You are a seasoned professional who thinks strategically, collaborates cross-functionally, produces high quality deliverables, grows client relationships, and continuously builds and elevates your practice. As a colleague and key influencer within the team, you have the entrepreneurial spirit to drive forward through moments of ambiguity and change with a problem-solver’s attitude. As a practitioner, you are able to define innovative and successful products, business, and marketing strategies to drive forward a human-centered design. You are able to do this with a track record in bringing products from idea-to-market, creating and validating innovative product concepts, and understanding how to develop successful new market entry strategies and rationalizing product portfolios.

 What we share: 

• A knack for looking at familiar problems through a unique lens
• Desire to change minds, hearts, and behaviours with new experiences
• Passion for driving market growth through innovation, technology, and design,
• A belief that understanding people can better guide business priorities and strategies

 What your day-to-day will look like:

• Lead project engagements with a focus on delivering new products throughout the product life cycle for Fortune 500 clients across a range of industries and project types independently or as part of a team
• Contribute to and lead cross-functional teams (strategy, insights, design, technology), providing product realization expertise and guidance
• Act as a trusted client partner and product realization expert, relied on for strategic POVs
• Understand and incorporate complex business, strategic, and technical requirements into engagement outcomes
• Contribute to work across all product realization capabilities including opportunity identification and analysis, market sizing and segmentation, product and business model definition, requirements definition and development management
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams in identifying innovative product and service opportunities from concept definition and validation through to formal requirements documentation, commercialization, launch and ongoing support
• Work with teams to design and facilitate successful presentations and workshops for senior executive level clients
• Support project design across a range of project types and contribute to the end-to-end creation of winning proposals
• Contribute to organizational business development activities from opportunity identification to sold work
• Inspire and develop the skills of supporting team members
• Support development of new product realization practice tools and processes
• Actively manage a broad network of stakeholders across the client organization, and within Idea Couture and Cognizant 

What you’ll need 

• Undergraduate or graduate degree in business administration, or a related field
• 5+ years experience in agency/consulting or client side, with strategy consulting, product planning, product marketing, or product management experience
• Digital agency experience or MBA is considered a strong asset
• Proven ability to critique, analyze, and elevate strategies and ideas
• Expert understanding of cross-functional resources and building effective teams
• Strong client leadership and facilitation skills with the ability to command and guide a room
• Proven track record in managing digital transformations from product and business modelling, casing, and definition through to market launch
• Extensive experience in front-end ideation activities including opportunity identification and analysis, market sizing and segmentation, and product and business model definition
• Demonstrated experience in defining product requirements, managing development efforts across integrated teams of designers, strategists, and engineers, and delivering products to market
• Conversant in the principles and practices of human-centered design, design thinking, and agile development methodology (including user story development)
• Note: Currently travel is not a requirement; would expect up to 25% as business requirements change

 What’s in it for you? 

• Multidisciplinary learning across backgrounds, approaches, methods, and industry expertise
• Be a part of and play a critical role in shaping a niche and nimble culture within a global firm
• Access to global scale, from the types of projects you work on to resources you collaborate with and lean on
• Experience with a broad range of challenges in experience design, from whitespace opportunity definition to downstream realization
• A competitive salary and benefits package
• A workplace that prioritizes wellness and working flexibly to ensure you get the balance you need to meet the demands of your personal and professional life