Sr Designer, Business Integration + Strategy, Inclusive Product Design

Accountabilities

• Champion inclusive and socially responsible design practices across the organization, serving as a trusted advisor on inclusion, cultural insights, emerging trends, and social risk.
• Lead inclusive design strategies across product design and packaging, with a focus on culture and race, gender and sex, aging, and cognitive and physical accessibility.
• Develop learning experiences, tools, frameworks, and resources that strengthen cultural competency, inclusive mindsets, and anti-racist design practices.
• Provide research, insights, and strategic guidance throughout discovery, concept development, and other phases of the design process.
• Use data and measurement approaches to track progress against inclusive design objectives, learning goals, and behavioral outcomes.
• Build strong partnerships across a broad network of stakeholders and develop strategies and programs that deliver meaningful organizational and community outcomes.
• Navigate complex, matrixed environments and influence leaders and teams at multiple levels.
• Provide advocacy, clarity, insights, design direction, and operational support that enable teams and partners to succeed.
• Coach team members and stakeholders to strengthen their confidence and capabilities in inclusive design.
• Develop and maintain relationships with external partners, including affinity groups, professional organizations, academic institutions, medical experts, and community organizations.
• Connect social and cultural insights with business priorities and help drive coordinated action across relevant functions.
• Represent the organization at industry events, conferences, and community engagements while staying current on emerging trends and inclusive design practices.
• Collaborate with teams across social responsibility, multicultural marketing, risk and reputation, human resources, and related functions to align inclusive design efforts with broader organizational strategies.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in product design, social design, community leadership, organizational change, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience developing inclusion programs and building organizational capabilities.
• Proven experience advancing design practices within complex, matrixed, or global organizations.
• Strong understanding of inclusive design, accessibility, cultural insights, and socially responsible design principles.
• Ability to balance immediate business priorities with long-term strategic objectives.
• Proven ability to manage stakeholders, build relationships, and influence decision-making across different levels and functions.
• Strong visual, verbal, and written communication skills, with the ability to tell compelling, data-informed stories.
• Strategic thinking and strong business judgment, combined with the ability to translate insights into actionable strategies.
• Ability to educate, coach, and influence teams while fostering collaboration, trust, and inclusion.
• Comfort challenging established approaches, embracing change, and advocating for accessibility and inclusion initiatives.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with diverse internal and external partners.
• Demonstrated ability to operate successfully in a highly collaborative, complex, and cross-functional environment.
• Ability to work four days per week in the office at the Downtown Minneapolis campus; this position is not eligible for remote work.
• If working remotely from another state when permitted, employees may be subject to geographic restrictions limiting remote work in certain states to no more than 30 days per calendar year.

Benefits

• Annual salary range of $95,000–$171,000.
• Compensation may vary based on factors including labor market, location, education, work experience, and certifications.
• Comprehensive health benefits for eligible employees and dependents.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Employee discount.
• Short-term and long-term disability benefits.
• Paid sick leave.
• Paid national holidays.
• Paid vacation.
• Opportunities to support personal, family, financial, educational, and overall well-being.
• Opportunities to contribute to community-focused initiatives.