IDEO is hiring a
Senior Director - Web3 & Decentralized Financial Services

Compensation: $150k - $175k

Location: Remote

Come make an impact with us:

IDEO's financial services practice is searching for a Senior Director to join our leadership team and help shape a more human-centered and inclusive financial world.  This is an opportunity to use your deep expertise in bringing financial products, services, and experiences to market, and the network you’ve built along the way, to help IDEO’s clients innovate and grow and pursue systemic impact across financial services.

Why is this role important for IDEO’s work?

IDEO’s being designing more human-centered financial services for over 20 years - from small ways to save, changing how in-person banking work, or building new offers and ventures. More than ever before, emerging technologies have the potential to reshape and remake the financial system, and we will participate and be a prominent voice in this.

You’ll be joining a national, multidisciplinary team of leaders who believe that the financial service industry has plenty of room to grow to become more human-centered and design-led. And, through that kind of transformation there is an opportunity to make finance more equitable, inclusive, and meaningful to people’s lives. This role is critical to making that vision a reality, through expanding the network of clients and partners we’re working with, to giving our clients the confidence that the work we deliver can be brought to market successfully, to helping to define creative excellence in the industry both inside and outside of IDEO. 

Once here you will:

  • Shape and share our point-of-view on making financial services more human-centered and how the building blocks of decentralized finance/Web3 blockchain technologies can unlock new paradigms and possibilities, our strategy for realizing these ambitions, and the stories of our impact.
  • Own and collaborate in new client relationships and existing partnerships, framing new opportunities to realize impact with clients, and growing our collective network.
  • Scope and guide design engagements to be both creatively fulfilling and successful in creating the intended outcomes in our client organizations. Grow and sustain key relationships that will help push the portfolio of impact. 
  • Working with the rest of the leadership team, hold shared accountability for revenue commitments.
  • Inform IDEO’s capabilities to meet market needs, including collaborating with IDEO designers and leaders to deliver new products, services, and experiences. 
  • Build an inclusive culture and community alongside the existing leadership team, leading and mentoring an extraordinarily talented community of people with a wide variety of creative backgrounds. 

What does IDEO offer you?

IDEO is a place unlike any other. It’s a place where you can solve diverse, complex challenges for our clients or the organization, alongside thoughtful, intelligent individuals who lead with curiosity, empathy, and optimism. Sure we work hard, but we are also intentional about enabling our community to pause, create, and connect. We encourage our community to bring their whole selves to work, respect the need for work-life balance, and allow for autonomy in the design process and your career. 

Some previous work to check out:

American Family Insurance Moonrise

Pacific Life Swell

American Express Pay it. Plan it. 

Last Mile Money

IDEO CoLab Ventures

Relevant experience and mindset:

We are particularly interested in candidates that can demonstrate deep fluency in one or more of the following focus areas:

  • A depth or breadth of 7+ years of experience seeking to improve how financial services work from within the industry, embedding financial services in other experiences (e.g. game design, tech), or influencing the industry from other organizations (e.g. education, non-profit, etc) with at least 2+ years related to Web3
  • Successful candidates will bring a network of relationships/contact, and the ability to describe what good work looks like in the DeFi/Web3 space and communicate this within IDEO and to clients.
  • Progressive leadership experience in developing or launching blockchain products, and fluency and experience in the strategy, design, deployment, and challenges of decentralized finance (DeFi) (e.g. building tools, applications, teams, and/or ventures)
  • Understanding and experience working with DeFi protocols
  • Successful candidates will combine rigorous business acumen with depth of knowledge in one or two of: Strategy, Marketing (Product or Brand), Organizational Behavior, Operations, Information Technology, Finance, and Design.
  • Experience in a client-service or consultative role which might include management consulting, creative services, design, finance or operations.
  • Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.

Commitment to Diversity

At IDEO, we are committed to the work of advancing diversity, equity and inclusion within our organization and in the world. Our purpose of having disproportionate, world-changing impact through design is directly connected to our ability to bring many different perspectives to the table. This applies to our candidates, the people we hire, the clients and customers we serve, and the communities we learn from in our research.

As a human-centered organization, we are committed to working with and designing for people of every race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socio-economic status, physical ability or attribute, religion, national origin, or political belief. We recognize that this commitment requires ongoing work and sustained attention, as well as adaptation to new insights and best practices. We keep our diversity data public for the sake of accountability and transparency. These commitments will also be part of your journey at IDEO, so please feel free to read more about them here. 

Application requirements and instructions:

Not sure about your level of experience or area of expertise? Please err on the side of applying — what is important to us is how your work experiences have shaped you as a professional.

Please apply with a resume and cover letter. We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis. 

 


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Compensation: $150k - $175k

Location: Remote

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