Savant Degrees is a Digital Innovation Studio that helps businesses unleash their exponential growth through digital transformation (from conceptualisation to building the digital solution/product). In today's world where every business is a digital business, Savant Degrees plays an important role in developing new solutions for increasingly complex business problems. Savant Degrees specializes in user experience, conceptualizing and building digital strategy and technology architecture, which are driven by their innovation methodology and their professionally & culturally diverse team. They have an Innovation Consultancy Team and a Software Engineering Team located in Singapore and Jakarta. For more information, visit www.savantdegrees.com.
Your day-to-day tasks will range from coming up with a design brief and statement to researching future trends, carrying out feasibility and viability studies, prototyping, to crafting the full innovation story and coming up with a design recommendation and implementation strategy.
To make sure you will enjoy this role, we are looking for a people’s person who connects with others, someone who likes to discover new inspirations others may not see. Someone who enjoys collaborative working style, and working closely with our teams from different disciplines.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Carrying out business and economic research, as well as feasibility and viability studies
- Synthesizing insights and communicating them in compelling ways (story telling!)
- Assist Innovation Consultants to identify innovation opportunities and develop value-adding innovation strategies and implementation recommendations
- Designing, planning and executing prototypes, to test and refine hypotheses
- Work closely with consulting team to ensure project timeliness as well as quality of output for creative work.
- Assisting in Design Thinking Workshops, including pre-workshop preparation, during workshop, and post-workshop reports.
Job Requirements
- Living in Singapore
- At least 1-year study/working experience in design thinking or related disciplines
- Excellent understanding of design principles and great in applying them
- Ability to rapidly conduct business analysis/research in unfamiliar industries and markets
- Ability to create outstanding PowerPoint presentations to communicate the research/analytical findings and ideas.
- Exceptionally strong communication skills, both in-person and written
- A collaborative working style, and the ability to work closely with our teams from other disciplines
- The ability to work in dynamic conditions, and transition quickly between collaborative and individual work
Benefits of Internship
As a Business Designer and Trend Researcher, you will be the go-to person for coming up with designs and business models/ideas that are in trend. Be prepared to work with a myriad of projects, from the web to app, front-end systems to back-end system design, and possibly even conceptualise new business ideas depending on project requirements. Depending on the projects allocated, you may have the opportunity to learn the following:
1. Prepare wireframes and rendering for websites and applications using various professional tools
2. Undertake research to find out best-in-class innovations and/or practices
3. Prepare project proposals for both innovation and development projects
4. Assist in pitching the recommended solutions to clients or even interview clients for their requirements
5. Prepare slide deck and reports for multiple sprints including a research sprint, persona and journey mapping sprint, persona validation sprint, ideation sprint, and many more.
6. Interact with external vendors or consultants who may have expertise in innovation, architecture, and technology.
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