About ATÖLYE

ATÖLYE is a 21st-century creative organization with an award-winning Strategic Design Studio nested within a Creative Hub. ATÖLYE is also part of the kyu Collective. kyu is a collective of strategically curated creative businesses whose purpose is to be a source of creativity which propels economies and societies forward. Based in bomontiada, a historical beer factory, ATÖLYE fosters a fluid talent curation model that consists of its 150-person community.

ATÖLYE’s work encompasses all facets of creative consulting including strategy, design, architecture, and technology. It provides these services through a unique modern network of practitioners. Fueled by the diversity of its community, scarcity of its space, and the permeability of the whole system, ATÖLYE explores a new model for the creative services industry—one that may be called a “membrane organization”. With this system, ATÖLYE is able to offer a wide range of capabilities to its clients, all of which are centered around the core mission of addressing wicked problems and creating positive impact.

About the Job—Organizational Designer

Responsibilities

• To provide research, design and strategy support in the organizational and cultural transformation projects of ATÖLYE, with various institutions
• To design and manage the corporate innovation focused development and education programs of ATÖLYE
• To provide facilitation support in different design and strategy workshops of ATÖLYE with different institutions 
• Design content and flow for workshops and be responsible for the design and production of high-quality workshop materials (canvas, handbooks, work papers, etc.)
• Organizing participants for workshops and managing their logistics
• To provide field research, synthesis, prototyping and presentation support in the strategic design projects.
• To contribute to the development of ATÖLYE as a learning organization by supporting the learning journeys of colleagues

Desired Qualities and Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a subject related to design, entrepreneurship,  innovation or organizational change
• Minimum 2 years of working experience in design studios / consultancy companies / digital product startups /  innovation departments of institutions / acceleration programs / academy,
• Having experience in a few of the topics such as: corporate innovation, organizational transformation, future working patterns, learning design, strategic design and service design issues,
• Having experience in human-focused design, design-oriented thinking,  working with lean initiative methods,
• Experience and competencies in basic coaching and workshop facilitation,
• Having experience in designing and transferring learning content,
• Be able to think critically and create strong arguments,
• Be able to produce creative output and be able to tell the story of these outputs as written and verbal in a coherent manner,
• Having a strong presentation, self-expression and storytelling skills, a generalist point of view, systematic thinking, high skill to synthesize and analyze,
• Strong verbal and written communication and empathy skills.
• Proficient written and spoken English & Turkish
• Ability to use DSLR camera,

Preferably Desired Features

• Masters degree
• Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and InDesign
• UX design experience using Invision, Marvel, Sketch, basic prototyping knowledge
• Experience with Google Docs, Sheets, Slides
• Experience with Asana, Basecamp, Trello or similar tools
• A minimum of 1-year experience abroad

What do we offer?

• Inspiring and dynamic space, community and workspace,
• The opportunity to work in strategic projects with leading institutions in Turkey and beyond,
• Transdisciplinary workflow which requires constant learning,
• Private health insurance and meal card