Senior Growth & Venture Designer

SLAM; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

IDEO San Francisco is seeking a Senior Business Designer to frame complex problems, translate insights into viable growth opportunities, and drive ideas to real-world activation. The role involves shaping new products, services, and ventures while building business models and go-to-market strategies.

You will work across disciplines, influence senior stakeholders, and turn ambiguity into clarity by developing experiments and roadmaps that scale recommendations in practice.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of full-time experience in strategy consulting, venture design, product strategy or related fields.
• Strong business acumen across strategy, marketing, finance, operations.
• Experience in business design, strategy, product management, or innovation roles.
• Ability to creatively solve problems in a business context, addressing feasibility, viability, and desirability.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate complex business ideas to different audiences.
• Track record of turning ideas into execution roadmaps.
• Strong storytelling and narrative-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Generate new ideas, viable business models, value propositions and go-to-market strategies for new products, services, and ventures.
• Build understanding of IDEO’s client organizations and drive change within their teams.
• Conduct market, competitive, and financial analysis to identify opportunities and inform decisions.
• Synthesize research and insights into narratives guiding decisions and aligning stakeholders.
• Develop experiments or pilots to create innovation roadmaps.
• Collaborate in multidisciplinary teams with designers and technologists.
• Facilitate client workshops and conversations to drive alignment and momentum.
• Share knowledge to grow the Business Design craft within IDEO.

Skills

Business acumen

Strategic instincts

Growth strategy

Go-to-market

Venture building

Influencing senior stakeholders

Storytelling

Education

MBA (beneficial)

Tools

AI tools familiarity

Job description

IDEO San Francisco is seeking a Senior Business Designer to frame complex problems, translate insights into viable growth opportunities, and drive ideas to real-world activation. The role involves shaping new products, services, and ventures while building business models and go-to-market strategies.

You will work across disciplines, influence senior stakeholders, and turn ambiguity into clarity by developing experiments and roadmaps that scale recommendations in practice.