lead Strategic Designer, you will need**:

- 8+ years of relevant work experience
- C2 Level of German is a plus
- Outstanding portfolio of diverse range of projects and work demonstrating:

- Human centered design capabilities
- Design thinking + agile experimentation approach to problem solving
- Future visioning and strategy development
- Creative synthesis and storytelling skills
- Experience leading qualitative (ethnographic) and quantitative research, divergent exploration, conceptual development, design strategy and the craft of design (whether industrial / behavioural / HCI / digital products / visual / motion, etc.)
- Track record delivering tangible products to market, with at least 5+ years leading creative projects to successful completion
- Experience in behaviour design methodologies, marketing content strategy and/or operations process design, data + hybrid quant/qual skills is a plus
- Experience working in a corporate setting, in-house for a digital product company, in an agency driving digital transformation work, or a combination of the above
- Bachelor’s degree in design, business, psychology, strategy, marketing or another relevant field

**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.**:

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