Design strategist

Job Description

Why join the Capgemini Design Studio?

The Capgemini Design Studio is a Design & Innovation consultancy that makes up part of Capgemini Belgium. Our practice aims at helping our clients across various industries boost their growth by becoming a human-driven Experience organization. We ensure that our clients reinvent their business to stay relevant in a rapidly evolving market.

We also guide our partners in overcoming their challenges by transforming every working interaction into a memorable moment. This will allow them to align, solve big problems, take decisions, create new experiences, or improve existing ones, and all based on real data. We compress months of work into a few days.

By joining us, you’ll become part of a global company with a world-class brand and reputation. Besides the exciting and impactful work we do for our clients, we’re really proud to push our customers to shape a regenerative future that is both sustainable and inclusive for people, businesses and our planet.

You will discover an open, flexible, honest, inclusive and engaging culture. We will make sure to have the right opportunities for you that will allow you to grow so you will always have the right learning opportunities (formal and informal) to improve your role-specific skills and expertise.

Your job

Powerful experiences change the lives of our clients, the lives of their customers and employees and help us to contribute to a simpler and better world. We are looking for passionate Designers that want to be the best in their field and take on ambitious challenges.

We are looking for a Product-Service strategist that combines business skills with User-centric design. You will be working on design projects that range from shaping future services to delivering digital products. While working on those projects, you need to ensure the best fit in terms of desirability (people), feasibility (technology), sustainability and viability (business). You will help our customers turn their biggest, wildest ideas into businesses with long-term viability.

Depending on your expertise and your affinities, your day-to-day can encompass the following:

1. Discovery & Research

• Engage stakeholders (NL/FR/UK) to articulate problems and define project vision/goals.
• Setup and conduct user research activities to find the real problems and opportunities.
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative output.
• Synthesize data from various sources to identify strategic opportunities and champion effective solutions.
• Consolidate and visualize key learnings and evangelize user behavior to help clients better understand where they should focus their efforts.

2. Design

• Translate insights gathered from research and client input into deliverables such as: wireframes, user flows, sketches, customer journey’s, service blueprints & interaction specifications.
• Craft experiences with tools such as Figma, Sketch, Invision etc. is a plus.
• Manage UX project deliverables and outcomes together with an interdisciplinary team of experts.
• Iterate on design solutions using both qualitative and quantitative data
• Be the voice of reason and work towards solutions that suit the client, their end-users, and business goals.
• Work in agile software development projects to turn concepts into real products and services.

3. Facilitation

• Guide, support, and unlock the potential of a team and its members through facilitation
• Be able to organize, plan and lead engaging workshops both in-person and remotely.
• Encourage data-backed decisions and provide examples
• Demonstrate expertise in online facilitation tools like Miro/Mural.
• Knowledge and experience of existing workshops recipes like the Design Sprint and Lightning Decision Jam.
• Translate workshop output into design deliverables.

Are you the Design strategist we are looking for? Then hit the apply button and we will be more than happy to meet you.