Senior Strategist: Product / Experience Design

Job description:

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

frog is a leading global creative consultancy, part of Capgemini Invent

We challenge the status quo to craft and build transformative human experiences that win hearts and move markets.

Partnering with passionate leaders and visionary entrepreneurs, we apply creativity, strategy, design and data to re-invent businesses, drive growth and orchestrate customer centric transformation.

Together we strive to shape a regenerative future that is both sustainable and inclusive for businesses, people and planet.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

As a Senior Strategist, you will collaborate with designers, technologists, and program managers to envision and create new products, services, and experiences. You will work across every stage of the product development lifecycle to ensure that the concepts and design decisions are sensitive to both the needs of users and our clients’ businesses. You will be especially involved at the earliest stages of projects where we conduct research to understand user needs and develop ideas for new experiences. You will formulate clear hypotheses or approaches based on ambiguous information, then later validate these hypotheses in collaboration with the design team. You should be eager to involve clients in the design process, be highly responsive to feedback, and excited to present the team’s ideas in front of executives.

You will receive warm and robust support from frog strategy leadership, but you will often be the only strategist on your team. You should be comfortable working independently and able to make thoughtful decisions with limited information. You should be able to take the next key steps while simultaneously considering the broader context of the engagement, the client’s business, and the world. In this role you will play a key role in:

·Synthesizing market research with insights on opportunities, forming quickly POV on market dynamics, competitors, and white spaces.

·Developing financial analysis and strategic assessments of client’s existing operations.

·Owning design and planning of qual and quant research, conducting interviews, and developing insights from research.

·Owning execution of commercial sizing models across strategy, opportunity areas, concepts, and solution phases; proficient with different business model types (product, services, subscription, etc.)

Required Skills:

You should have experience and a proven ability to think commercially, strategically, and creatively.

Our ideal candidate has the following characteristics:

·       Creative problem solving. A lateral thinker adept at uncovering the themes and critical pieces of information that can spark game-changing innovations, with an intuitive ability for identify gaps in markets and develop new markets in those gaps.

·       World-Class Presentation Skills. You would be interacting on a regular basis with senior executives and should therefore demonstrate the ability to construct and deliver inspiring and convincing arguments verbally as well as on paper.

·       Contagious Positive Passion. You should get excited by big transformational ideas and be able to infectiously stoke the fires of those around you. You don’t accept the world as you find it but strive to improve it.

·       Experience: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (or equivalent).  An MBA or at least 3+ years of experience working in the field of innovation, strategy development or financial analysis

Life at Capgemini

Capgemini supports all aspects of your well-being throughout the changing stages of your life and career. For eligible employees, we offer:

• Flexible work
• Healthcare including dental, vision, mental health, and well-being programs
• Financial well-being programs such as 401(k) and Employee Share Ownership Plan
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Family building benefits like adoption assistance, surrogacy, and cryopreservation
• Social well-being benefits like subsidized back-up child/elder care and tutoring
• Mentoring, coaching and learning programs
• Employee Resource Groups
• Disaster Relief

About Capgemini Invent

As the digital innovation, design and transformation brand of the Capgemini Group, Capgemini Invent enables CxOs to envision and shape the future of their businesses. Located in more than 36 offices and 37 creative studios around the world, it comprises a 10,000+ strong team of strategists, data scientists, product and experience designers, brand experts and technologists who develop new digital services, products, experiences and business models for sustainable growth.

Capgemini Invent is an integral part of Capgemini, a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.

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Disclaimer

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