What you’ll do:
- Lead varied teams & manage multiple projects
- Shape a project & team from exploration to venture launch
- Encourage co-founders to think big, stimulate innovation and support systems thinking
- Comfortably design & facilitate workshops that spark disruptive potential
- Live & promote human-centered design mentality
- Drive strategic design vision for LAB1886
- Create strong value propositions within business design
- Understand team strengths to support individual growth & cohort mentorships
- Promote coaction between your team and UX/UI, venture architect, engineering & product management cohorts
- Envision & lead approach for organizational strategy within LAB1886 and our newly created ventures
- Communicate SD vision to co-founders & stakeholders
What you bring:
- Confidence applying & communicating a human-centered design thinking mindset—empathy, curiosity & critical thinking
- Strong ability to represent user-centered design
- Framework to elevate, inspire & mentor your team and cofounders
- 8+ years of strategic experience working in innovation fields
- Outstanding experience designing and facilitating innovation and design sprint workshops
- Bachelor’s and master’s degree in a related field, including but not limited to design, business, behavioral science or relevant work experience
- Fluency in business English—be comfortable communicating & presenting your work
- Flexibility to work in new fields—including international and emerging markets
- Strong sense of current social, economic & cultural changes
- Bachelor’s and Master’s degree (or PhD) in a related field, including but not limited to design, business, behavioral science—or relevant work experience
Bonus points if you’ve:
- Successfully launched and/or led a startup or innovation lab
- Rolled out digital transformation strategies and/or agile development methods at scale
What you’ll find:
- Shape organizational vision, work culture & role of SD within both LAB1886 and new ventures
- Fast growth based on your personal career goals—we support learning by doing
- Interdisciplinary team—varied backgrounds with motivated, highly engaged coworkers
- Budget for personal & professional development
- End-to-end product development in diverse fields—shape the future of mobility through co-creation, from idea to commercialization
- Opportunity to immediately take responsibility of high-impact projects
- Option to pitch directly to stakeholders—build presentation & leadership skills
- Possibility to pitch your own ideas & Think Big
- Opportunity to influence Daimler AG from the "inside"
- Mobility credit, state of the art technology & Corporate Benefits
- Weekly LAB1886 team lunch
- Complimentary German & business English courses
- Flat hierarchy—everyone has a say, and we mean that
- Best of both worlds—where the business security of Daimler meets the design freedom & entrepreneurial energy of a start-up
- Digitization of corporate structure—lead Daimler into the future
Send your application to: charlotte.mittelstaedt@daimler-x.com
