Strategic Design Intern (Summer 2019)

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We’re BCG Digital Ventures. Welcome.

 

We are a growing global team of the world’s most remarkable entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, venture architects, product experts and investors. We look for creativity, craftsmanship, and the ability to solve difficult problems. Our passion is building products and services for new companies that change people’s lives. Together, we are helping our partners own the next horizon of innovation and create magic.

The Role: Strategic Designer.

As a member of the BCG Digital Ventures Strategic Design team you will be passionate about consumer behavior, curious about the world around you, and influential at the forefront of new thinking and techniques.

 

Using your core skills in qualitative and quantitative research techniques you are responsible for understanding the user needs, motivations and behaviors. You have experience in understanding and identifying unmet user needs, turning these findings into actionable user/product goals and excel at creating artifacts that enable and inform the innovation process. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team you will help to develop innovative product and service concepts that will add real consumer value.

Program Overview.

 

We are looking for students currently pursing Graduate degrees. The 10-week internship program will allow interns to gain valuable experience working on our current Ventures.

As a Strategic Design Intern, you will need:

  • Currently pursuing a MS degree in Design or a related subject from an accredited University
  • Resume, Cover Letter and Portfolio
  • Abilities planning, prioritizing and organizing work effectively and efficiently within a team
  • Creative problem solving skills

Ideally, you will have:

  • Bachelor’s degree in design, business, psychology, strategy, marketing or another relevant field
  • An outstanding portfolio of work demonstrating strong human-centered design capabilities across a diverse range of projects
  • Experience with ethnographic research (quantitative and qualitative), divergent exploration, conceptual development and industrial design
  • A background with product prototyping and testing, future visioning and strategy development 

As a Strategic Design Intern, you will use your skills to:

  • Conduct quantitative research investigations that help strategically frame, validate or challenge other forms of research
  • Develop ethnographic research and contextual design investigations to understand customer behaviors, pain points, needs and aspirations
  • Contribute to deep trend analysis and research of interesting exemplars in the marketplace
  • Identify insights from customer research and market analysis
  • Bring your research to life through personas, customer journeys, insight-opportunity frameworks, system maps, stories and scenarios
  • Contribute unique ideas within multidisciplinary workshops, meetings and immersion sessions.
  • Using divergent design thinking techniques for the conceptual development of products, services and/or physical connected form-factors
  • Converge innovative ideas to a set of digital and tangible products, services and/or physical connected form-factors in partnership with venture architects, product managers and engineering
  • Communicate design ideas using techniques, including product concepts, service models, customer journeys, industrial designs, system maps and/or infographics
  • Iteratively design, test and refine disruptive products and services
  • Partner with venture architects and product managers to ensure that new ventures and business builds are set up to deliver strategic value in line with design intent
  • Observe and engage audiences within the markets of interest to test commercialization assumptions for audience capture and scaling
  • Contribute to the evolution of strategic design approaches throughout BCG Digital Ventures
  • Communicate insights, concepts and design rationales to internal and external audiences

Interviews will take place after resumes have been screened for minimum requirements. Please note that this position is not restricted solely to the responsibilities listed above and that the job scope and responsibilities are subject to change.

 

BCG Digital Ventures is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law

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