New Venture Creation Design Strategist
Overview BBVA is a global financial group with more than 135,000 employees and 67 million customers across 35 countries. BBVA is on a mission to be the world's #1 digital bank. BBVA is building the foremost digital banking franchise worldwide. BBVA's New Digital Businesses (NDB) is a global business unit that is disrupting the banking and financial services industry by investing in, partnering with, incubating, and acquiring fintech start-ups. With offices in Madrid, San Francisco, Hong Kong and London, NDB is a key piece of BBVA's global innovation initiative. Through NDB, BBVA has acquired Simple (US), Holvi (Finland), and Openpay (Mexico). It owns a substantial stake in Atom (UK). It invests in fintechs like Prosper, Personal Capital, and Coinbase through its venture capital arm, Propel Venture Partners. And it is incubating a number of cutting-edge fintech start-ups including a bank-as-a-service platform that will allow developers to access the bank's core processes via open APIs. Responsibilities
Our Team
The New Venture Creation (NVC) team at BBVA has the responsibility to launch a portfolio of disruptive digital businesses. NVC is part of NDB, which in turn is part of Customer Solutions at BBVA. This requires a hybrid approach to coming up with new business ideas that looks at feasibility, desirability, and viability. The requirements are complex: For each, the team needs to act quickly to design a path to market traction. It is imperative that the NVC team find positive unit economics. The disruptive opportunities that are considered require adopting a creative mindset. The team will need to be knowledgeable on financial services and find an adjacent opportunity to banking. As such BBVA is growing a group of designers, business strategist, and researchers in San Francisco who can take on this unique work.
What you will do:
The Manager, NDB New Ventures San Francisco will play a key role in supporting the strategic and operational needs of the NDB New Ventures as we drive a portfolio of new ventures from ideation to commercialization. More about the role:
Ideation using Venture Design, a combination of design thinking and agile approaches (50%)
Work with Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIR) to understand the power of design thinking and to identify new business opportunities
Plan co-creation sessions during Ideation Cycle, including identifying the right attendees, planning the format, agenda, tools and techniques
Facilitate the co-creation workshops, ensuring the objectives are achieved
Co-ordinate the outputs from the Ideation Cycle, including the creation of a prototype (typically within 12 weeks)
Collaborate with multiple partners to get buy-in to the EIR's vision and rapidly prototype solutions
Support the EIR in the creation of a business case and creation of business plans
Planning (10%)
Co-ordinate with Experience Design team to ensure that an appropriate research plan is built and executed
Work across the triangle to lead the definition of a minimum viable product (MVP) that can typically be achieved in 12 months or less.
Work with EIR and Business Strategist to build a roadmap beyond the MVP
Delivery (20%)
Support the Head of Venture Design to ensure that project is progressing to plan
Facilitate problem solving, always maintaining the focus on the EIR's vision and the consumer/customer's unmet needs
Ensure that design research strategies are included across the delivery phases
Co-Create workshop materials such as powerpoint and keynote
Champion of Venture Design (20%)
Remain abreast of new trends in a wide range of topics, such as global, market, industry, design, digital/technology, social trends
Share, evangelize and incorporate latest trends into BBVA's toolkit and methodologies
Ensure sharing of knowledge across the team, building the collective toolkit and experiences
Be able to think about the business and not just a product
Design for scale and rapid growth
Qualifications
Bilingual (verbal/written) English/Spanish preferred
Experience working in a startup experience preferred.
2-5 years experience working in advertising strategy, design strategy, digital and/or product roles with an emphasis on storyboarding and journey mapping exercises
Experienced in design thinking, service design methodologies
Combination of creative/innovation and delivery oriented
Generalist background different departments, industries and companies / MBA / MFA or equivalent preferred
Experience leading large projects, external and internal
Key personal traits tenacity, interpersonal and communication skills, team worker, leading from the front, building relationships
Be able to support flexible hours to accommodate project peaks/troughs and different time zones
Knowledge of fintech trends and macro-level developments in financial services
. Apply now!Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
Our Team
The New Venture Creation (NVC) team at BBVA has the responsibility to launch a portfolio of disruptive digital businesses. NVC is part of NDB, which in turn is part of Customer Solutions at BBVA. This requires a hybrid approach to coming up with new business ideas that looks at feasibility, desirability, and viability. The requirements are complex: For each, the team needs to act quickly to design a path to market traction. It is imperative that the NVC team find positive unit economics. The disruptive opportunities that are considered require adopting a creative mindset. The team will need to be knowledgeable on financial services and find an adjacent opportunity to banking. As such BBVA is growing a group of designers, business strategist, and researchers in San Francisco who can take on this unique work.
What you will do:
The Manager, NDB New Ventures San Francisco will play a key role in supporting the strategic and operational needs of the NDB New Ventures as we drive a portfolio of new ventures from ideation to commercialization. More about the role:
Ideation using Venture Design, a combination of design thinking and agile approaches (50%)
Work with Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIR) to understand the power of design thinking and to identify new business opportunities
Plan co-creation sessions during Ideation Cycle, including identifying the right attendees, planning the format, agenda, tools and techniques
Facilitate the co-creation workshops, ensuring the objectives are achieved
Co-ordinate the outputs from the Ideation Cycle, including the creation of a prototype (typically within 12 weeks)
Collaborate with multiple partners to get buy-in to the EIR's vision and rapidly prototype solutions
Support the EIR in the creation of a business case and creation of business plans
Planning (10%)
Co-ordinate with Experience Design team to ensure that an appropriate research plan is built and executed
Work across the triangle to lead the definition of a minimum viable product (MVP) that can typically be achieved in 12 months or less.
Work with EIR and Business Strategist to build a roadmap beyond the MVP
Delivery (20%)
Support the Head of Venture Design to ensure that project is progressing to plan
Facilitate problem solving, always maintaining the focus on the EIR's vision and the consumer/customer's unmet needs
Ensure that design research strategies are included across the delivery phases
Co-Create workshop materials such as powerpoint and keynote
Champion of Venture Design (20%)
Remain abreast of new trends in a wide range of topics, such as global, market, industry, design, digital/technology, social trends
Share, evangelize and incorporate latest trends into BBVA's toolkit and methodologies
Ensure sharing of knowledge across the team, building the collective toolkit and experiences
Be able to think about the business and not just a product
Design for scale and rapid growth
Qualifications
Bilingual (verbal/written) English/Spanish preferred
Experience working in a startup experience preferred.
2-5 years experience working in advertising strategy, design strategy, digital and/or product roles with an emphasis on storyboarding and journey mapping exercises
Experienced in design thinking, service design methodologies
Combination of creative/innovation and delivery oriented
Generalist background different departments, industries and companies / MBA / MFA or equivalent preferred
Experience leading large projects, external and internal
Key personal traits tenacity, interpersonal and communication skills, team worker, leading from the front, building relationships
Be able to support flexible hours to accommodate project peaks/troughs and different time zones
Knowledge of fintech trends and macro-level developments in financial services
. Apply now!Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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