Senior Business Designer

The role

A Senior Business Designer will frame complex business problems and translate insights into growth opportunities. You will build business models, strategies, and pathways to bring new products, services, and ventures to market.

What you will do

• Generate new ideas, viable business models, value propositions and go-to-market strategies
• Partner with clients to drive change and innovation within their teams and organizations
• Conduct market, competitive, and financial analysis
• Synthesize research, data, and insights into clear narratives
• Develop and lead experiments or pilots to create innovation roadmaps
• Collaborate in multidisciplinary teams with designers
• Facilitate client workshops and conversations
• Upskill the Business Design craft through knowledge sharing

Required qualifications

• A minimum of 4 years of full-time working experience in strategy consulting, venture design, product strategy, product management, product innovation, corporate strategy, business insights, business a
• Strong business acumen in strategy, marketing, finance, operations, product development, or organizational design
• Experience in business design, strategy, product management, venture building, or innovation roles
• Ability to creatively problem-solve in a business context
• Comfort working in ambiguous situations with limited direction
• Ability to interpret and communicate complex business ideas to different audiences
• Experience working across stakeholders and influencing decisions in complex organization
• Track record in making ideas real and tangible from concept to execution roadmap
• Strength in synthesizing qualitative and quantitative data into clear insights, recommendations and narratives
• Strong storytelling and strategic narrative-building skills

Nice to have

• MBA beneficial but not required
• Direct experience applying human-centered design approaches
• Leadership in bringing a new product or venture to market (0→1)
• Familiarity with tools (including AI) to accelerate thinking and workflow
• Client centricity
• Experience with venture building, incubation, innovation labs or product/service development
• Experience in relevant industries (financial services, healthcare, technology, manufacturing)

Benefits

• Vision
• Dental
• Healthcare
• 401K matching
• Parental Leave
• Adoption Assistance
• Fertility Assistance
• Transgender Medical Assistance
• Breastmilk shipment
• Back-up/Dependent Care
• Pet Insurance
• Flexible Work

About the company

IDEO helps clients move forward when the path isn't clear, whether driven by ambition, responding to disruption, or breaking out of entrenched ways of working.