[Hiring] Strategic Business Designer @dentsu

Role Description

The BX practice acts as a strategic advisory unit for the client C-Suite focusing on a range of topics around corporate transformation from purpose and vision, sustainability, the growth of an existing business, creation of new businesses and internal transformations. It helps to bring the very best of the network to clients to solve their business challenges. In response to the change in how businesses engage with consumers, Dentsu is therefore set up to offer clients a cohesive end-to-end service which meets clients’ needs of speed, quality and value in a digital-first environment.

We are seeking a visionary Strategic Business Designer to join our global Business Transformation (BX) Team. In this role, you will drive international growth and organizational evolution for our clients, acting as an internal transformation advisor. You will blend structured management consulting principles with cutting-edge technology and human-centric product design. Working within a core BX Team, you will translate complex global market data into compelling, high-stakes narratives that secure stakeholder buy-in, modernize our operational models, and scale cross-border revenue streams and products.

Core Responsibilities

• Pitch Leadership: Act as the BX lead on priority global pitches and new-business pursuits. Bring the BX point of view into the room early, probe and reframe business challenge with agility, imagination, and purpose.
• Senior Client Engagement: Build trusted-advisor relationships at the CMO, CSO, and CEO level. Run diagnostic sessions alongside account teams and move client relationships into enterprise strategy.
• Codifying the BX body of work: Serve as the primary author and keeper of next-generation BX materials. Turn the practice’s thinking and live client work into frameworks, points of view, and signature assets that carry the BX brand and get reused across markets.
• Product-Led Transformation Strategy: Partner with cross-functional product and engineering teams to drive the discovery, user journey mapping, and design of next-generation digital media products and ad formats.
• Strategic Narrative Design: Translate complex transformation roadmaps, regional data sets, and technical insights into a clear internal narrative that aligns decentralized global teams behind a shared point of view.
• Case studies and proof points: BX-grade case studies with named clients, and outcomes.
• Signature IP: Develop and maintain the practice’s owned assets, including diagnostic frameworks and any published index.

Qualifications

• University degree in Business, Marketing, Computer Science, Media Studies.
• 10+ years of experience in management consulting, business transformation, digital product strategy, or corporate strategy.

Requirements

• Mastery of structured problem-solving models (e.g., MECE, Issue Trees, SWOT) and change management methodologies to navigate ambiguous corporate environments.
• Practical understanding of generative AI workflows, algorithmic audience targeting, predictive analytics, and emerging media channels.
• Competency in design thinking, rapid prototyping concepts, and collaborating with UX/UI teams to enhance digital platform engagement.
• Exceptional capability to craft persuasive presentations and data visualizations that influence C-suite stakeholders and drive transformation buy-in.
• Deep expertise in advanced marketing attribution models, Media Mix Modelling (MMM), and measuring the financial impact of business transformation initiatives.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k
• Flexible paid time off
• At least 15 paid holidays per year
• Paid sick and safe leave
• Paid parental leave