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The role

We’re entering the next phase of growth for IF and looking for a Director to grow our senior team and further our mission of being a force of positive change across our industry.

The message we hear about how important and urgent IF’s work is for supporting organisations create trustworthy product and services is widening across new industries. Your role will be to help translate IF’s vision and expert capabilities into a compelling offering.

You will combine overseeing projects, working closely with projects leads and teams to deliver exceptional work, together with owning new business and growth efforts. You will also contribute to wider company initiatives, including hiring, team development, and marketing.

Expertise

You will be a practitioner and we’re flexible about what your practice expertise is (product, design, research, strategy, technology). You won’t be full-time hands-on on projects but you will provide deep thinking, practical support and leadership, working closely with project leads.
You will ideally bring expertise of building trustworthy products and services, however we’re openminded to what this looks like. What’s more important to us is your curiosity and ability to understand the way we approach these challenges, and ability to hold opinions.

Project delivery

Across projects (1-2 at a time), you will strategically guide and support teams through discovery, design, prototyping and build phases to design impactful products and services that answer pressing challenges in technology and society.
You will hold the vision and story for what the project solution could be, grounded in pragmatism and decisiveness, and steeped in IF’s deep expertise.
You will manage the inevitable trade-offs required to deliver outcomes that are commercially viable and strategically aligned.

Business development

You will originate and respond to incoming new business, building relationships across industries and widening the reach of the IF brand to make sure we continue to be the go to partner for the work that we do.
You will work with teams to extend work or start new streams, further developing strategic relationships across clients and opening up opportunities for IF to play a significant role across programmes of work.
You will contribute to IF’s thought leadership content: writing blogs, conceptualising frameworks based on our continued findings, and growing our set of tools used by practitioners globally.

The company

Through your work overseeing teams and industry defining outcomes, you will continue to define great work at IF, ensuring insights and learnings are shared across the company.
You will identify skills and capabilities for our network and permanent hires, ensuring we’re building brilliant teams and maintaining our high bar for talent.
You will coach and give regular feedback to teams, driving performance through our people and supporting their progression while at IF.