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Lead Business Design projects: Serve as the creative director on project teams, offering a business perspective and ensuring identified opportunities are viable in the market. Direct research on distribution channels, competition, exemplars, and innovative business models, as well as drive interviews with client stakeholders and SMEs. Guide analyses to enable an actionable vision for innovations and identify a path forward (from a design, technical and business point of view).

Drive business development opportunities:  Act as the content lead and develop points of view for Business Development efforts to help win Business Design-related projects. Actively seek new clients and provide ad hoc support on major business development opportunities for the EMEA market.

Author thought leadership on Business Design: Explore thought leadership opportunities and create new points of view for use in Business Design white papers, articles, and videos for marketing purposes. Build content development and speak externally about Smart's main thinking topics and industries of interest.

Guide integration of Business Design at Smart:  Educate colleagues about business and build awareness around the discipline and the value-add on projects. Collaborate and connect with other senior leaders in the Barcelona office and across the firm to create a culture of Business Design.

Refine company capabilities related to Business and Service Design: Build the Barcelona office’s capabilities to infuse a business strategy or service perspective into project work. Create new frameworks and tools to address client topics of interest.

Mentorship of staff: Define responsibilities and expectations for report-tos, and project team members, providing project guidance and helping their professional growth.

  Project Responsibilities vary based on projects, but may include:

• Lead project team members and clients to identify and frame innovation opportunities
• Guide insight synthesis and identify emerging opportunities based on a combination of industry analysis, company analysis, stakeholder & subject matter expert interviews, secondary research, exemplar audits, and trends evaluation
• Direct consumer research efforts, including focus groups, shop-a-longs, and in-home ethnographies, while incorporating existing secondary data regarding consumer segmentation, behaviors, and needs.
• Design and prototype new products, services or experiences that are authentic to the clients’ brand, with the design team, focused on business viability & technical feasibility
• Facilitate client workshops and meeting to identify new opportunity spaces, ideate new solutions, develop new capabilities, and enable senior leadership commitment
• Develop pro-forma financial models and business cases to assess, prioritize, and support recommendations to clients
• Build and prototype new business models using a rigorous approach that allows for piloting and continued refinement
• Build relationships with key stakeholders throughout the project

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Lead Service Design projects: Serve as the creative director on project teams. Shape the concept on projects and support it through implementation across a variety of platforms and mediums including every touch point of the service. Encourage innovative approaches to design enabling the designers and researchers.

Drive business development opportunities:  Act as the content lead and develop points of view for Business Development efforts to help win Service Design-related projects. Actively seek new clients and provide ad hoc support on major business development opportunities for the Barcelona studio.

Author thought leadership on Service Design: Explore thought leadership opportunities and create new points of view for use in Service Design white papers, articles, and videos for marketing purposes. Build content development and speak externally about Smart's main thinking topics and industries of interest.

Refine company capabilities related to Service Design: Build the Barcelona office’s capabilities to infuse service design into existing projects. Create new frameworks and tools to address client topics of interest.

Mentorship of staff: Define responsibilities and expectations for report-tos, and project team members, providing project guidance and helping their professional growth.

  Project Responsibilities varied based on projects, but may include:

• Manage and oversee the delivery of a range of projects, defining project scope, goals and deliverables in collaboration with key stakeholders
• Define appropriate deliverables based on the individual projects including, service assessment, needs analysis, service blueprint, customer journey maps, ethnographic studies, concept sketches, mock-ups, feasibility study, business plan, communication strategies, etc.
• Facilitate client workshops and meeting to identify new opportunity spaces, ideate new solutions, develop new capabilities, and enable senior leadership commitment
• Build relationships with key stakeholders throughout the project

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• Contribute to the Marketing Content team with the production of video materials to be used both internally and externally. This will range from pre-production to final output: brainstorm ideas for videos, explore storytelling methods/mediums (Vine, Vimeo, website, etc.), organize and edit footage, prep videos for online sharing and use in presentations. 
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• Work with design teams to capture and document their creative process and project work. A roving reporter of sorts within the offices capturing video content of the cool stuff we do.

• Act as a point person for all video footage that’s created for Smart Design’s SF office (research videos, process documentation, internal videos, and special projects). And by “point person” we mean you’ll help manage files and support cross-office workflow, coordinate and document ongoing projects, log footage, and help with technical issues that arise from people using footage (integration into PPT presentations, etc.)
• Assist Executive Producer with:
  • storyboarding, developing shot lists, equipment rentals, lighting/grip set-up and test shoots
  • camera operating or assisting, AD/script supervisor duties, and talent wrangling.
  • Final Cut Pro 7 or X (or similar), work flow from footage wrangling to final outputs, Adobe Creative Suite (esp. After Effects), Compressor, and online broadcasting with Vimeo, etc.

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