Location: Boston, MA
Discipline: UX / Product Design
Experience: 10+ years
Compensation: TBD
About the job
SmithGroup is an award-winning, integrated design firm that blends research, data and technology with innovation and a creative spirit to deliver resilient, inclusive spaces that solve our clients' greatest challenges. Our teams create exceptional design solutions for healthcare, science and technology, workplace, mixed use, higher education, cultural, waterfront, parks and open spaces, and urban environments. We are looking for passionate problem solvers who want to elevate design, push boundaries and move us closer to a carbon-free future. Care to join us? The Boston office of SmithGroup is looking for a Higher Education Design Strategist to join our team.
Working with us, you will:
Plan and lead client strategy engagements.
Lead in all aspects of design research, research execution, and analysis (data gathering and research, engaging diverse stakeholders, and assembling multiple stakeholder perspectives.)
Structure, analyze, and synthesize primary and secondary research and data (quantitative and qualitative) to generate actionable materials
Articulate hypotheses, insights, and points of view to facilitate the development of design solutions and organizational recommendations
Produce high-quality deliverables such as client presentations, strategic design briefs and collateral materials
Lead programming efforts (observations, data gathering, interviews and workshops), development of program and space requirement reports
Develop design strategy briefs through writing, analysis, and graphic content development
Work with project teams to implement strategy through planning and design concepts
Support and partner with strategy team and others to create thought leadership