Strategic Designer
Who Are We?
Innovation is one of the main drivers of the sustainable success of Daimler. Lab1886 was established in 2007 as Daimler Business Innovation. Since then, the lab has supported the company with innovative business models to master the challenges of the future. Lab1886 - the global innovation machinery - continues the tradition of this culture of innovation. It is the nucleus of a global innovation ecosystem where new business models are conceived, tested and made fit for the market. Many of the business models that are firmly rooted in the company today were created here for example, Car2Go, Moovel, She's Mercedes or the Mercedes-Benz energy storage system. Within Lab1886 you have the chance to develop new business models in the fields of mobility and beyond and bring them to life.
What Do We Offer?
- The best of both worlds: start-up-like working models and the full breath of expertise from a global corporation
- High level of creativity and a broad set of responsibilities from the first spark of a new idea to customer testing to setup of a new project
- A strong team spirit, based on open feedback and the courage to try out new things
- The chance to shape the future of mobility with new business models in the area of Connected, Autonomous, Shared & Services and Electric (CASE) and beyond
As a Senior Strategic Designer, you will:
- Support product management in deciding on the strategic direction of the products and services of the venture
- Assess user feedback and conduct concept testing to iteratively improve the ventures offering
- Independent processing of difficult and complex design challenges
- Elaboration of design research and -strategy approaches
- Execution of usability tests and documentation of insights to let them flow back into product & processes
- Provision of input to product definition (e.g. for MVP)
As a Strategic Designer, you will need:
- Roles in startup, large digital companies or in an agency. Ideally including experience as founder
- Proven ability to succeed in various project tasks in postgradual roles
- A master’s degree (design, psychology, social sciences, or equivalent from a toptier institution)
- Significant experience with ethnographic research (quantitative and qualitative), divergent exploration, conceptual development, and industrial design •
- Experience in delivering complex strategic design projects including product
