Associate Partner - McKinsey Digital - DnA

Who You'll Work With

You'll be based in one of our EEMA offices as part of McKinsey Digital. This
group brings together the best of McKinsey's digital capabilities to help our
clients use digital technology to transform their businesses.
You'll join a global team working on everything from IT modernization and
strategy to agile, cloud, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. You'll
typically work on projects across all industries and functions and will be
fully integrated with the rest of our global firm. You'll also work with
colleagues from across McKinsey & Company to help our clients deliver
breakthrough products, experiences, and businesses, both on technology and
non-technology topics.
Our design team offers the breadth and experiences of ‎350+ world-class design
talent from Lunar Design, Veryday and McKinsey's homegrown experience design
practice. At McKinsey Digital, we bring a diverse community of designers and
innovators passionate about getting in the midst of our customers and
elevating design capabilities to the forefront of business decisions, impact
and results.
Our office culture is casual and social, with an emphasis on education and
innovation. We have the freedom to try new ideas, experiment and are expected
to be constantly learning and growing. There is also a strong emphasis on
mentoring others in the group, enabling them to grow and learn.

What You'll Do

You will work on a variety of projects that integrate digital designs into
products, services and environments.
In this role, you will be part of a blended cross-functional team and tackle
all aspects of the design process, help to lead client engagements and guiding
other members of their design team. Moving from insights to ideas, you will
creatively solve complex problems, threading design and business thinking
together to deliver inventive, durable and thoughtful, solutions from concept
to launch. You will need to apply conceptual thinking to create desirable and
feasible digital solutions across multiple platforms, smartly bringing
together user needs, business goals and technical realities.
You'll utilize industry design standards and best practices to define and
implement design criteria. You'll apply user centered design methodologies to
ensure your ideas are based on customer needs, and you'll prepare research and
testing, produce personas, map customer journeys, develop service blueprints,
for complex products and services.
Additionally, you will effectively communicate research findings, conceptual
ideas, detailed design, and design rationale both verbally and visually.
You'll use a variety of methods to convey ideas and concepts (e.g.,
storyboards, wireframes, prototypes, etc.). You'll use your narration and
storytelling skills to bring product ideas to life, and you'll construct quick
interactive prototypes with initial, low fidelity visual designs that
illustrate your UX/UI design that present a realistic feel of the intended
experience.
You will also be expected to perform task analysis and define the UI design
through information architecture, wireframes and user flows and validate it
through usability testing, to lead usability testing sessions, consolidate
findings and iteratively integrate into design solutions- You will mentor
others and capability build to cultivate and support them through their path
at McKinsey.
Lastly, you'll also participate in workshops, concept sprints and hackathons
to inject design thinking tools and methodologies to produce tangible results.
You'll work closely with development teams to ensure that design
specifications are implemented, and you'll communicate the product's vision to
clients and customers.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in design, human-computer interaction, user experience, or related fields


• ‎10+ years of industry experience designing applications, experiences, websites, products, and services that balance user needs, business objectives, and technological constraints


• Strong interaction and visual design skills


• Hands-on experience with rapid design and prototyping tools such as FIGMA, Sketch, InVision, etc.


• A human-centered approach to product and service design, from research and insight generation to concept to deliverable


• Proven ability to work in and orchestrate high-performing project teams with individuals of diverse backgrounds


• Integrity and professionalism in dealing with confidential information


• Ability to synthesize input from multiple authors


• Ability to communicate crisply and clearly with partners and other firm leadership


• Superior communication and collaboration skills