Responsibilities
- Act as the vertical's antenna by maintaining a live, first-hand reading of the landscape, including trends, weak signals, emerging behaviors, and technologies reshaping industries.
- Own the Future Opportunity Radar methodology, including opportunity radars, future scenarios, tech-to-value mapping, and concept provocation cards.
- Build editorial presence beyond decks by writing, speaking, and publishing with your own voice to elevate the Nacar brand.
- Lead the strategic quality of services within the vertical: Future Opportunity Radar, Insight Engines (research that unlocks real needs), and Product Strategy (defining what to build, under what service logic, and how it evolves).
- Provide strategic direction and elevate criteria in services where you are not the hands-on specialist, relying on strategists and researchers from the team to deliver.
- Lead the most ambiguous projects within the vertical, those requiring reframing and vision, not just method.
- Direct multidisciplinary squads activated by project, elevating the level of everyone working with you through leadership by gravity, not by hierarchy.
- Ensure blueprints, roadmaps, and research reports have real density and deliver actionable value.
- Manage timelines, resources, and expectations to keep the vertical profitable.
- Act as a trusted advisor to C-level clients, sitting with CXOs, Heads of Strategy, and Heads of Innovation, sustaining the conversation as an equal.
- Open doors that the rest of the team cannot.
- Turn foresight findings into new service proposals, identifying where clients need more help before they ask.
- Partner with the commercial team on pre-sales of strategic accounts, contributing brief reframing and methodological framing.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in strategic design or innovation consulting.
- Hybrid career path across the 3 disciplines of the vertical: foresight, user research, and product definition.
- Structural curiosity: you do not just read trends, you decode them.
- Authority without arrogance: you can hold your ground with a C-level client without needing to impose your view.
- Editorial mindset: you have your own voice and you use it.
- Operational discipline: you know that inspiration without delivery does not generate recurring business.
- Proven leadership in complex projects, activating, challenging, and elevating the work of more junior strategists and researchers.
- Leadership by gravity, not by hierarchy.
- Fluent in English (written and spoken).
Nice to Have
- Spanish is a plus.
Benefits
- Permanent contract.
- Competitive salary.
- Hybrid working model - you can either work from home or enjoy our beautiful studio (with free coffee and a great garden!).
- Join a dynamic +15 nationalities community and enjoy our team-building activities.
- Keep challenging yourself with our Nacar Academy training program, aligned with the creation of personalized career paths.
- 26 paid vacation days.
- Monthly allowance for internet costs and a budget for working-from-home materials.
- Health Insurance.
- Flexible working hours.
- Free tickets for the Palo Alto Market.
Compensation
Competitive salary
Work Arrangement
Hybrid — Barcelona
Team
Join a dynamic +15 nationalities community and enjoy our team-building activities.
Other
- Fluent in English (written and spoken); Spanish is a plus.
- Hybrid working model - you can either work from home or enjoy our beautiful studio (with free coffee and a great garden!).
- Flexible working hours.
