Strategist – Research

  • Term: Permanent
  • Location: Shanghai, China
  • Salary: Negotiable

Do you want to transform businesses through designing and engineering customer experiences and tech? Keep reading!

Our client is a software and consulting firm with offices in 30 different countries and specializes in software development (including product design &development and digital platform engineering), digital strategy and experience design.

There are about 20 people in the design team in Shanghai and they have a global highly collaborative design community with opportunities to work on projects around Asia.

 

Your Responsibilities:

  • Lead multidisciplinary teams to support different kinds of clients with creating tangible designs and helping them to go to market
  • You will explore real-world problems, conceptualize meaningful opportunities and create compelling value propositions
  • You have extensive experience with quant and qual research and can take charge of user testing and research, and present findings
  • Extract qual and quant insights and transfer them into holistic customer experiences
  • Mentor and lead the team’s capabilities on UX Design methods ranging from research and product development to service design and thought leadership
  • Question ways of working and challenge the team to perform at their best

Your Profile:

  • 7+ Years’ experience, preferably at a digital agency
  • You live and breathe human-centric design and you have a great in-depth understanding of the entire UX lifecycle
  • You can build client relationships and have an understanding of the Chinese market
  • Mentoring and guiding junior designers comes naturally to you
  • Strongly process-oriented
  • Able to think strategically and able to explain design decisions
  • Able to visually, verbally, and in writing express your ideas and findings
  • Experience in generative and evaluative based research activities and understand the wider context of digital product design
  • Need to have a Chinese passport, and speak fluent English besides native Mandarin

You will join a world-class senior design team and a grass route design talent academy, giving the opportunity to learn from peers and mentor juniors.

Do you want to work in a culture that supports continuous personal and professional development to explore niche and passion projects within the design?

Email me now and we discuss the details: mark.swinkels@cogsagency.com

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