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About the Role

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is seeking an experienced Creative Manager to lead its Japan Design Studio. This role involves guiding creative quality and integrity across various design disciplines, fostering a collaborative environment, and supporting the thoughtful adoption of AI in creative workflows. The ideal candidate will blend global standards with local market understanding to drive impactful creative solutions.

Responsibilities

Take responsibility for creative quality and culture within the Japan studio, from early concept through to final delivery — across every discipline.
Guide your teams, review work thoughtfully, and help maintain a consistently high quality standard.
Support the studio's thoughtful adoption of AI — piloting relevant tools, helping the team understand where they can genuinely help, and where human judgment and craftsmanship must continue to lead.
Bring an informed understanding of the Japanese market to your work — its visual culture, language, and client expectations — while helping connect this local perspective with BCG's global brand standards.
Partner with the regional Strategy team on go-to-market initiatives, and build lasting relationships with local consulting leadership as a representative of Design Studios in Japan.
Support the growth of the people around you — mentoring senior creatives and team leads with patience and encouragement, and sharing what you learn with the broader global community of Design Studios leaders.
Lead multidisciplinary creative teams across brand, presentation, digital, video, editorial, and experience design.
Shape thoughtful creative direction from ambiguous or evolving business needs.
Pilot new AI tools responsibly, and helping the team build workflows that use them well.
Partner with Creative Directors and consulting teams to understand business context and translate it into creative solutions that serve the work.
Exchange perspective with Creative Managers across the global Design Studios network on shared projects and standards.
Mentor senior creatives and team leads with encouragement, helping them grow into confident leaders in their own right.
Build trusted relationships with internal clients and senior stakeholders — listening carefully, managing expectations, and safeguarding the integrity of the work.

Requirements

8–10+ years in a creative leadership role — agency, in-house brand studio, service design firm, or similar with a portfolio that proves range and craft
Hands-on experience using GenAI and creative automation tools in real creative workflows, with a genuine point of view on where the practice is heading
Real, lived familiarity with the Japan market — its business culture, client expectations, and design landscape
A track record of mentoring designers, nurturing team culture, and leading across multiple geographies or matrixed teams
Strong communication skills and the ability to present creative thinking clearly and respectfully to senior stakeholders
Fluency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and PowerPoint, along with working knowledge of AI-enabled creative and design-ops platforms
A balanced mindset that brings together creative sensitivity, business understanding, and operational care

Skills

Creative Craft & Vision
Thoughtful Use of AI in Creative Practice
Understanding of the Japan Market
Leadership, Collaboration & Client Partnership
Adobe Creative Suite
Figma
PowerPoint
AI-enabled creative and design-ops platforms

Location

Japan

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

8-10+ years

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in design, visual communication, brand/visual arts, or a related creative field (design school background preferred)

Benefits

Opportunity to contribute your perspective to firm-wide creative practice, and to learn from colleagues facing similar questions in other markets
A supportive network of experienced creative leaders navigating the same evolving landscape, including the responsible use of AI
A meaningful path for continued growth within Design Studios' global leadership community

About the Company

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities.
BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963.
Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.
To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities.
Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change.
BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose.
We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.
We are Design Studios — BCG's in-house creative agency, a global, multidisciplinary team of design strategists, creative leaders, and digital experts.
We create the design work that brings BCG's thinking to life, applying design, technology, and increasingly AI to support the firm's work for its clients.
We value craftsmanship, curiosity, and mutual respect, alongside a genuine commitment to quality and business impact.
In Japan, this means bringing together global creative standards with real sensitivity to local aesthetics, language, and client expectations.
We believe design is a shared language for navigating complexity, and that AI, used thoughtfully, can help us serve that purpose even better.

Equal Opportunity

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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