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Job Description

We appreciate your interest in joining BCG Digital Ventures. You are welcome to submit your interest in being considered below; we will keep you in mind once we open a role that matches the job description.

Digital Ventures is now part of BCG X, home to the world’s best tech-build and design talent.

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 builds businesses that humans love. They do that by transforming what humans value into business value. They address a myriad of business challenges that span from Future Visioning and Insights to Businesses, Products, Services and Systems as well as Marketing, Sales, Communications, Culture and Empowerment. They work to uncover the intangible attitudes, behaviors, and motivations that drive people’s choices and desires and create contextually impactful venture/business opportunities and platforms through empathetic design thinking.

Strategic Designer's will:

• Strategy and research
• Design, develop and guide ethnographic research sprints and contextual design investigations to understand customer behaviors, pain points, needs and aspirations
• Conduct quantitative research investigations that help strategically frame, validate or challenge other forms of research
• 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
• Drive the identification of relevant trends and formulation of future scenarios, implications and opportunities that are plausible and probable and challenge the status quo
• Collaborative design and development
• Contribute unique ideas within multidisciplinary workshops, meetings and immersion sessions and bring them to life through visual communication and strong written narratives leveraging your immersive, story-telling skills
• Drive the design and facilitation of co-creation sessions as well as immersive workshops (in-person as well as virtual)
• 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
• Commercialization
• Partner in a cross-disciplinary fashion with business strategists, product managers, technologists and growth architects 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
• Practice development
• Contribute to the evolution of strategic design offers and methodology 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 or another relevant field; or equivalent work experience
• Postgraduate qualification or significant experience in a relevant industry
• Significant experience with ethnographic research (quantitative and qualitative), divergent exploration, conceptual development and craft of design (industrial / graphic / behavior / HCI, etc.)
• Significant experience working in a corporate setting or for an agency driving digital transformation work.
• Outstanding portfolio of diverse range of projects and work demonstrating:
• Human centered design capabilities
• Design Thinking approach to problem solving
• Prototyping and testing skills
• Future visioning and strategy development
• Behavior design methodologies, marketing content strategy and/or operations process design

Benefits at BCGDV

At 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 new US hires must be fully vaccinated or subject to religious or medical exemptions. BCGDV will consider staff fully vaccinated two weeks after receiving the final dose of a WHO-approved COVID-19 vaccine.

BCG Digital Ventures 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.