Strategic Designer

BCGDV

Sydney, Australia

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

At BCG X. Ventures (formerly BCG Digital Ventures) we apply an end-to-end approach to build and launch standalone and new core businesses. We turn differentiated assets into strategic advantages that unlock growth, building everything needed—products and technology, business models and go-to-market strategies, and operations and organization foundations—to launch these projects at speed.

Strategic Design at BCG X

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, your responsibilities will be: 

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 behaviors, 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, insight-opportunity 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-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

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

As a Strategic Designer, you will need:

Bachelor’s degree in design, business, psychology, strategy, marketing or another relevant field
An outstanding portfolio of work demonstrating strong human-centered 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

Your life at BCG X

Coaching culture with 360° feedback (Growth & Impact cycles)
Relocation support
20 days of vacation and sabbatical option
4 weeks work from anywhere - globally
$2000 annual flex allowance

To learn more, visit us at,https://bcg.com/x,

Interested applicants may apply through the careers section of the website athttps://careers.bcg.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. 

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.