Strategic Designer (Foresight, Systems & Innovation)

about us formlove partners with ambitious SMEs and enterprises to redefine business and brand, product portfolio direction, unlock regenerative opportunity spaces, and position organizations to thrive amid complex global shifts. We co-create experience-led, regenerative growth at the intersection of technology, humanity, and culture. Our team brings 2 decades of expertise in advanced research & development, strategic foresight, design innovation, and venture building. We support partners in crafting systems for long-term value creation and resilience, strategy and execution grounded in cultural intelligence, system thinking, and creative leadership. Our clients include legacy pioneers, market-shapers such as Google, ING, BNP Paribas, Airbus, and Amazon - organizations seeking to envision future trajectories, uplift innovation models, and manage risk for taking calculated business bets and informed strategic directions. At formlove, we’re not just building for change - we’re building for legacy, culture, and regenerative continuity.

about the role As a Strategic Designer , you will be crucial in co-leading transformation initiatives that link vision to execution - working across research, system design, and experience innovation. You will help prototype the future vision: distilling foresight, shaping narratives, designing concepts, and aligning business, product, and brand ecosystems around shared experiential value. You’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, internal and external stakeholders, and innovation leaders to craft strategic clarity and long-term regenerative advantage. This is a full-time hybrid position based in London, with flexibility for partial remote work, occasional cross-functional working sessions in Milan.

your focus research, synthesize and translate complex quantitative and qualitative data sets into regional insights and future forces develop actionable roadmaps grounded in human and cultural values, not just technological feasibility co-lead foresight-driven design sprints, ideation, co-creation sessions, and conceptual prototyping design scalable systems across product–service–brand–experience platforms track record influencing product development from initial idea to tangible prototype or market implementation influence experience strategy, venture models, innovation architecture lead with cultural intelligence, curiosity, emotional depth, and critical foresight visual ideation & concepting skills to create compelling visual narratives experience in fast-paced living labs or R&D environments where experimentation and rapid iteration thrive experience in fintech, retail, media, mobility, or aviation industries is much welcomed take part in mentoring or guiding junior roles/interns helping them build fluency in innovation processes and strategic tooling.

who we’re looking for 4-6+ years of interdisciplinary experience across design research, industrial design, innovation management, strategic foresight, entrepreneurship, social studies, anthropology, business, finance strong grasp of experience strategy , brand, and service innovation; ideally across startup and corporate contexts deep know-how and show-how of strategic foresight, systems design, and transition design capacity to thrive in ambiguity , synthesize insights, and articulate systemic vision with clarity experience building innovation capabilities, running design-led transformation processes knowledge of sustainability, regenerative systems, and circular business models exceptional creative storytelling and communication skills comfort working across functions (i.e. research, strategy, brand, product, design, business, operations).

we would love you to have: Dual or hybrid background across design, anthropology, economics & political science, business, innovation management, or related fields bonus: Experience with corporate venture building, prototyping business solutions, or strategic narrative design.

formlove is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay. We actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds - including sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, and religion - to apply for roles on our team Just imagine building true world impact - by shaping how organizations innovate toward cultural relevance, responsibility, and regenerative growth.