Design Expert - Middle East

Who You'll Work With

You will be based in our Riyadh office 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.
As part of this group, 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 Digital McKinsey, 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.

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.
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 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 and develop service blueprints for complex
products and services.
Additionally, you'll 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 bring product ideas to life and 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. Further, you'll perform task analysis and define the User
Interface 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
also mentor others and capability build to cultivate and support them through
their path at McKinsey.
You'll also participate in workshops, concept sprints and hackathons to inject
design thinking tools and methodologies to produce tangible results in a rapid
and iterative way. 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

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


• Ability to conduct user research through interviews, analysis, surveys, usability tests, etc.


• Excellent knowledge of rapid prototyping tools such as Sketch, Axure, Invision or Flinto


• Experience with Agile software development processes and methodologies


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


• Interaction and visual design skills, including use of a diverse set of software such as Adobe CS, Sketch, OmniGraffle, as well as good experience with MS Office


• Connected to the design community with a passion for design


• Proven ability as a solid hands-on practitioner demonstrated through a diverse body of work across a range of leading clients


• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills


• Experience mentoring designers and other members of a cross-functional team with the ability to be a thought partner/coach to clients and the internal team


• Able to function, adapt and succeed in a constantly changing, fast-paced environment


• Positive attitude and motivation to deliver the highest quality of work; entrepreneurial, experimental and self-driven while also being collaborative, with a professional presence


• Self-organized and structured, with the ability to define your own tasks


• Strong influencing, negotiation, and communication skills; strong command of English and French language (both verbal and written)