**What if we didn't focus on who you are now, but who you could become?**
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We bring together extraordinary people, like you, to build a better working world.
**What's in it for you?**
We are looking for a Design Startegy Associate within the EY Wavespace team. The role can be based in our Sydney office.
The Design Strategy Associate role is a part of the EY wavespace a design team that includes a Design Strategy Lead, Design Strategists and Visual Designers. Critical to this role is the ability to understand the strategic outcomes a client is seeking and delivering the creative and experience design elements to support the team to achieve those outcomes.
With the Experience Leader and Experience Managers, the Design Strategy Associate's role is to work with EY teams and clients to scope desired outcomes, and design and deliver an immersive, collaborative experience to achieve those results. The Design Strategy Associate is responsible for the development and rollout of experience design elements. This includes:
- Designing strategies and activities to meet client outcomes, including how we bring the work to life in creative and immersive ways
- Leading the experiential elements of sessions, including environmental, spatial, visual, and emotional
- Owning and leading the development of all critical session inputs, managing, inspiring and insightfully challenging EY teams and clients through the process
- Leading the development of experience deliverables and outputs with engagement teams and clients
**Key aspects of the role are-**
- Work alongside Experience Leaders, Managers, and a broader delivery team to define strategy and design for client engagements (sessions and experiences)
- Work with Experience Leaders and Managers to help clients understand and articulate their vision, then design strategies to meet it
- Communicate complex technical concepts simply and effectively to all audiences using a wide range of formats
- Support clients in the use of collaboration software being used in the client experience
- Participate in weekly and monthly global wavespace meetings.
- Contribute to the global experiences library.
**What we're looking for**
Here's our 'wish list' but don't worry if you don't tick all the boxes. We're interested in your strengths, what you want to learn, and how far you want to go.
- 3-5 years professional experience in a client or customer facing role
- Experience working on multiple projects at one time.
- Strong business acumen, including forethought, capacity for creativity, and adaptability
- Knowledge of design thinking and other human-centred methods and the ability to solve complex business problems with simple, industry-leading experience and design solutions.
- Ability to use a range of creative design platforms and tooling
- Certification Requirements:
- Completion of EY waverhood training
- Completion of EY Innovation - Design Thinking Badge within 1 year of hire.
**What we can offer you**
**Acknowledgement of Country**
**The exceptional EY experience. It's yours to build.**
Our preferred applicant will be required to undertake employment screening by EY or our external third-party provider.
**EY | Building a better working world**
- Our preferred applicant will be required to undertake employment screening by EY or our external third-party provider._