Senior Innovation Strategist

Lab Summary:

Samsung Design Innovation Center is one of the leading overseas design studio in Samsung located in San Francisco CA. Our mission is to understand people and lifestyles to deliver meaningful experiences through beautiful yet functional design enabled by innovative cuttingedge technologies.

SDIC is working on various advanced product experiences which can envision and shape the future of Samsung Business working with various different internal teams through experience driven approach. Our work appears on smartphones tablets computers televisions wearables and other devices we cant describe yet. See some of our work at http://design.samsung/global/contents/sdic/

We are looking for a talented designers strategists and creative technologists to join our group and bring new energy to our process. You should be ready to help at all stages of product design from identifying unmet and latent needs discovering new design opportunities designing new product concepts to applying technology creatively to solve real user problems and create radically new experiences that reimagine the way we interact with products.

Position Summary:

The Design Strategist is responsible for orchestrating product innovation efforts through the creation of wellstructured strategic and inspiring narratives. In parallel they drive the crafting of ideas and design concepts that turn complex and confusing into simple understandable and desirable.

They achieve this through an understanding of people via qualitative and quantitative research the understanding of market opportunities through market research and competitive assessment and the comprehension of feasibility via technology scanning activities. The Design Strategist is skilled at synthesizing this data into core insights and creating compelling and persuasive narratives and narrative aids to enable storytelling. Furthermore the Design Strategist will work with Engineers Designers and Creatives to translate insights and concepts into tangible prototypes and product designs. Our work appears on phones tablets computers televisions wearables and other devices we cant describe yet. We are looking for a talented collaborative Design Strategist to join our group and bring new energy to our process.

We are interested in passionate and selfmotivated individuals who are comfortable in a highly fluid environment. You will bring drive smarts and curiosity; we will provide the environment for you to thrive and grow.

Position Responsibilities:

• Conceptualize document visualize and develop ideas for experience and products and take them from germinal to shippable
• Work on experience products and features in close collaboration with other stakeholders
• Creating experiences that successfully accomplish appropriately set goals
• Expected to lead projects and engage with a variety of stakeholders to get input and assess options
• Articulate design vision through prototyping scenario modeling strategic roadmaps etc.
• Creating wellstructured strategic and inspiring narratives for entire deliverables and works with the rest of the team to support the narrative
• Crafting ideas and design concepts that turn complex and confusing into simple and understandable
• Travel International and Domestic and work overtime when needed

Required Skills:

• Bachelors Degree required and Masters Degree preferred in Design HCI Product Management Engineering or equivalent combination of education training and experience
• 5 years of design strategy with User Research or User Experience as a foundation
• Experience in identifying emerging opportunities and delivering via new products or services
• A clear understanding of usercentered design processes and proven methodologies for identifying and solving problems
• Experience with research including but not limited user and ethnographic research market research interviewing survey design and data analysis
• Document visualize results of research strategy and new ideas high fidelity user scenarios
• Storytelling skills and the ability to create compelling narratives using visual tools
• Able to present and defend ideas to the internal team and help critique and push the rest of the team to better work
• Experience and a proven ability to think commercially strategically and creatively
• Time management skills attention to detail and ability to think and act strategically and proactively
• Be clear concise have transparent communication style willing to take action and open to starting a project idea concept from scratch

We will consider qualified applicants for employment with arrest and conviction records.

Additional Information

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Essential Job Functions

This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk communicate in person and by telephone and frequently operate standard office equipment such as telephones and computers.

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