Strategy Director - Part Time - Temporary

About the role

Gensler is a global design firm committed to holistically improving the human experience. Guided by determined optimism, we use the power of design to spark positive change and create futures that promote equity, resilience, and wellbeing for everyone. Design Strategy at Gensler is a multi-disciplinary practice focused on enabling transformation – our creative and collaborative approach, supported by data and research, enables impactful change and evolution of our clients' organization, culture, and environment. Gensler's value is rendered optimally when a client faces disruption. We reveal the conditions of their business, culture, and environment, and work with them to design an unexpected solution with real impact. Our clients span a variety of industries across the sectors of workplace, healthcare, hospitality, entertainment, education, retail, public and community. Our services provide a broad range of innovation expertise including the inventing and implementing of futures; the design and building of capability; the assessment and activation of culture; and the planning and adoption of specialty spaces for innovation. We are looking for an established Strategy Director to join this group of creative entrepreneurs. Our passion as a collective is to unlock the potential in all of us. We ask that you are curious, authentic, agile, strategic, design savvy and detail oriented. You are ideally energized about being a leader in the acceleration of bringing Gensler's full value and potential to market.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the strategic direction for a project and have final authority in determining the strategic approach, scope, and project deliverables
• Inspire strategy teams and effectively connect experts as needed
• Encourage and support original thinking
• Guide teams as they collect quantitative data and qualitative feedback from user research
• Develop creative design concepts that illustrate options of how client organizations can be supported through performance enhancing workplace strategies
• Manage synthesis of information and the impact on innovation strategies, business goals, organizational culture, and/or performance criteria for spatial design
• Oversee development of powerful communication tools that help clients to visualize and understand the tradeoffs associated with various futures, and strategic organizational/design scenarios
• Interface with Gensler design studios when projects have a place-based element to ensure the seamless transition of design strategy into the design implementation phase