We are hiring an Design Strategist to help craft meaningful and innovative user experiences. This role involves partnering with multidisciplinary teams to extract insights, pinpoint opportunities, and design solutions that are user-focused, financially viable, and technically feasible. You will utilize innovation strategy skills to enhance the impact of our projects.

 

Responsibilities

• Engage with diverse teams across all project phases, including aligning with clients, understanding contexts, developing insights, identifying opportunities, creating actionable designs, and executing go-to-market plans
• Utilize both creative and analytical tools to address real-life challenges
• Perform qualitative and quantitative research to uncover consumer needs, behaviors, and issues
• Synthesize research data to derive key insights and opportunity spaces
• Construct visual frameworks to outline pain points and innovation areas
• Ideate new product, service, and experience concepts that resonate with consumers and align with business aims
• Confirm ideas and solutions through qualitative and quantitative validation
• Prepare compelling narratives and client presentations to communicate insights and solutions

 

Requirements

• Degree in a design or creative field, human behavior discipline, or analytical area such as engineering, business, or economics
• Five or more years of relevant professional experience
• At least 2 years experience in leadership positions such as Lead, Manager, Owner, Architect, or Coordinator
• One year or more managing teams of at least 5 employees
• Participation in a minimum of 2 full project cycles or multiple projects at various development stages
• Experienced in design thinking methodologies for innovation and problem-solving
• Excellent presentation and communication capabilities to articulate concepts and solutions
• Capable of working collaboratively in group settings with balanced independence and direction
• Exposure to consumer or user research, ideation, sketching, prototyping, and conceptual visualization
• Proven client communication skills and effective presentation delivery
• Availability to travel quarterly to the US for research or client meetings
• Portfolio demonstrating insight identification, opportunity development, and framework design
• English language skills at B2 level or higher, both written and spoken

 

We offer

• International projects with top brands
• Work with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers
• Healthcare benefits
• Employee financial programs
• Paid time off and sick leave
• Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses
• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses
• Global career opportunities
• Volunteer and community involvement opportunities
• EPAM Employee Groups
• Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn