Cairo, Egypt
BUSINESS DESIGNER
IN A NUTSHELL
We’re always looking to meet designers, analysts, creatives and strategists with the passion to enhance human experience. In this role, you will follow an insight-driven approach to design, prototype, and test breakthrough solutions that drive innovation. You will get exposure to and/or be involved in all parts of the design process: proposal writing, client relationship development, user research, concept design, prototyping, and innovation blueprinting.
ABOUT ERGO
ERGO is a strategy and innovation consulting firm. We are committed to advancing human experience through design and innovation. By restoring focus on human-centricity, and unearthing key market and behavioral insights, we help our clients conceptualize and deliver breakthrough innovations.
Our diversity gives us the competitive advantage to explore challenges from unique perspectives. Our stronghold in behavior design allows us to build powerful insights that help our clients anticipate, adapt and design in an uncertain future.
ONCE YOU JOIN US, YOU WILL
- Collaborate with clients to understand their business goals, challenges and opportunity domain.
- Untangle challenge complexity through a systems thinking approach and a human-centered design mindset.
- Conduct bespoke qualitative research, using ethnographic research tools, and making unique and analogous connections that inspire new thinking directions.
- Capture hidden insights from research data, turning insights into strategic design opportunities.
- Collaborate with a diverse group of researchers and designers to create and explore new opportunities that live at the intersection of multiple domains.
- Co-create innovative solutions and business models that enhance the human experience.
- Prototype and pilot conceptual designs to build confidence in proposed solutions.
- Design innovation blueprints to help clients bring new solutions to life, and drive innovation.
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE & MINDSET
- You are curious, a life-long learner, eager to expand your knowledge, and thrive to create new meaning by examining the intersections between multiple disciplines.
- You have a strong understanding of human-centered design principles, and the value it can bring to different markets and industries.
- You have experience with a variety of design research tools and techniques, including ethnographic observation, empathy interviews, extreme user research, storytelling, analogous inspiration … etc
- You adopt a business growth mindset, with an ability to look for and identify good business opportunities/ partnerships.
- You are passionate about understanding motivations and drivers behind people’s choices and behavior.
- You embrace ambiguity, and have the courage to explore unfamiliar terrain to craft clarity.
- You are creative, yet analytical to ensure a deep understanding of the challenge space … innovative, yet strategic to ensure effective execution in the solution space.
- You have a bias towards action, and approach challenges with a prototyping and experimentation mindset.
- You thrive in a collaborative team environment, and build collaborations across boundaries to co-create new possibilities.
READY TO APPLY?
Please submit your resume and a cover letter, highlighting your most relevant experiences, and why you believe you are the right fit.
Please ensure that your cover letter is no longer than 350 words. Resumes submitted without a cover letter will not be considered.