Senior Business Designer

About the role

IDEO is seeking a Senior Business Designer to help clients navigate complex business problems, translate insights into growth opportunities, and drive ideas towards real-world implementation. This role requires strong business acumen, strategic thinking, and the ability to work across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Generate new ideas, viable business models, value propositions, and go-to-market strategies for new products, services, and ventures
• Conduct market, competitive, and financial analysis to identify new and emerging opportunities
• Develop and lead experiments or pilots that produce insights to help create innovation roadmaps to scale recommendations in real-world contexts
• Facilitate client workshops and conversations that drive alignment, momentum, and strategic decisions
• Collaborate in multidisciplinary teams with designers across all creative and technical disciplines
• Translate complexity into action by developing and leading experiments or pilots that produce insights to help create innovation roadmaps to scale recommendations in real-world contexts

Requirements

• 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 analytics, business planning, go-to market, and/or growth strategy
• Strong business acumen; broad knowledge or exposure to strategy, marketing, finance, operations, product development, organizational design, etc. - MBA beneficial but not required
• Experience in business design, strategy, product management, venture building, or innovation roles
• Comfortable working in ambiguous situations with limited direction, independently shaping problem definitions and approaches
• Ability to interpret and communicate complex business ideas to different audiences, through text, visual, and verbal communications
• Track record in making ideas real and tangible, from concept to execution roadmap, as an entrepreneur and/or intrapreneur, and bringing others along with you
• Strength in synthesizing qualitative and quantitative data into clear insights, recommendations, and narratives, supporting decision making across options and making potential impact clear
• Outstanding storytelling and strategic narrative-building skills

Qualifications

• Direct experience applying human-centered design approaches, or signals of this skillset
• Leadership in bringing a new product or venture to market (0→1)
• Familiarity with tools (including AI) to accelerate thinking and workflow
• Client centricity (direct experience or signals of this skillset)
• Experience with venture building, incubation, innovation labs or product/service development
• Experience in relevant industries (financial services, healthcare, technology, manufacturing), with an understanding of complex environments such as regulation, risk, and product innovation

Skills

• Strong business acumen and strategic instincts
• Business design, strategy, product management, venture building, or innovation roles experience
• Ability to creatively problem-solve in a business context
• Interpret and communicate complex business ideas to different audiences
• Experience working across stakeholders and influencing decisions in complex organizations
• Strength in synthesizing qualitative and quantitative data into clear insights, recommendations, and narratives
• Outstanding storytelling and strategic narrative-building skills

Benefits

At IDEO, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Health Benefits: Vision, Dental, Healthcare
• Financial Benefits: 401K matching
• Family & Caregiving: Parental Leave, Adoption Assistance, Fertility Assistance, Transgender Medical Assistance, Breastmilk shipment, Back-up/Dependent Care, Pet Insurance
• Other Benefits: Flexible Work, Flexible Time Off, Paid Holidays, Annual Education Stipend, Home Office Stipend

Pay

The salary range for this role is $100,000-120,000 USD. This range is influenced by a wide range of factors considered in compensation decisions at IDEO. This includes, but is not limited to: skills, industry knowledge, and experience.

Schedule

Work on breakthrough products, ventures (0→1) and strategies across industries like health, financial services, and technology

Commitment to Diversity

IDEO is committed to the work of advancing diversity, equity and inclusion within our organization and in the world. Our purpose of having disproportionate, world-changing impact through design is directly connected to our ability to bring many different perspectives to the table. This applies to our candidates, the people we hire, the clients and customers we serve, and the communities we learn from in our research.