Sr. Design Strategist III

Sr. Design Strategist III

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Location: New York City, NY
Salary: Competitive
Description: The Judge Group is partnered with a well-known global health and wellness company that is currently seeking a Sr. Design Strategist III in the NY City area. This is a long term position with the potential to become permanent. It is currently 100% remote, but may require a partial onsite option in the future. The position offers great pay and also includes full benefits.

For immediate consideration, qualified candidates can email their resume directly to

Candidate Profile

You will be partnering with the innovation team to leverage the power of design and design thinking to drive sustainable growth and value. This new partnership for design will allow us to co-create new products, services, business models, and uncover "where to play" to enable innovation across the business.

You are both empathic and focused - with an analytical ability to take a complicated problem and transform it into an opportunity for creative solutions and new business models. As a member of the innovation team, you will work on projects at the forefront of creating new, care-centered experiences across all of the company's business sectors.

You possess a real passion for strategy, lean innovation, and proof of concept consumer research methods in healthcare and wellbeing. You are comfortable with ambiguity, leading teams in synthesis activities and conceptualizing future states.

As a collaborator, you have the ability to engage with a wide range of partners successfully. As a strategic talent, you have an ability to synthesize disparate inputs into actionable frameworks, strategies and designs that answer key business questions.

You are a self-starter and a confident leader who can represent the Design Studio on a cross-functional team, guiding it to deliver intelligent, thoughtful, people-centered solutions.

This job will have the following responsibilities:

• You will scope, plan and conduct primary, secondary and analogous research
• You will lead teams in strategy and synthesis: that is, building insights, reframing problems, and generating and iterating on new solutions or new business models
• You will explore and analyze market trends, consumer behaviors and category futures, identifying industry 'next practices'
• Your work with teams might include developing metrics for new solutions, including return on investment (ROI), return on innovation (ROI), and key performance indicators (KPIs)
• You will prepare and co-facilitate workshops for large multi-disciplinary groups and projects
• You will tell persuasive stories, using whatever media/tools appropriate to communicate insights, frameworks, ecosystem-level solutions, new business models and their implications
• You will create project deliverables: pitch decks with business cases, project briefs, insights presentations, prototypes and other appropriate materials
• You will bridge design and business disciplines, evaluating and gauging appropriate risks and future opportunities.

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Business, Innovation or related field; a graduate degree is preferred
• 7+ years of design leadership-related experience is required among any of the following:
• Strategy consulting
• Venture strategy or corporate development
• Startups or Big Tech
• Digital Strategy (web, mobile, wearables, data)

• Deep subject matter expertise in design, new ventures, product development and health is recommended
• Ability to inspire, persuade, grow, and lead project teams
• Strong facilitation skills are required to engage a variety of stakeholders in the design process
• Demonstrated ability to manage complexity successfully, e.g., work experience with complex projects where you are able to show your role and impact
• Systems approach to design and value creation, with exhibited ability to identify relevant assumptions and to model value, potential ROI, etc.
• Strong candidates will demonstrate excellence in any one (or combination) of the following skills:
• Synthesis / Workshop design / Facilitation
• Business modeling / business strategy
• New venture experience, including MVP launches

Contact:

This job and many more are available through The Judge Group. Find us on the web at www.judge.com