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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.
Strategic Design at BCGDV
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:
- Design and facilitate immersion sessions with multi-disciplinary client teams
- Use 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
- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure that product development and delivery is consistent with strategic and consumer insights
- 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
- Develop a localized strategic design team through proactive identification of viable candidates in partnership with BCGDV recruiting
- Lead the evolution of strategic design approaches throughout BCG Digital Ventures
- Contribute to business development, and demonstrate leadership in planning and scoping design’s contributions within innovation and incubation projects
- Communicate insights, concepts and design rationales to internal and external audiences
- Create intellectual property and points of view, as well as industry and topic platforms
- Contribute to the development of thought leadership across a range of emerging business, technology and design topics
- Build relationships regionally and globally to spread DV functional insights
- Established reputation for external & internal knowledge sharing e.g. speaking engagements, publishing, etc.
- Lead and guide functional teams across multiple ventures; or owning and driving functional domain on complex ventures
You should have:- Bachelor’s degree in design, business, psychology, strategy, marketing or another relevant field
- Postgraduate qualification or significant experience in a relevant industry
- Significant track record shaping real-world user experiences and delivering tangible products to market, with at least 10 years serving in creative leadership roles
- Outstanding portfolio of work demonstrating strong human-centered design capabilities across a diverse range of projects
- Recognition as a thought leader driving best practices in ethnographic research (quantitative and qualitative), divergent exploration, conceptual development and industrial design
- Background with product prototyping and testing, future visioning and strategy development
Benefits at BCGDVAt BCG Digital Ventures we are committed to offering a competitive compensation package and benefits that contribute to our employee’s quality of life. We offer a base salary, annual bonus, and fully vested retirement plan with annual contributions. We pay the full cost of medical, dental, and vision coverage for our employees and their eligible loved ones. We offer reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities and paid time off including vacation, 12 paid holidays, unlimited personal days off, and sick time.
Diversity & Inclusion at BCGDV
BCG Digital Ventures facilitates a sense of belonging where all employees, particularly those historically at the margins of society, can unapologetically bring authenticity to their work.
To learn more, visit us at bcgdv.com
Interested applicants may apply through the careers section of the website at https://www.bcgdv.com/. Interviews will take place after resumes have been screened for minimum requirements. Please note that this position is not restricted solely to the responsibilities listed above and that the job scope and responsibilities are subject to change. 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. Candidates should be aware that BCG currently maintains a policy requiring all US & Canada based employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Newly hired employees must be fully vaccinated prior to their employment start date. BCG is an equal opportunity employer and will provide a reasonable accommodation to those unable to be vaccinated for medical or religious reasons where it is not an undue hardship to the company to do so as provided under applicable federal, state, provincial and local law.