Design Strategy Lead - Consultant, Experience Design
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SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Senior design leader who turns ambiguous business problems into clear service/product strategies, then leads multi-disciplinary teams from discovery to pilot. Partners with Sales/Account leads on pre-sales (shaping scope, value cases, and narratives) without a quota. Coaches a small bench of designers and uplifts methods, measurement, and governance to ensure outcomes.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Strategy & Framing
- Define problems, outcomes, and value cases; translate insight into roadmaps and operating/service models.
- Create service blueprints, target experiences, and measurement plans (OKRs, KPIs, experiment design).
- Facilitate executive workshops to align scope, risks, and decision paths.
- Delivery Leadership
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- Lead engagements end-to-end (discovery → design → pilot/MVP); ensure evidence-based decisions.
- Orchestrate cross-functional teams (design, product, data/AI, engineering) and manage RAID.
- Ensure standards for accessibility, security/compliance, and change adoption are met.
- Co-shape pursuits with Sales/Account: problem framing, approach, estimation, and staffing plans.
- Build concise value narratives (business case ranges, TCO/ROI assumptions) and present to executives.
- Improve conversion and handoff quality (clear scope, success measures, kickoff readiness).
- Coach 2-4 designers; run crits, give actionable feedback, and steward career growth.
- Evolve methods, templates, and a light design system of patterns/tokens for reuse.
- Contribute POVs/case studies; mentor peers on strategy and measurement.
- Track engagement health and outcomes; report progress to leadership and clients.
- Uphold ethical, safety, and privacy considerations in research and design.
- Core Craft
- Service design & systems thinking: journey mapping, service blueprinting, operating model design.
- Business design: value trees, ROI/TCO ranges, hypothesis-driven experiments, KPI design.
- Strong facilitation and executive storytelling; excellent written/visual communication.
- Leadership
- Proven team leadership (coaching, performance feedback, light resourcing).
- Client leadership and stakeholder management across business, tech, and operations.
- Pre-sales partnership experience (scoping, estimation, proposal/orals) - non-quota.
- Delivery
- End-to-end program leadership from discovery to pilot; evidence-based decision making.
- Comfort working with enterprise platforms, data/AI partners, and engineering counterparts.
- Familiarity with change management, adoption planning, accessibility, and compliance.
- Experience
- 10-14 years in experience/service design or adjacent strategy roles; 3+ years leading teams/projects.
- Portfolio showing strategy artifacts (value cases, roadmaps, blueprints) and at least one scaled pilot.
- English fluency required; Cantonese/Mandarin a plus.
- Tools (working proficiency)
- Figma, whiteboarding (e.g., Miro), documentation (Confluence), delivery tooling (Jira); comfort with analytics dashboards.
- Nice to Have
- Exposure to industrials/logistics/shared services domains.
- GenAI/agent-assist patterns for operations or customer/service contexts.
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Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- HSA
- Short-Term Disability
Parental Benefits
- Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
- Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
- On-site/Nearby Childcare
Work Flexibility
Office Life and Perks
- Commuter Benefits Program
Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Personal/Sick Days
- Sabbatical
Financial and Retirement
- 401(K)
- Relocation Assistance
Professional Development
- Learning and Development Stipend
Diversity and Inclusion
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)