Senior Strategic Designer

ABOUT US

The Innovation & Design (I&D) team is pioneering Bains firmwide efforts to meet unprecedented client demand for digital innovation new business building product & service solutions to drive new growth.

I&D brings together a diverse mix of Innovation Consultants Strategic Designers Product Managers and Tech specialists to ensure that we are supporting our clients throughout their digital transformation and innovation journey. Together we create bold new ventures radically improve customer experiences driving commercial growth

with our clients by embracing digital innovation and new ways of working.

Common stages of work include:

• Discovery: Help clients understand the business user and technology landscape. Identify priorities and assess risks to generate a transformative path forward.
• Ideation: Use design principles to guide ideation continue to refine priorities and focus on highest potential opportunities.
• Design and Validate: Create concept experiences and value propositions for products/services based on deep user ethnography to bring an idea to life whilst also testing customer desirability commercial viability and tech feasibility.
• Create and Launch: Build experiences products services and launch fullscale new businesses/business models
• Scale: Drive commercial growth of the corporate startup product or service.

We work with our clients to fully understand the impact of digital on their business and set priorities that will transform their vision into value creation and help them create new innovative businesses.

WHERE YOULL FIT WITHIN THE TEAM

Working within I&D as a designer provides an unparalleled opportunity to work on big impactful challenges for leading brands and businesses and to experience and learn in multidisciplinary teams working alongside management consultants data scientists and engineers on multiple different types of projects and industries.

Strategic Designers are experts in discovering and defining the right opportunities for users and businesses. They apply Design Thinking processes to reframe business and organizational problems around the collective needs of users. Strategic Designers bring deep expertise in design research and concepts translating insights into innovation and business growth opportunities.

WHAT YOULL DO

• Lead the full strategic design process hands on to transform customer insights into impactful opportunities for growth
  • Lead qualitative research and synthesize learnings from both qualitative and quantitative sources into actionable insights and tangible artifacts (e.g. personas customer journey maps opportunity maps)
  • Cofacilitate ideation workshops and creative sessions
  • Envision and conceptualize new business ideas and services with gamechanging potential and bring them to life through creative storytelling
  • Iteratively design and refine solutions through low to highfidelity prototyping
  • Design and run experiments and pilots to validate/evaluate new products services or businesses
• Work closely with project management to support crossfunctional process management and project delivery and ensure that I&D delivers successfully
  • Help ensure that I&D is successful at delivering high impact results
  • Own an endtoend deliverable and work with the supervisor to drive workstream success; help identify prioritize and execute on highest value add activities
  • Consistently help build alignment on project priorities and backlog; enable seamless relationship with multidisciplinary project team e.g. management consultants data scientists engineers etc.
  • Effectively collaborate with cocreate with and influence multiple stakeholders (project team client team experts outside partners)
• Help to bring Bain to the next level as a business
  • Enhance I&D brand through support of external marketing activities
  • Play an active role in the recruitment of new design talent across EMEA and in our growing team in Dubai in particular
  • Build the I&D knowledge base by capturing learnings from client engagements
  • Teach and transfer knowledge expertise and capabilities to Bain teams and client teams
  • Serve as a mentor and coach for more junior members of the (design) team
  • Contribute to I&D culture creation and take on team office or firm initiatives as part of the EMEA I&D team

ABOUT YOU

• 23 years of handson experience shaping digital products services and/or new ventures (or equivalent experience) in roles such as Service Designer Value Proposition/ Business Designer or CX Designer etc.
• A thorough understanding of Design Thinking and Agile methods
• Skillset expertise focused on strategic design research UX UX/UI service design or digital product design
• Comfort with and passion for all parts of the design process from earlystage insights gathering to strategy definition concepting and prototyping
• Fluency in working with state of collaboration and prototyping tools (e.g. Figma Miro Webflow Adobe CS) exposure to GenAI Design tools
• Excellent communication presentation and collaboration skills
• A highly ambitious and entrepreneurial spirit with the ability to thrive in a dynamic and fastpaced environment comfortable with ambiguity
• This role requires some travel in region up to 40% travel to clients across Middle East/ EMEA
• Fluency in Arabic and English is a mandatory requirement

An ideal candidate will also have:

• Experience working on Middle Eastbased projects and a good understanding of cultural design norms in the region
• Experience working in a client services environment
• An understanding of business strategy
• Passion for about expanding Service Design practice and emerging industry trends e.g. GenAI behavioural design immersive experience etc.

If this sounds like you please apply with your CV and a current portfolio displaying a record of your experience in developing concepts and designing products and services.

WHAT MAKES US A GREAT PLACE TO WORK

Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the worlds most ambitious change makers define the future.

Across 65 cities in 40 countries we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results outperform the competition and redefine industries. We complement our tailored integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better faster and more enduring outcomes. Our 10year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent expertise and insight to organizations tackling todays urgent challenges in education racial equity social justice economic development and the environment. We earned a platinum rating from Eco Vadis the leading platform for environmental social and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains putting us in the top 1% of all companies. Since our founding in 1973 we have measured our success by the success of our clients and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.

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