The Insights & Strategy practice
The Insights & Strategy Practice is tightly integrated with design and client service teams to identify opportunities for design to help people in their everyday lives and to help clients build their businesses. While understanding the human condition as it pertains to a design challenge is a large part of this role, equally important is the ability to understand business, brand and innovation process to ensure that our solutions make it to and succeed in the market. We work collaboratively with designers and develop methods and processes that inspire the creation of relevant ideas.
Being a Director at Smart Design
A Director works with the Practice Leader to meet goals and objectives set for the practice. Company-wide, a Director is responsible for representing and nurturing the team, and serves as a conduit for communication between staff and management. On projects, a Director guides and directs multi-disciplinary teams through client engagements, delivering the highest quality solutions while respecting a project budget and achieving the overall client goals.
Director, Insights & Strategy for Barcelona
Smart is seeking a leader for the Insights & Strategy practice in our European headquarters in Barcelona. The Barcelona studio is the newest of Smart Design’s locations and is seeking a leader to work with client services to help generate new business opportunities as well as a doer who can both deliver and advise on design strategies. In time, you will grow the Insights & Strategy team in the Barcelona studio. This is a true roll-up your sleeves position where a proactive, self-starter will succeed. Ideally, you have worked in the EU and appreciate the cultural differences within Europe.
Specific Qualifications
- Care about people and how design can help them
- Have at least 10 years of experience as a design strategist developing and directing world-class content that ranges from the creation of brands, new category identification, development of product and service opportunities – essentially the ability to create holistic consumer experiences
- Are experienced in leading and building a practice
- Offer a strong track record of creating and nurturing deep client relationships
- Provide thought leadership in the design and innovation industry
- Draw from extensive experience collaborating with brand communication, interaction and industrial designers
- Champion the value that design can bring to an organization and can effectively navigate complex organizations and build consensus on large initiatives
- Run workshops to uncover business, brand and innovation insights
- Thrive in a creative, international team environment
- Speak a full battery of languages (this is nice plus!)
If this describes you, then Smart is interested in learning more about you and how you can contribute to the Insights & Strategy team at Smart.
Please send your cover letter and resume in a single PDF to the address below. Also, please reference Director BCN as the subject of your email. We look forward to hearing from you.