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Sometimes the world’s biggest problems need unconventional solutions. That’s where you come in. Artistically talented, creatively minded, and collaboratively oriented, you take a designer’s approach to every challenge – with results as effective as they are beautiful.

Solving problems with user-centered design is at the heart of a holistic approach to serving our clients. Our experience, product and service designers cross-collaborate with teams of business strategists, digital experts and product development specialists to make organizations more effective, agile and innovative through purposeful design.

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Senior Designer

As a senior designer, you’ll be part of a blended cross-functional team, tackling all aspects of the design process. You’ll also be responsible for creating digital solutions across multiple platforms, bringing together user needs, business goals and technical realities.

Senior Experience Designer

As a senior experience designer, you will be charged with helping lead client engagements and guiding other members of the design team. You’ll work on a variety of projects that integrate digital designs into products, services and environments.

Design Director

As a design director, you will be part of a blended cross-functional team and tackle all aspects of the design process. You will help lead and inform the design process, pushing the envelope where design meets business to deliver compelling design solutions.

Senior Designer

As a senior designer, you’ll be part of a blended cross-functional team, tackling all aspects of the design process. You’ll also be responsible for creating digital solutions across multiple platforms, bringing together user needs, business goals and technical realities.

Senior Experience Designer

As a senior experience designer, you will be charged with helping lead client engagements and guiding other members of the design team. You’ll work on a variety of projects that integrate digital designs into products, services and environments.

Design Director

As a design director, you will be part of a blended cross-functional team and tackle all aspects of the design process. You will help lead and inform the design process, pushing the envelope where design meets business to deliver compelling design solutions.

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Using empathy to put end users at the center of the equation is the foundation of design thinking.”

Jennifer

Digital Partner, New York

Equal parts business strategist and creative visionary, Jennifer has served as a principal and executive creative director for digital design studios where she built teams, an impressive client base, and multiple products and services from the ground up. With a focus on integrating best business practices with compelling design, she holds patents for several products she designed.

Inspired by the next generation of design thinkers, she has been a guest lecturer in the graduate design, technology, and social-innovation programs of New York University, IIT, and The School for Visual Arts.

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