Visual Designer 
Location: US, CA, Manhattan Beach
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Management Consulting
Function: Design
Company profile: The Boston Consulting Group (#URL_45423e1e16703aa4d8ee444d3ad69bb51525f1dad0b3115713cf80dc496299e2#) has launched a new digital business, BCG Digital Ventures (#URL_4968ff917b2cf554a3e92b004e0c92d03e4c10730070a0df7e84f0d3db806e53#) - a digital innovation, product development, and commercialization firm.  This first-of-its-kind firm will bring unique capabilities to create and grow disruptive digital products and platforms.  BCG Digital Ventures goes beyond providing consulting, design, and technology services to form strategic venture teams with its clients in order to rapidly develop, launch and grow transformational digital products, platforms and businesses.The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a global management consulting firm and the world's leading advisor on business strategy.  BCG partners with clients from the private, public and not-for-profit sectors in all regions to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their enterprises.BCG was founded in 1963 and is a privately owned firm with more than 7,000 employees across 81 offices in 45 countries.  Integrity, respect for the individual, delivering value, and making an impact on society are just some of BCG's core values. BCG's commitment to both their clients' success and their own standards is what sets BCG apart as a world-class professional services organization.
Description: THE COMPANY: BCG Digital Ventures (#URL_4968ff917b2cf554a3e92b004e0c92d03e4c10730070a0df7e84f0d3db806e53#)The Boston Consulting Group (#URL_45423e1e16703aa4d8ee444d3ad69bb51525f1dad0b3115713cf80dc496299e2#) has launched a new digital business, BCG Digital Ventures (#URL_4968ff917b2cf554a3e92b004e0c92d03e4c10730070a0df7e84f0d3db806e53#) - a digital innovation, product development, and commercialization firm.  This first-of-its-kind firm will bring unique capabilities to create and grow disruptive digital products and platforms.  BCG Digital Ventures goes beyond providing consulting, design, and technology services to form strategic venture teams with its clients in order to rapidly develop, launch and grow transformational digital products, platforms and businesses. The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a global management consulting firm and the world's leading advisor on business strategy.  BCG partners with clients from the private, public and not-for-profit sectors in all regions to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their enterprises. BCG was founded in 1963 and is a privately owned firm with more than 7,000 employees across 81 offices in 45 countries.  Integrity, respect for the individual, delivering value, and making an impact on society are just some of BCG's core values. BCG's commitment to both their clients' success and their own standards is what sets BCG apart as a world-class professional services organization.THE OPPORTUNITY: Visual DesignerBCG is looking for exemplary Visual Designers passionate about creating clean cut aesthetics to help drive the rapid growth of BCG Digital Ventures.  The Visual Designers will help BCG clients imagine, visualize and conceptually see their digital businesses and solutions.  To do this, BCG is looking to hire a group of world-class business/strategy, product design, and technology professionals with deep knowledge and experience in digital businesses and solutions – from mobile applications and ecommerce, to new and emerging digital solutions yet to be realized.As a core member of the Visual Design team, you will create masterpieces on a per project basis that’s custom tailored to the client’s needs and the consumer’s wants. Specifically…Leverage world-class user-experience and graphic-design methodologies to help re-imagine new human-centered user experiences, products and services through collaborative problem solving with a multidisciplinary team.Contribute to BCG’s thought leadership in UI/UX/transmedia design approaches and strategic innovation best practices.Navigate multidisciplinary input and constructive feedback to ensure digital products balance compelling visual design.Create design solutions that address primary user as well as business goals.Lead end-to-end design of large-scale projects that focus on a user-centered design approach.Refine, maintain and enforce the best-in-class design guidelines and strategies.Adeptly handle changing priorities throughout a product life cycle.Partner with the technology team to ensure BCG leverages the scale offered by their platform without compromising on core experiential principles.Work strategically with and present your design solutions to a wide variety of teams and departments. 
Requirements: REQUIREMENTS/COMPETENCIES/PERSONAL ATTRIBUTESEDUCATION: Undergraduate degree in Graphic or transmedia Design; Industrial Design, Web Design, Human Factors, HCI, visual arts or related; Master’s or advanced degree highly preferred.EXPERIENCE: 5-7+ years of experience designing and documenting user experiences.2-5+ years of experience in graphic, UX/UI and/or transmedia design.Deep knowledge of design visual theory (i.e. typography, color theory, composition, iconography, etc.)Have an online / digital portfolio that demonstrates strong graphic design and compelling user experiences across a diverse range of projects.Demonstrated knowledge of information architecture, interaction flow, user interface and visual design.Expert skill level in 2-D Analog Visual Communication, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, In-Design, Fireworks), Balsamiq and Omnigraffle.A solid understanding of web and mobile design principles and best use of current web and mobile technologies and scalable dynamic user interfaces.Knowledge of open-source transmedia toolkits (e.g. Arduinos, sensors, effectors, etc.) and an agility to prototype interaction experiments is a plus.Possess a passion for digital products and services.Mastery with organizing information, developing impactful experience concepts, designing advanced layouts and interactions for all things digital.Demonstrated success at project execution and delivery, and ongoing project communicationStrong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.Self-motivated, takes initiative, possesses creative problem-solving skills and willingness to offer suggestions for improvement; able to build effective relationships to leverage resourcesProven diligence, attention to detail and technical intuition.Service-oriented, flexible, positive team player, capable of interacting and problem solving with a multidisciplinary team.An organized and composed professional, able to handle competing priorities and work effectively in a challenging fast paced environment.Exercises judgment in managing confidential/sensitive information; trustworthy, ethical and possesses the highest levels of character and values.Must be able to thrive in a fast-paced, intellectually intense, service-oriented environment and to interpret rules and guidelines flexibly to enhance the business and in keeping with BCG’s values and cultureProven Experience working successfully within a complex matrix structured organization is essentialIt is necessary to have the ability to understand and manage complex reporting relationships and incorporate multiple labor laws and cultures.
Benefits: WHY BCG DIGITAL VENTURES?Why BCG?Is BCG for me?Career GrowthWorking at BCGMeet BCGersFAQ“Top 5 Fortune’s Best Companies to Work for”96% of the staff is proud to be part of BCG92% of alumni recommend BCG as place to workBCG works with 2/3 of Fortune 500 Companies
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