Senior Business Designer

🏢 Ideo · 📍 Chicago, IL 💰 $100,000 - $100,000 / yr

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

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IDEO Chicago is in search of a Senior Business Designer who will frame complex business problems, translate insights into viable growth opportunities, and drive ideas toward real-world activation.

The role:

At IDEO, we help clients move forward when the path isn’t clear — whether driven by ambition, responding to disruption, or breaking out of entrenched ways of working.

As a Senior Business Designer, you’ll help teams and organizations turn bold ideas into viable, real-world outcomes — shaping new products, services, and ventures while building the business models, strategies, and pathways to bring them to market. Working across the spectrum from insight to execution, you’ll use business tools, systems thinking, entrepreneurial creativity, and strategic analysis to drive competitive advantage and strategic growth for our clients.

The right person for this role has strong business acumen and strategic instincts, with experience in growth strategy, product management, go-to-market execution, or venture creation. They’re comfortable navigating ambiguity, working with multi-disciplinary teams, influencing senior stakeholders and building conviction for new ideas. They quickly understand how a business creates and captures value, connecting market insights, customer needs, and financial drivers into compelling strategies — moving work forward with the right balance of rigor and creativity to drive real impact.

Why is this role important for IDEO’s work?

Business Designers make the biggest impact by turning ambiguity into clarity and connecting insights to commercially viable opportunities. Their skillset is critical to our work because they bring together strategy, business decision making, market understanding and business model thinking to help clients create and capture value. We count on them to move work beyond ideas into action and provide clear, informed pathways for winning investments.

Once here you will:

Creatively problem-solve by generating new ideas, viable business models, value propositions and go-to-market strategies for new products, services, and ventures, exploring unconventional or hidden solutions in a business context
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 analy

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Ideo Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Evaluating human-centered design capabilities, collaborative synthesis of ambiguous problems, and the humility to prototype and fail fast.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Being overly attached to one's own ideas rather than embracing team iteration and user feedback.
2. Approaching design through a purely aesthetic lens without grounding it in rigorous behavioral insights and business viability.
3. Arrogance or lack of self-awareness during collaborative workshop or critique rounds.

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I leverage human-centered design to cut through ambiguity, translating deep user empathy into tangible, game-changing prototypes.

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