Strategic Design - London, United Kingdom - BCG Digital Ventures

BCG Digital Ventures
BCG Digital Ventures
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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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We're Building Tomorrow. BCG X is the tech build and design unit of BCG.

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We appreciate your interest in joining BCG X. Ventures (formerly BCG Digital Ventures).


Please note:
this is not a job posting.

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.


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 Strategic Designer, you will use your skills to

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Strategy and research

  • 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 behaviours, 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, insightopportunity frameworks, system maps, stories and scenarios

Collaborative design and development

  • 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
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  • Converge innovative ideas to a set of digital and tangible products, services and/or physical connected formfactors 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

Commercialisation

  • 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 commercialisation assumptions for audience capture and scaling

Practice development

  • Contribute to the evolution of strategic design approaches throughout BCG Digital Ventures
  • Communicate insights, concepts and design rationales to internal and external audiences

As a Strategic Designer, you will need

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  • Several years prior experience in Strategic Design through HCI, research, industrial design or consumer psychology
  • Bachelor's degree in design, business, psychology, strategy, marketing or another relevant field
  • An outstanding portfolio of work demonstrating strong humancentered design capabilities across a diverse range of projects
  • 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
  • Experience working alongside design teams to create new product and service concepts is a must.

BCG X is the tech build & design unit of BCG.

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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.

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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.

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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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  • 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._
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