Senior Strategist - Product / Experience Design

Why join frog, apart of Capgemini Invent?

Joining frog means you’ll be joining the “pond,” a global network of studios, each with a thriving in-person and vibrant virtual culture. frogs are curious, collaborative, and courageous, united by our passion for improving the human experience through design, while each bringing our unique and diverse skills and experiences to the table. We draw on our global reach and local knowledge to solve complex problems and design innovative, sustainable solutions that touch hearts and move markets. frogs prize humour, positivity, and community just as highly as performance and outcomes. Our culture is open, flexible, inclusive, and engaging. Working at frog means being empowered to Make Your Mark on every project, in your studio, your community—and the world at large.

The Role:

As a Senior Strategist, you will collaborate with designers, technologists, and program managers to envision and create new products, services, and experiences. You will work across every stage of the product development lifecycle to ensure that the concepts and design decisions are sensitive to both the needs of users and our clients’ businesses. You will be especially involved at the earliest stages of projects where we conduct research to understand user needs and develop ideas for new experiences. You will formulate clear hypotheses or approaches based on ambiguous information, then later validate these hypotheses in collaboration with the design team. You should be eager to involve clients in the design process, be highly responsive to feedback, and excited to present the team’s ideas in front of executives.

You will receive warm and robust support from frog strategy leadership, but you will often be the only strategist on your team. You should be comfortable working independently and able to make thoughtful decisions with limited information. You should be able to take the next key steps while simultaneously considering the broader context of the engagement, the client’s business, and the world.

As a Strategist in our San Francisco strategy team, you’ll be working with cross-functional project teams within frog across all projects and be responsible for:

• Synthesizing market research with insights on opportunities, forming quickly POV on market dynamics, competitors, and white spaces.
• Developing financial analysis and strategic assessments of client’s existing operations.
• Owning design and planning of qual and quant research, conducting interviews, and developing insights from research.
• Owning execution of commercial sizing models across strategy, opportunity areas, concepts, and solution phases; proficient with different business model types (product, services, subscription, etc.)
• Conducting category assessment, competitive analysis, and projections of future growth.
• Contributing to the development and definition of innovation strategies.
• Diagnosing current business models and key challenges and developing new business model propositions to address emerging market needs.
• Creating well-structured, strategic, and inspiring narratives for entire deliverables, and works with the rest of the team to support the narrative.

What we’re looking for:

You should have experience and a proven ability to think commercially, strategically, and creatively.

Our ideal candidate has the following characteristics:

• Restless curiosity. You’re resourceful in scouring the world for insight, comfortable in a highly charged idea-centric environment, fascinated with changing the world, able to move seamlessly from high altitude thinking to the tangible and practical. You enjoy learning.
• Creative problem solving. A lateral thinker adept at uncovering the themes and critical pieces of information that can spark game-changing innovations, with an intuitive ability for identify gaps in markets and develop new markets in those gaps.
• World-Class Presentation Skills. You would be interacting on a regular basis with senior executives and should therefore demonstrate the ability to construct and deliver inspiring and convincing arguments verbally as well as on paper.
• Contagious Positive Passion. You should get excited by big transformational ideas and be able to infectiously stoke the fires of those around you. You don’t accept the world as you find it but strive to improve it.
• Strong Opinions. You should be prepared to defend your opinions and perspectives and be able to support them with lateral and insightful commercial and strategic rationale.
• Embrace Ambiguity. The ability to both handle ambiguity. Our job is to help create a future that is, by definition, uncertain; so, we are forced to face ambiguity on every project.
• Analytic Rigor: You have been responsible for performing comprehensive financial, business, and competitive analysis across a range of categories and understand how to weave a compelling story out of a disparate base of facts. (Experience in Excel modelling and statistics is preferred). You are skilled at reducing complexity to hone-in on the essence of a business or strategy issue.
• Experience: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (or equivalent).An MBA or at least 3+ years of experience working in the field of innovation, strategy development or financial analysis - this experience may come through work in strategy consulting, private equity, venture capital, startups, investment banking, or within a corporate innovation team, product management or product marketing.
  

It would be a bonus if you had:

• Experience with research, including but not limited to design research, ethnographic research, interviewing, survey design, and data analysis.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver products from concept to launch.
• An interest in global trends, from culture to people and business to climate, and how that impacts our world.
• Experience with advanced Excel modeling or other analytics tools.
• Experience working in a creative environment with designers, and an interest in human centered design.
• An interest in technology, both extant and emerging.

How to Apply

1. Tell us “Why frog?” in 200 words, in your cover letter.
2. Attach your resume or CV.
3. Submit your application.

About frog, apart of Capgemini Invent

frog is a leading global creative consultancy, part of Capgemini Invent

We challenge the status quo to craft and build transformative human experiences that win hearts and move markets.

Partnering with passionate leaders and visionary entrepreneurs, we apply creativity, strategy, design and data to re-invent businesses, drive growth and orchestrate customer centric transformation.

Together we strive to shape a regenerative future that is both sustainable and inclusive for businesses, people and planet.

www.frogdesign.com

Life at Capgemini

Capgemini supports all aspects of your well-being throughout the changing stages of your life and career. For eligible employees, we offer:

• Flexible work
• Healthcare including dental, vision, mental health, and well-being programs
• Financial well-being programs such as 401(k) and Employee Share Ownership Plan
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Family building benefits like adoption assistance, surrogacy, and cryopreservation
• Social well-being benefits like subsidized back-up child/elder care and tutoring
• Mentoring, coaching and learning programs
• Employee Resource Groups
• Disaster Relief

Disclaimer

Capgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.

This is a general description of the Duties, Responsibilities and Qualifications required for this position. Physical, mental, sensory or environmental demands may be referenced in an attempt to communicate the manner in which this position traditionally is performed. Whenever necessary to provide individuals with disabilities an equal employment opportunity, Capgemini will consider reasonable accommodations that might involve varying job requirements and/or changing the way this job is performed, provided that such accommodations do not pose an undue hardship.

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Capgemini discloses salary range information in compliance with state and local pay transparency obligations. The disclosed range represents the lowest to highest salary we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting, although we may ultimately pay more or less than the disclosed range, and the range may be modified in the future. The disclosed range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, geographic location, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, performance, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs. At Capgemini, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role. The base salary range for the tagged location is $105,600 - $229,190. This role may be eligible for other compensation including variable compensation, bonus, or commission. Full time regular employees are eligible for paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), and any other benefits to eligible employees. Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.