Job Description

Location:

New York, Pittsburgh

Geography:

North America

Capabilities:

Technology & digital

Industries:

Technology industries

About Us

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.
To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

Practice Area Profile

BCG Platinion launched in Germany in 2000 to add deep technical expertise to the Boston Consulting Group’s existing capabilities. Today, our presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America. Our New York-based North American team began in 2014 and in 2017 acquired MAYA Design, a Pittsburgh-based digital design and innovation lab, to grow our capabilities around technology and design. We support our clients’ total digital transformation through technology, design, cybersecurity, and risk management & financial engineering capabilities. And together with BCG, BCG Platinion’s interdisciplinary team of technical experts enable customized technical solutions and accelerate delivery value through new business platforms, application consolidations, and major system implementations.

Role Profile

At BCG Platinion, we’re bringing design to the front line of business challenges and creating work that solves problems in novel, feasible, and desirable ways. We are looking for someone passionate about supporting the UI/UX for digital products, a curious individual who is passionate about advocating for user needs, and thinks in terms of design systems.

Designers at BCG Platinion are:

• Flexible and user-focused. They have the ability to design in multiple mediums and levels of interactivity, all while employing appropriate human-centered design methods.
• Iterative. They are excited to prototype at all levels of fidelity—and have the humility to walk away from ideas when they fail.
• Human-Centered . They start with people and thoughtfully consider the usefulness and usability of everything they create.
• Designers. They create wireframes, storyboards, and data visualizations to communicate a desired future state.
• Collaborative. They have the ability and enthusiasm to work with researchers, engineers, business consultants, and other designers who will challenge and support one another.
• Communicators. They have strong verbal, written, and presentation skills, and the ability to provide the rationale behind their design decisions to colleagues and clients.
• Empathetic. They desire to truly understand humans and their behavior—and turn complex tasks into intuitive, easy-to-use solutions.
• Comfortable with ambiguity . They know projects and businesses move fast. That means the path forward isn’t always well-defined. They are comfortable and collaborative through our process.

You're good at:

• Supporting diverse sets of clients across domains and industries
• Be an advocate for user needs and experiences throughout the design process.
• Designing and prototyping digital products—websites, apps, and beyond—at all levels of fidelity
• Collaborating with engineers, business consultants, and other designers to create world-class work
• Support the facilitation of workshops with diverse stakeholders, from client teams to community partners, to collaboratively explore domains and challenges, synthesize data, generate concepts, and present work.
• Participating in user research, communicate findings, translate insights into great new experiences
• Envisioning new, novel experiences beyond what is expected—pushing the envelope beyond screens towards the edge of interaction and technology
• Broadening your skill set beyond your core abilities—which might include project management, client relationship management, and/or technological skill development

Your Qualifications

You Bring:

• Purusing BS/BA or MS in design, interaction design, design planning, human-computer interaction, or other relevant field, or equivalent experience.
• An outstanding portfolio of work demonstrating strong human-centered design capabilities across a diverse range of projects.
• Knowledge with at least 2 of the following tools or technologies:
• Sketch
• InVision
• Principle, Framer, or other similar prototyping tools
• HTML & CSS
• JavaScript
• InDesign
• AfterEffects
• Additional consideration for candidates with the following skills:
• Facilitation
• Project management
• Animation
• Illustration
• Print design
• Branding & identity

What to include in your application:

· A link to your portfolio that demonstrates your affinity for UI design using human-centered concepts and shows how you approach a design challenge.

Once your application is submitted we will also require you to submit a video cover letter. Details to follow via email in late March.

Locations:

New York, NY; Pittsburgh, PA

BCG pioneered strategy consulting more than 50 years ago, and we continue to innovate and redefine the industry. We offer multiple career paths for the world’s best talent to have a real impact on business and society. As part of our team, you will benefit from the breadth and diversity of what we are doing today and where we are headed next. We count on your authenticity, exceptional work, and strong integrity. In return we are committed to supporting you in discovering the most fulfilling career journey possible—and unlocking your potential to advance the world.

BCG Platinion launched in Germany in 2000 to add deep technical expertise to the Boston Consulting Group’s existing capabilities. Today, our presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America. Our New York-based North American team began in 2014 and in 2017 acquired MAYA Design, a Pittsburgh-based digital design and innovation lab, to grow our capabilities around technology and design.

We support our clients’ total digital transformation through technology, design, cybersecurity, and risk management & financial engineering capabilities. And together with BCG, BCG Platinion’s interdisciplinary team of technical experts enable customized technical solutions and accelerate delivery value through new business platforms, application consolidations, and major system implementations.

Date Posted:

06-Mar-2020

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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