Dentsu America

Strategic Business Designer, Business Transformation

Dentsu America$123K — $186K *
US-Anywhere
+ 7 other locationsRemote
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Mastery of structured problem-solving models and change management methodologies
  • Practical understanding of generative AI workflows and predictive analytics
  • Competency in design thinking and collaboration with UX/UI teams
  • Exceptional capability to craft persuasive presentations and data visualizations
  • Deep expertise in advanced marketing attribution models and measuring financial impact of business transformation initiatives
  • University degree in Business, Marketing, Computer Science, or Media Studies
  • 10+ years in management consulting, business transformation, or digital product strategy

Responsibilities

  • Lead global pitches and new-business pursuits for the BX practice
  • Develop relationships with senior executives, including C-level stakeholders
  • Author and curate next-generation BX materials and frameworks
  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams for digital media product strategy
  • Translate complex data into actionable narratives for global teams
  • Create impactful case studies and proof points for clients
  • Maintain ownership of diagnostic frameworks and intellectual property for the practice

Benefits

  • Medical, vision, and dental insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance
  • 401k
  • Flexible paid time off
  • At least 15 paid holidays per year
  • Paid sick and safe leave
  • Paid parental leave
Full Job Description

Job Description:

Context 

The BX practice acts as a strategic advisory unit for the client C-Suite focusing on a range of topics around corporate transformation from purpose and vision, sustainability, the growth of an existing business, creation of new businesses and internal transformations. It helps to bring the very best of the network to clients to solve their business challenges. In response to the change in how businesses engage with consumers, Dentsu is therefore set up to offer clients a cohesive end-to-end service which meets clients’ needs of speed, quality and value in a digital-first environment.  

Opportunity & Role Purpose

We are seeking a visionary Strategic Business Designer to join our global Business Transformation (BX) Team. In this role, you will drive international growth and organizational evolution for our clients, acting as an internal transformation advisor. You will blend structured management consulting principles with cutting-edge technology and human-centric product design. Working within a core BX Team, you will translate complex global market data into compelling, high-stakes narratives that secure stakeholder buy-in, modernize our operational models, and scale cross-border revenue streams and products.

Core Responsibilities

  • Pitch Leadership: Act as the BX lead on priority global pitches and new-business pursuits. Bring the BX point of view into the room early, probe and reframe business challenge with agility, imagination, and purpose.

  • Senior Client Engagement: Build trusted-advisor relationships at the CMO, CSO, and CEO level. Run diagnostic sessions alongside account teams and move client relationships into enterprise strategy.

  • Codifying the BX body of work: Serve as the primary author and keeper of next-generation BX materials. Turn the practice’s thinking and live client work into frameworks, points of view, and signature assets that carry the BX brand and get reused across markets.

  • Product-Led Transformation Strategy: Partner with cross-functional product and engineering teams to drive the discovery, user journey mapping, and design of next-generation digital media products and ad formats.

  • Strategic Narrative Design: Translate complex transformation roadmaps, regional data sets, and technical insights into a clear internal narrative that aligns decentralized global teams behind a shared point of view.

  • Case studies and proof points: BX-grade case studies with named clients, and outcomes.

  • Signature IP: Develop and maintain the practice’s owned assets, including diagnostic frameworks and any published index.

Key Skills & Requirements

  • Consulting & BX Frameworks: Mastery of structured problem-solving models (e.g., MECE, Issue Trees, SWOT) and change management methodologies to navigate ambiguous corporate environments.

  • AI & Tech Literacy: Practical understanding of generative AI workflows, algorithmic audience targeting, predictive analytics, and emerging media channels.

  • Product Design Principles: Competency in design thinking, rapid prototyping concepts, and collaborating with UX/UI teams to enhance digital platform engagement.

  • Storytelling Prowess: Exceptional capability to craft persuasive presentations and data visualizations that influence C-suite stakeholders and drive transformation buy-in.

  • Commercial & Transformation Acumen: Deep expertise in advanced marketing attribution models, Media Mix Modelling (MMM), and measuring the financial impact of business transformation initiatives.

Desired Background

  • Education: University degree in Business, Marketing, Computer Science, Media Studies.

  • Experience: 10+ years of experience in management consulting, business transformation, digital product strategy, or corporate strategy.

The annual salary range for this position is $123,000-$186,000. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law.

Benefits available with this position include:

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance,

• Life insurance,

• Short-term and long-term disability insurance,

• 401k,

• Flexible paid time off,

• At least 15 paid holidays per year,

• Paid sick and safe leave, and

• Paid parental leave.

Location:

USA - Remote - New York

Brand:

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent

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Dentsu is a Japanese public relations and advertising firm that offers communication-related solutions and services such as management and business consulting.

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