Strategy Director - Part Time - Temporary

Gensler is a global design firm committed to holistically improving the human experience. Guided by determined optimism, we use the power of design to spark positive change and create futures that promote equity, resilience, and wellbeing for everyone. Design Strategy at Gensler is a multi-disciplinary practice focused on enabling transformation - our creative and collaborative approach, supported by data and research, enables impactful change and evolution of our clients' organization, culture, and environment.

Gensler's value is rendered optimally when a client faces disruption. We reveal the conditions of their business, culture, and environment, and work with them to design an unexpected solution with real impact. Our clients span a variety of industries across the sectors of workplace, healthcare, hospitality, entertainment, education, retail, public and community.

Our services provide a broad range of innovation expertise including the inventing and implementing of futures; the design and building of capability; the assessment and activation of culture; and the planning and adoption of specialty spaces for innovation. We are looking for an established Strategy Director to join this group of creative entrepreneurs. Our passion as a collective is to unlock the potential in all of us.

We ask that you are curious, authentic, agile, strategic, design savvy and detail oriented. You are ideally energized about being a leader in the acceleration of bringing Gensler's full value and potential to market.

As Strategy Director in the Columbus office, you will direct projects with a level of professionalism, confidence and visionary ability to yield bespoke results for each opportunity. You will establish the relationship with the client and garner their trust so that they continue to see Gensler as their go-to innovation advisor. You will imagine what's possible and create clarity so that the client, team and partners can all collectively also see this vision so strongly that they know exactly how to move towards it.

You will lead by example and influence the culture of the team with positivity, fearlessness and inclusivity. You will work closely with the Innovation Director, Studio Director and your peer Strategy Directors to champion the development and scaling of the business within the firm and the market. You should have an aptitude and experience to deliver projects across the broad range of Innovation Consulting services analogous to foresight and futures-casting;

capability building; organizational design and culture strategy; experience strategy and design; change management and change activation.

This is a part-time and temporary role.

You’re passionate about innovation, business, and design - and its impact on individuals and organizations. As a leader, you’re able to inspire your clients, teams, and co-collaborators. You’re comfortable with ambiguity and able to forge a path on projects that may have vague parameters or frequently change/evolve. Experience and empathy enables you to successfully work with a wide range of stakeholders from Executives to Business Leaders in Real Estate, Technology, HR, Corporate Communications, as well as directly with business Units.

You’re able to lead clients through complex challenges, frame potential options, and enable them to make informed decisions. As an excellent collaborator, you’re able to work successfully with a range of other disciplines and experts. You’re a persuasive communicator and an authority on relevant trends, research, and other examples. You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, open, collaborative environment and can lead multiple projects simultaneously.

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