Foresight & Design Lead

Born and based in Barcelona, Nacar is an award-winning Strategic Design Agency, impassioned by our agile and international team composed of over 90 creative professionals (design strategists, researchers, product and UX / UI designers, engineers, and overall creatives).

We work with all-size clients from across multiple industries, collaborating in innovation and establishing solutions and product strategies that apply to Industrial, Digital, Brand and Service Design.

We also contribute to their digitalization, by conceptualizing and prototyping new, human centered products and services around technological capabilities.

With a hybrid-work model and flexible working hours
, we are powered by a culture of communication, collaboration, proactivity and positivity, always aiming to humanize technology experiences and to transform into the phygital future.

Our offices, an urban oasis, are located in the beautiful Palo Alto
, an old factory in Poblenou, restored and converted into studios for designers and artists.

Nacar was made to be a place where people can grow and impact the world
, and we’re in continuous growth to always provide our best.

Our team is connected by common challenges, eager to discover, envision and materialize new opportunities. Is this something you feel identified with?

We're currently looking for a Foresight and Future Design Lead to lead our strategic vertical s is a role that combines two things that rarely go together: the ability to read the world before others do, and the discipline to translate that reading into rigorous and profitable projects.

You'll lead with your centre of gravity in foresight: opening up territories of opportunity that others can't see. You'll be the strategic voice that clients look for when they don't yet know what to ask.

You will:

• Act as the vertical's antenna — maintaining a live, first‑hand reading of the landscape: trends, weak signals, emerging behaviours and technologies reshaping industries.

• Own the Future Opportunity Radar methodology: opportunity radars, future scenarios, tech‑to‑value mapping and concept provocation cards.

• Build editorial presence beyond decks — writing, speaking and publishing with your own voice to elevate the Nacar brand.

• Lead the strategic quality of the services within the vertical:
  Future Opportunity Radar (your natural territory),
  Insight Engines (research that unlocks real needs) and Product Strategy (defining what to build, under what service logic, and how it evolves).

• Provide strategic direction and elevate criteria in services where you're not the hands‑on specialist — relying on strategists and researchers from the team to deliver.

• Lead the most ambiguous projects within the vertical — those requiring reframing and vision
  , not just method.

• Direct multidisciplinary squads activated by project, elevating the level of everyone working with you — leadership by gravity, not by hierarchy.

• Ensure blueprints
  , roadmaps and research reports have real density and deliver actionable value.

• Manage timelines
  , resources and expectations to keep the vertical profitable.

• Act as a trusted
  advisor to C‑level clients — sitting with CXOs, Heads of Strategy and Heads of Innovation, sustaining the conversation as an equal.

• Open doors that the rest of the team can't.

• Turn foresight
  findings into new service proposals — identifying where clients need more help before they ask.

• Partner with the commercial team on pre‑sales of strategic accounts, contributing brief reframing and methodological framing

• 5+ years of experience in strategic design or innovation consulting
  - Ideally with time spent at a generalist player that gave you fluency in business language.

• Hybrid career path across the 3 disciplines of the vertical:
  foresight
  , user research
  , and product definition. You don't have to be an expert in all four — but you understand them deeply enough to lead and challenge.

• Structural
  curiosity
  : you don't just read trends, you decode them. You connect seemingly disconnected signals and build solid arguments.

• Authority without arrogance
  : you can hold your ground with a C‑level client without…