Freelance - Senior business designer (Australia - remote)
Board of Innovation, Australia

Board of Innovation is an independently owned business design and innovation strategy firm with offices in New York, Antwerp and Singapore. We partner with the world’s largest organizations to solve their biggest challenges through meaningful innovation. We do this by developing growth strategies, innovation capabilities, and new businesses.

Thanks to our years in the field, we know that innovation doesn’t need to be sexy to work. You won’t get innovation theatre from us. Our strategists and business designers are fully committed to delivering return on innovation.

Board of Innovation APAC is expanding and is looking to build a freelance pool with business design talent to join forces for ad hoc big innovation projects (f.e. designing and running corporate accelerators), as well as to develop new business opportunities with corporate clients.

We consider the job description below a starting point for yours :

• You work closely with prospective corporate partners and our teams to design, structure and execute corporate innovation programs and transformations
• You support corporate innovation teams in their quest for new business opportunities. Jointly, you turn these opportunities into significant business value and results (by breaking down a problem into smaller chunks and smoothing out the front end of the ‘innovation funnel’, coaching corporate innovation teams in agile, lean startup, design thinking methodologies, etc.).
• You facilitate product amp; innovation teams in a structured and agile way. You guide them through the different phases of innovative product or service developments.
• You grow meaningful long-term partnerships and anticipate their challenges in innovation, you develop successful innovation strategies, as well as identify, conceptualize and create new product-market combinations.

Requirements

• You have startup or innovation experience: you thrive in ambiguity, enjoy working at start up speed, are results orientated and get things done
• You have a strong background in (corporate) innovation (eg as an innovation consultant, business model innovation expert, business designer, human-centered designer, design strategist, start-up founder, product manager, ) and you can comfortably challenge C-level on their innovation strategy
• You have an academic background in Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Design, Business, Technology or a related field
• Having worked in a consultancy or agency is a big plus
• You are fluent in English. Other languages like Mandarin are an asset.
• You identify strongly with our mission, values and culture
• You are credible, you easily connect with people and you have a to-the-point communication style
• You are eligible to work in Australia (Australian national or eligible to work)

Benefits

Why work at Board of Innovation?

• You enjoy working on the most amazing innovation projects with Fortune 500 corporates (like Roche, AB Inbev, Adidas, Philips, Danone, ING, Unicef, Toyota, Almarai and many more)
• You thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and want to contribute to our overall business strategies and growth.
• You want numerous on-the-job-and-beyond learning opportunities
• You look for a place where you can be your whole self, and become part of a highly talented, ambitious, (from time to time hilarious) international and diverse team (22 different nationalities and counting!)
• You are eager to build a global professional network through our offices and clients worldwide (New York, Singapore, Antwerp), while appreciating Australia as your base.
• You will get a market-conform remuneration package, benchmarked with local standards.

Board of Innovation recognises the positive value of diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We welcome and encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.

Interested? Read more about our culture, mission and values!

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