Strategy and Organisational Design Director

Location: London studio, UK; in-person-first working model with at least three days per week in the studio. Candidates must be based in the UK and have the unrestricted right to work in the UK.

Salary: £90,000–£100,000 GBP per year, depending on experience.

Company

hirify.global is a global design consultancy that partners with organisations across healthcare, financial services, mobility, retail, and other sectors to solve complex challenges through design.

What you will do

• Lead complex strategy and organisational design engagements from framing through activation.
• Analyse organisational structures, incentives, behaviours, and cultures to identify levers for lasting change.
• Build trusted relationships with senior clients, shape opportunities, scope proposals, and grow accounts.
• Direct multidisciplinary teams across strategy, research, and design while mentoring designers and project leads.
• Facilitate executive conversations, surface trade-offs, align leadership, and prototype organisational futures through experimentation.
• Build hirify.global London's strategy and organisational design practice, develop methods and points of view, and represent the studio through writing and speaking.

Requirements

• Strong track record leading innovation, strategy, and organisational design engagements in consulting, in-house environments, or both.
• Systems-thinking ability and experience designing structures, capabilities, rhythms, and behaviours that make transformation stick.
• Strong facilitation and narrative skills, including the ability to work effectively with senior executives and build alignment through disagreement.
• Experience directing multidisciplinary teams, developing junior talent, and maintaining creative rigour under pressure.
• Experience shaping briefs, writing proposals, developing client relationships, and growing accounts over time.
• Must be based in the UK, have unrestricted UK work authorisation, and not require visa sponsorship.

Nice to have

• Experience leading transformation in health organisations.
• Experience with human-centred AI adoption, organisational restructuring, capability building, or workforce change.
• Experience building an innovation practice or capability.
• Knowledge of strategic choice-making frameworks such as Playing to Win.
• Experience in European markets or regulatory environments, or fluency in a second language.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on organisational transformation, future growth strategies, and innovation capabilities for ambitious organisations.
• Opportunities to deepen organisational design expertise, develop senior client relationships, and build an external profile through speaking and writing.
• Collaborative, multidisciplinary community with attention to creativity, connection, reflection, and work-life balance.
• Projects use design to address meaningful challenges from inception through implementation.
• Flexible working is supported within the in-person-first studio model.

Hiring process

• Submit a CV, cover letter, and two or three work examples demonstrating strategic, organisational, or transformation leadership.
• For each work example, describe the challenge, role, approach, and impact.