Senior Director, Business Design, Runyon Design

About the job

We are looking for a Senior Director, Business Design to join our team. At Runyon, Business Designers drive the analysis of the viability of products and ventures, and articulate how optimal business models shape the experience, and vice versa. They consider a series of monetization opportunities, operational considerations as well as the growth implications to scale into market while maintaining a firm understanding of the underlying market dynamics of incumbent position, emergent players and value exchange across key stakeholders in the ecosystem.

This role requires someone who is highly strategic, detail-oriented, and experienced in financial modeling, performing competitive analyses, creating growth strategies and testing value hypotheses and growth hypotheses from low to increasing live fidelity. They have the ability to develop a deep understanding of a partner’s business and translate those into a plan of action. They develop strong relationships and build trust with core decision-makers, both internally and externally.

About Runyon

Runyon is a product design and venture studio that helps companies grow. We are a team of customer-centered designers, researchers, and strategists that crafts new products, experiences and ventures. Our approach combines customer needs and behaviors with leading edge business strategy. Our work is sprint- and prototype-driven and we think about how we can craft strategies and products into the market in ways that are meaningful and measured from the start. Our team has decades of experience working with some of the largest global partners including Disney, The New York Times, American Express, Target and others.

We're prototyping-led. We lead with tangible assumptions in the form of prototypes and test them with real stakeholders to validate and refine our strategy and design. Regardless of discipline, we think and communicate in concepts, and use those to move further, faster.

We're detailed and intentional. We always back up our design decisions with sound reasoning—be it user research, market research, or both. We make things that make sense and that have a clear through line.

We're fast. We work almost exclusively in sprints, and with lean teams. We need folks who like to run.

We're collaborative. We jam as a multidisciplinary team of specialists who collectively contribute to the full spectrum of work across user research, strategy and design to arrive at high quality outcomes.

How can we help?

How can we help?

Senior Director, Business Design

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