Design Thinking Strategist
Company: S3
Location: Charlotte
Posted on: April 6, 2026
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Job Description:
Job Description STRATEGIC STAFFING SOLUTIONS (S3) HAS AN
OPENING! Design Thinking Strategist Location: Charlotte, NC (Local
– Hybrid/Onsite) Duration: 12 Months Role Type: W2 Contract
Engagement Description: In this role, you will serve as a
human-centered design leader, helping product, project, and
portfolio teams discover new opportunities and to deliver products
that people love and that drive business value across the entire
product cycle. Our ideal candidate has a deep empathy for users
while also understanding business and technology to advocate for
the best solutions that consider the business context.
Responsibilities include: Act as primary design consultant and
creative strategy leader on your team(s), serving as central
point-of-contact for project team(s), product partners, and
decision-makers, including sponsors and stakeholders from the
business. Deliver relevant artifacts like journey maps, research
synthesis, and other items to communicate user needs and potential
opportunity to larger product team and various stakeholders. As
necessary, create and facilitate workshops to establish business
and product goals, frame problems, prioritize needs, and brainstorm
solutions, among other outcomes. Connect regularly with product
managers and product owners to to support new feature development
and product strategy. Leverage human-centered design processes at
the portfolio level to find value across various related project
and product teams. Work closely with change management teammates to
highlight user pain points and potential areas of resistance in
order to understand business risks and foster better product
adoption. Ensure UX designers understand the problem space, current
state, and needs, and consult with them in creating and testing
potential solutions. Lead research efforts to better understand
people and their environments. Analyze and synthesize research into
actionable insights and recommendations. Leverage user stories,
storyboards, personas and journey maps and other artifacts to make
your ideas clearly understood. Required Skills Collaborative maker
with experience creating psychologically safe environments where
people can innovate. You coach to product mindset, lean into
healthy conflict, articulate problems and solutions clearly,
striving for alignment. Embraces the unknown with a bias towards
action in ambiguous environments. Work closely and iteratively with
both users/customers and internal, interdisciplinary teams
including Product Designers, Product Owners, Agilist and
Technologists. Leverage needs of users in ways that produce
measurable value and understand ways technology and scope can
impact the final results. Able to balance practical realities of
product work with the crucial nature of 'The Art of the Possible.'
* Beware of scams. S3 never asks for money during its onboarding
process
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