Design Manager

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 help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact. To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures-and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

What You'll Do

You are inspirational and conceptual, but above all dedicated to the visual craft of design.
As a Design Manager in the Design Studios team, you will be a creative thought- leader with an excellent design background who will lead, guide, mentor, and motivate a team of designers in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.

You will work with our consulting teams, lead, and oversee design projects end-to-end by executing complex and ambiguous briefs with minimal direction by translating business language and processes into creative ideas, concepts, and engaging stories to achieve their vision and to leverage storytelling in compliance with BCG standards.

You’ll lead and develop creative briefs that capture the business challenge, build timelines, ensure all deadlines are met, communicate with clients, and have the ability to conceptualize and ideate creative solutions, support all design decisions with creative, strategic and/or business reasoning, present creative concepts and discuss ideas to internal clients. Leading and
coordinating on multiple creative projects at one time, you’ll drive the execution of creative projects ensuring clients are satisfied with the quality of final result. You will provide leadership and inculcate innovative thinking to the Design team and establish rich and engaging partnerships with BCG Consulting teams. As a Design Manager you will be guiding Designers
in the team from associate to senior level, providing guidance, direction, training, and support throughout their career development.

 

You're Good At

• Working in partnership with key stakeholders to drive the execution of design projects by leading the Design team.
• Embracing a versatile, integrated, and collaborative multidisciplinary approach to design challenges, leading teams to with different design specializations and skills to produce innovative and effective design solutions.
• Providing creative direction to deliver vision on strategy, on brand, and on brief.
• Leading creative review of design work to ensure quality and excellence.
• Establish visual tone and messaging that will effectively communicate with the target audience to fulfil the project goals.
• Act as the most senior and hands-on creative representative at a project level as it relates to Visual Design and UX/UI.
• Delivering results to drive multi-vertical projects, from brief to final deliverables, whilst maintaining a deep knowledge of other creative verticals like Video, Digital, Content and Creative Strategy.
• Managing the production and process of all case- and proposal work assets together with Project Manager and Creative Strategist for large scale projects
• Leading, managing and overseeing multiple creative projects at one time, including building ad-hoc teams, ensuring all deadlines are met, providing guidance, and ensuring clients are satisfied with the quality of result and troubleshooting any issues that may arise during the project’s duration, effectively communicating under stressful
  circumstances.
• Making conceptual decisions, creating layouts, mock-ups, and prototypes to illustrate designs/experiences/ ideas to members team and stakeholders.
• Providing & receiving regular feedback and ensuring effective communication and high satisfaction levels between the team and consultants, under stressful circumstances
• Leading, guiding, mentoring & motivating a creative team of Designers (associate to senior designers), providing innovative thinking to the design team, developing training concepts and implementing trainings.
• Leading & driving business pitches and present, creative concepts, mock-ups and new and innovative ideas to internal and external clients.
• Thinking and coming up with new service solutions that extend the current Design Studios offering and help win new projects.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's Degree in Design/Graphic Design/Fine Arts or related field (or equivalent job education)
• You have 6-8 years of experience in a Professional services environment/ Design startups/Design Agencies.
• Excellent knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat Pro etc.) as well as industry standard prototyping tools, such as Figma, Adobe XD, InVision, etc. MS Office (interactive PowerPoint). An understanding of HTML5 and CSS would be helpful.
• Excellent knowledge of visual design, visual theory (i.e. composition, color theory, typography, etc.), a sharp eye for layout design and high affinity to latest design trends and new media (Augmented/Virtual Reality, Social Media etc.) and a mastery in freehand illustrations and/or digital drawings
• Experience with AR/VR wearables and/or IoT devices is a plus.
• Experience with 3D and motion design is a plus
• A strong portfolio that demonstrates your creative thinking and design aesthetics.

Who You'll Work With

A career in design at BCG involves bringing deep strategic, user experience and visual expertise into product development, helping to deliver breakthrough products that engage and inspire. We have extensive knowledge of design thinking and human-centered design, and are fluent in the latest technological innovation.

Additional info

We are Design Studios, an in-house creative agency comprised of cutting-edge professionals creating premium designs. We are a global, multi-disciplinary team of design strategists, creative leaders and digital experts. We craft powerful design stories for BCG, which seeks to deliver inspiring solutions to our clients' challenges. As part of BCG, Design Studios partners with consultants and clients to shape our brand by elevating our work through the power of design. We offer guidance and orientation through a strategic and audience-centric approach, and apply design, technology and media solutions to take BCG's achievements to the next level. As bold design leaders, we are fresh, punchy and playful, while committed to delivering premium, business excellence. We recognize how to transform complex ideas into compelling visual experiences, and how to activate new commercial opportunities at the intersection of business and design. We value innovation, co-creation, inspiration, and the business impact that design achieves. We believe in the art of the possible and applying creative solutions to business challenges. We believe we can advance the world by conquering its complexity through a universal, human language – design

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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