# Senior Business Designer

**Company:** [Ideo](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ideo)
**Location:** Chicago, IL
**Role:** Product Management
**Salary:** $100k – $120k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Business Modeling, Go-to-Market Strategy, Market Analysis, Financial Analysis, Product Strategy, Strategy Consulting, Venture Building, Human-Centered Design, AI Tools, Data Synthesis
**Posted:** 2026-05-15

> Designs viable business models, value propositions, and go-to-market strategies for new products, services, and ventures. Conducts market analysis, synthesizes insights into actionable narratives, and leads multidisciplinary teams to drive client innovation from concept to execution. Requires 4+ years in strategy, product management, or related fields.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Creatively problem-solve by generating new ideas, business models, value propositions, etc., exploring unconventional or hidden solutions in a business context
- Design viable business models, value propositions, and go-to-market strategies for new products, services, and ventures
- Build an understanding of IDEO’s client organizations, and partner with clients to drive change and innovation within their teams and organizations
- Conduct market, competitive, and financial analysis to identify new and emerging opportunities, inform decisions, shape business cases, and build conviction for new ideas
- Synthesize research, data, and insights into clear narratives that guide decision-making and align stakeholders
- Translate complexity into action by developing and leading experiments or pilots that produce insights to help identify and create innovation roadmaps to scale recommendations in real-world contexts
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams with designers across all creative and technical disciplines (design research, interaction design, data science, communication design, etc.)
- Facilitate client workshops and conversations that drive alignment, momentum, and strategic decisions
- Continuously grow with, as well as upskill, the Business Design craft through knowledge sharing and bringing unique perspectives to the greater IDEO community

## Requirements
- A minimum of 4 years of full-time working experience – in strategy consulting, venture design, product strategy, product management, product innovation, corporate strategy, business insights, business analytics, business planning, go-to market, and/or growth strategy
- Strong business acumen; i.e., broad knowledge or exposure to **strategy**, **marketing**, **finance**, **operations**, **product development**, **organizational design**, etc — MBA beneficial but not required
- Experience in business design, strategy, product management, venture building, or innovation roles
- Ability to creatively problem-solve in a business context, i.e. generate multiple alternative ways to address feasibility, viability, and desirability, including ways that are not obvious
- Comfort working in ambiguous situations with limited direction, independently shaping problem definitions and approaches
- Ability to interpret and communicate complex business ideas to different audiences, through text, visual, and verbal communications
- Experience working across stakeholders and influencing decisions in complex organizations
- Track record in making ideas real and tangible, from concept to execution roadmap, as an entrepreneur and/or intrapreneur, and bringing others along with you
- Strength in synthesizing qualitative and quantitative data into clear insights, recommendations and narratives, making potential impact clear and supporting decision making across options
- Strong storytelling and strategic narrative-building skills

## Nice-to-haves
- Direct experience applying human-centered design approaches, or signals of this skillset
- Leadership in bringing a new product or venture to market (0→1)
- Familiarity with tools (including **AI**) to accelerate thinking and workflow
- Client centricity (direct experience or signals of this skillset)
- Experience with venture building, incubation, innovation labs or product/service development
- Experience in relevant industries (financial services, healthcare, technology, manufacturing), with an understanding of complex environments such as regulation, risk, and product innovation

## Compensation
**Salary range: $100,000-120,000 USD**

**Benefits:**
- Health Benefits: Vision, Dental, Healthcare
- Financial Benefits: 401K matching
- Family & Caregiving: Parental Leave, Adoption Assistance, Fertility Assistance, Transgender Medical Assistance, Breastmilk shipment, Back-up/Dependent Care, Pet Insurance

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