Video Manager, German speaking - Design Studios

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What You'll Do

As a Video Manager in the Global Design Studios team, you will be a strategic problem solver and leader who understands people, design, business, and technology and can combine it all to propose solutions to projects' needs. You are a creative inspiring leader with an excellent video background who will lead, guide, mentor, and motivate Video Specialist team in a fast-paced and constantly evolving environment.

In doing so, you will build deep client relationships, making senior clients feel both comfortable and engaged throughout the entire process. You will work with a team of creative specialists from multiple dimensions, establishing the frameworks and vision that will guide the outcome for new experiences. You will be a video thought partner to the BCG Consulting Team, using a video strategy approach and offering solutions to meet the client's objectives.

You will engage with our consultant teams, leading and overseeing video projects end to end by implementing complex and ambiguous briefs with minimal direction, translating business language and processes into creative solutions. You will work on multiple projects simultaneously, preferring a mix of strategic and design work. You will quickly build rapport and trust with clients and provide direction and design critique to team members. You will collaborate with the Global Design Studios Video team and lead projects with an international team when needed.

You'll lead and develop creative briefs that capture the business challenge, set timelines, ensure that all goals are met, communicate with clients, conceptualize and ideate creative digital solutions, support all decisions with creative, strategic, and/or business reasoning, present creative concepts, and discuss ideas with internal clients.

Leading and coordinating multiple creative projects at a time, you'll drive their execution, ensuring that clients are satisfied with the quality of the final result. You will provide leadership and inculcate innovative thinking to the Video team and establish rich and engaging partnerships with the BCG Consulting Team. As Video Lead, you will guide Video Specialists in the team from Associate to Senior level, providing guidance, direction, upskilling, and support throughout their career development.

You're good at

• Working in partnership with other key team members to drive the execution of projects as the leader of the Video team.
• Leading, managing, and overseeing multiple video projects at a time, including building ad hoc teams, ensuring that all deadlines are met, providing guidance, ensuring that clients are satisfied with the quality of the result, and troubleshooting any issues that may arise during the project's duration, effectively communicating even under stressful circumstances.
• Providing and receiving regular feedback and ensuring effective communication and high satisfaction levels between the team and consultants.
• Leading, guiding, mentoring, and motivating a team of video professionals (associate to senior level), provide innovative thinking to the Video team, develop training concepts, and implement trainings.
• Leading and driving business pitches and presenting creative concepts and new and innovative ideas to internal and external clients.
• Making use of your technical proficiency in node- and layer-based compositing tools, as well as in video production and post-production workflows, tools, and methodologies.

What You'll Bring

• A bachelor's or similar degree in film or video production or animation (design school preferred).
• At least 6-8 years of relevant experience in a professional services environment, design start-up, or design agency.
• Excellent English and German language skills.

Who You'll Work With

A career in design at BCG involves bringing deep strategic, user experience, and visual expertise into product development, helping to deliver breakthrough products that engage and inspire. We have extensive knowledge of design thinking and human-centered design and are fluent in the latest technological innovations.

Additional info

We are Design Studios, an in-house creative agency comprised of groundbreaking professionals crafting premium designs. We are a global, multidisciplinary team of design strategists, creative leaders, and digital experts. We craft powerful design stories for BCG to deliver inspiring solutions to our clients' challenges. As part of BCG, Design Studios partners with consultants and clients to build our brand by elevating our work through the power of design. We offer support and orientation through a strategic and audience-centric approach, and apply design, technology, and media solutions to take BCG's achievements to the next level.

As design leaders, we are fresh, punchy, and playful, while committed to delivering business excellence. We recognize how to transform complex ideas into compelling visual experiences, and how to activate new commercial opportunities at the intersection of business and design. We value innovation, co creation, inspiration, and the business impact that design achieves. We believe in the art of the possible and in applying creative solutions to business challenges. We believe we can advance the world by conquering its complexity through a universal human language design.

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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