US/C 2022 Platinion Lead/Principal Experience Designer

Location:

Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Seattle

Geography:

North America

Capabilities:

Technology & digital

Industries:

Technology industries

Who We Are

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact.

Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, fueled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place.

BCG Platinion

As a seamlessly integrated part of the BCG network, we provide consulting services focused on the development and implementation of business-critical IT architecture and digital solutions. We create technology platforms and deliver exceptionally customized solutions of the future for our clients, from data strategies to next-generation customer journey solutions and transformational business models. We solve the most daunting challenges that companies face today and envision for tomorrow. Our style is entrepreneurial – nimble and innovative, with multifaceted, cross-functional teams and completely vendor-independent. Our unique selling proposition is technology expertise and delivery excellence.

Platinion was founded in 2000. Since then, we have grown continuously and successfully. Today we have offices in Europe, North and South America, Asia Pacific and Africa.

Practice Area Profile

BCG Platinion’s presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America. We achieve digital excellence for clients with sustained solutions to the most complex and time-sensitive challenge. We guide clients into the future to push the status quo, overcome tech limitations, and enable our clients to go further in their digital journeys than what has ever been possible in the past. At BCG Platinion, we deliver business value through the innovative use of technology at a rapid pace. We roll up our sleeves to transform business, revolutionize approaches, satisfy customers, and change the game through Architecture, Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Application and Risk functions. We balance vision with a pragmatic path to change transforming strategies into leading-edge tech platforms, at scale.

What You'll Do

At BCG Platinion, we’re bringing design to the front line of business challenges, creating work that solves problems in novel, feasible, and desirable ways. We are looking for someone passionate about owning every detail of the UI for digital products- from interactions and motion to fonts and grids- and thinks in terms of design systems. If your strengths lean towards ethnography or information architecture, see our other listings, because this isn't quite right for you.

Lead/Principal Experience Designers at BCG Platinion are:

Flexible and user-focused. They have the ability to design in multiple mediums and levels of interactivity, all while employing appropriate human-centered design methods.
Visual exceptional. They are highly skilled in creating and critiquing, because they believe that emotion and presentation matter equally as much as usability.
Iterative. They are excited to prototype at all levels of fidelity—and have the humility to walk away from ideas when they fail.
Collaborative. They have the ability and enthusiasm to work with researchers, engineers, business consultants, and other designers who will challenge and support one another.
Communicators. They have strong verbal, written, and presentation skills, and the ability to provide the rationale behind their design decisions to colleagues and clients.
Empathetic. They desire to truly understand humans and their behavior—and turn complex tasks into intuitive, easy-to-use solutions.
Architectural thinkers. They are not only able to understand and visualize complex systems, but work with engineers and systems architects to design solutions that will last.
Comfortable with ambiguity. They know projects and businesses move fast. That means the path forward isn’t always well-defined. They are comfortable and collaborative through our process.
Leaders. They lead mid-sized to large projects, manage client relationships, writing and publishing thought leadership documents.

You’re Good At:

Working with diverse sets of clients across domains and industries
Leading the design and prototyping of digital products—websites, apps, and beyond—at all levels of fidelity
Collaborating with researchers, engineers, business consultants, and other designers to create world-class work
Conducting user research, communicate findings, translate insights into great new experiences
Envisioning new, novel experiences beyond what is expected—pushing the envelope beyond screens towards the edge of interaction and technology
Broadening your skill set beyond your core abilities—which might include project management, client relationship management, and/or technological skill development
Mentoring and leading members of the team in human-centered design and the field of UI design to develop talent, provide direction, and oversee output and projects
Contributing to BCG Platinion | MAYA Design’s consulting business by:

Assisting with business development through writing proposals, scoping projects, and convincing clients of the value of Human-Centered Design
Contributing to our thought leadership through written publications and speaking at events and conferences

Leading large complex projects as a project manager

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

You Bring:

6+ years in an UI or Experience design role or relevant professional experience
4+ years of experience in a client-facing consulting and leadership role
A degree in graphic design, interaction design, human-computer interaction or other relevant field, or equivalent experience. Advanced degree preferred.
An outstanding portfolio of work demonstrating strong human-centered design capabilities across a diverse range of projects
Expert knowledge with at least 5 of the following tools or technologies:

Sketch
InVision
Figma
Principle, Framer, or other similar prototyping tools
HTML & CSS
JavaScript
InDesign
AfterEffects

Additional consideration for candidates with the following skills:

Facilitation
Project management
Animation
Illustration
Print design
Branding & identity

Previous mentorship/management experience
Willingness to travel around the globe to work with clients and BCG teams. At times, this role involves significant travel to client sites. The amount of travel will depend on client needs and nature of projects

What to include in your application:

A link to your portfolio that demonstrates your affinity for UI design using human-centered concepts and shows how you approach a design challenge.

Candidates should be aware that BCG currently maintains a policy requiring all US & Canada based employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Newly hired employees must be fully vaccinated prior to their employment start date. BCG is an equal opportunity employer and will provide a reasonable accommodation to those unable to be vaccinated for medical or religious reasons where it is not an undue hardship to the company to do so as provided under applicable federal, state, provincial and local law.

Date Posted:

21-Dec-2021

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