About Ogilvy
Ogilvy has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy 75 years ago. It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity – innovating at the intersections of its advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities with experts collaborating seamlessly across over 120 offices in nearly 90 countries. Ogilvy currently ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC, signifying its ability to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities. Ogilvy is a WPP company (NYSE: WPP). For more information, visit Ogilvy.com, and follow us on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook.
The purpose of this role is to develop CX strategy and experience design plans for client digital marketing, product and service-based engagements. The role requires the ability to understanding client business objectives and pivot these into appropriate customer experience solutions. This will be enabled by a high degree of collaboration within the VOJ team to develop partnerships with client service, strategy, and other teams.
Key Accountabilities
Customer Experience strategy
Analyzing current state vs. business opportunity, creating gap analyses, developing recommendations and roadmap/backlog, and guiding solution architecture.
Journey analysis and mapping
Working to develop journey-thinking as a core skill for VOJ – applied to BX and CX projects alike – and designed to ensure we leverage data to best understand consumer experiences and content/service interaction to ensure journeys are optimized.
Innovation
Engaging with clients within the context of their business challenges to identify opportunities to enhance their digital experiences through innovation. Focusing on technology, applications, or enterprise solutions and applying design thinking to drive client business growth.
Core Duties
Core Experience Strategy
Has the ability to analyze the market, understand users’ pain point, and do the competitor analysis. Independently work out the digital experience strategy according to the customers demand, refine and analyze the needs from users, from clients, and from the products, can integrate the needs within the total ecosystem, make judgment on industry trends, plan and drive the industry-leading strategy.
User Scenario/Journey Design
Create more user scenarios based on the experience strategy and maximize the task and output of the digital experience strategy.
User research
Familiar with the methodology, can guide team members to develop research proposal and questionnaires, participate in the research process, independently complete the research report which includes but is not limited to customer needs research and findings, user needs research and study, usability testing and user experience assessment etc.
Data-Driven User Experience Optimization
Understand monitoring data, make suggestions based on data analysis.
Qualifications
- More than 5 years of experience in Experience Strategy or related area
- Deep understanding of human-centered design approach and able to present, facilitate ideation and workshops leveraging multiple frameworks e.g., customer journey mapping
- Master of user research and testing, have experiences in planning, facilitating both qualitative and quantitative user testing, possess strong ability to create action plan development based on insights generated from research/testing activities
- Good communication and presentation skills
- Ability to build trusting client relationships
- Experience and Knowledge in Mural/Miro/Figma or any equivalent tool
- Japanese business level or above, English conversational or above
Who you are
- Passionate about creating meaningful, purposeful experiences
- Great as an emergent leader, and an accountable team player
- Have collaborative, and have a learning mindset
- Bring playfulness and a sense of humor to work
- Believe the value in inclusion & diversity
About Us
VML & Ogilvy Japan GK was established in April 2019 as a partnership between Geometry Global and The Ogilvy Group to enhance our offering to brands in Japan in support of their business ambitions and marketing objectives. We believe in the power of creativity to drive meaningful change that delivers positive business outcomes. Now more than ever the ability for an agency to flex and adapt to clients changing needs is vital in the application of communications, brand experience, commerce and technology. Our blend of global and local expertise and marketing capability is designed to meet the challenges of today while setting our clients up for success from tomorrow and beyond. VML & Ogilvy Japan GK is a WPP company (NASDAQ: WWPGY).
VML & Ogilvy Japan GK embraces and celebrates diversity, inclusivity, and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are a worldwide creative agency that represents global clients. The more inclusive we are, the more brilliant work we can create together.
At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression.
We believe in building powerful teams with purpose. This means hiring and nurturing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientation, and gender identities – and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality.
Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve. This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre-employment testing, or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please do not hesitate to let your recruiter know.
What We Do
Ogilvy has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy 75 years ago. We build on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity – innovating at the intersections of its advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities with experts collaborating seamlessly across over 120 offices in nearly 90 countries. We are proud to currently rank as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC, signifying our ability to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities.
