Strategist (4 day weeks!)

We're working with an amazing design consultancy with clients around the globe from startups, scale-ups and large multinationals, from sustainable brands to travel and fintech.

You will be joining strategists who are experienced practitioners with a strong command of strategic principles, human centred design methodologies and collaborative problem solving techniques.

Responsibilities;

Critical Thinking

Work to understand and frame the project's desired outcome and business KPIs, to help ensure that any solutions designed positively impact clients business

Have a good working understanding of common strategic frameworks and able to use these methods to aid in complexity reduction, concept generation and problem framing

Human Centred Design

Have a working knowledge of Human Centred Design methods and tools, and be comfortable conducting requirements gathering, defining business/user process flows, ideation and collaborative workshops

Collaborate with UX resources to develop personas, user profiles, user needs and test scenarios

Commercial Awareness

Experience with product or feature planning and prioritisation, including a working knowledge of differing prioritisation methodologies

Research and Analysis

Conduct primary and secondary research (both fieldwork and desk based)

Ability to extract and synthesis insights from data or research, and consolidate findings into understandable formats

Help to create experience/content audits and heuristic evaluations

Ways of Working

Lead, brief and oversee work quality of more junior team members

Take an active interest in your own career and skills development, seeking opportunities to learn new techniques and training in new tools and technologies

Our ideal candidate is going to have min of 4 years experience working in an agency for blue chip clients or client side and proven strategy skills. We'd like to see demonstrable experience in facilitating workshops, planning, running and delivering primary and secondary research. Ideally you will be able to conduct user profiling and user needs analysis and comfortable eliciting and defining business/user process flows and requirements.

Benefits are super attractive!

Challenging, career-defining projects that span service innovation to design delivery

4-day work week - Yes!

Unlimited holiday

A class-leading benefits package (pension, healthcare, health care, cash support, etc.)

Annual retreat (Madrid, Annecy, Oslo, Paris and Berlin are all previous locations)

Working with good people who care about you and your success.