Director of Experience Design

The Slalom STLXD team is committed to making a positive impact in Saint Louis through design. Our tight-knit group of designers are world changers at heart.

We lead design-for-good activities. We nurture the organizational design maturity of STL businesses. And we seek to make things better than we found them while creating new products and experiences with the full power of Slalom capabilities.

Here, you will help the team grow their design capabilities and deliver design work leading your team by example, while helping our clients dream bigger, move faster, to build better tomorrows for all.

This role will require the individual to be local to St. Louis, Missouri, working at the Slalom office and being onsite with our clients.

What You’ll Do

• Part of leading a design studio with a high level of autonomy, within the safety and guardrails of a large high-growth organization.
• Pitch and sell design thinking work, and cross-capability.
• Develop go-to-market approaches with blended capabilities and solution work to grow our business and create meaningful work for your team.
• Deliver advisory services and hands-on design work such as innovation workshops, product discovery, conceptual prototyping, and research.
• Oversee delivery work as an Account Executive.
• Develop key relationships with design and business leaders in STL and internal account teams and practice peers to drive design outcomes.
• Lead high-profile discovery work and oversee the capability of Experience Design by working with select client and delivery teams.
• Help contribute to the STL Design Community to lift up STL through design.
• Some travel is required (rare).

What You’ll Bring

• A competitive spirit, a desire to win, the hustle, and a healthy amount of optimism.
• Deep experience in the professional services sales process (for example : creating SOWs, and pitches) with deals $1M+.
• Natural ability to evangelize on the value of design.
• Experience taking calculated business risks.
• Existing STL relationships (nice to have).
• Experience building trust with clients through facilitated workshops that lead to follow on business outcomes.
• Experience working with research and design capabilities in both corporate environments and smaller startups, at varying stages of design maturity.
• Understanding of adjacent and emerging capabilities, Product Strategy, GENAI, and Data
• Experience creating high-performing teams and creating psychological safety.
• People leadership experience (leader of leaders).

About Us

Slalom is a purpose-led, global business and technology consulting company. From strategy to implementation, our approach is fiercely human.

In six countries and 43 markets, we deeply understand our customers and their customers to deliver practical, end-to-end solutions that drive meaningful impact.

Backed by close partnerships with over 400 leading technology providers, our 13,000+ strong team helps people and organizations dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all.

We’re honored to be consistently recognized as a great place to work, including being one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For seven years running.

Learn more at slalom.com.

Compensation and Benefits

Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short / long-term disability.

We also offer a yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.

EEO and Accommodations

Slalom is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to inclusion, diversity, and equity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities.

Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process.

We will accept applications on an ongoing basis until a candidate is selected for the position.

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