normative
Foresight Strategist (Contractor)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 5 hours ago
FigmaAdobe Creative SuiteGraphic DesignAccessibilityCadenceResearchCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingTime Management
About the role
- You'll move fluidly between research and craft, making sense of ambiguity and communicating it beautifully.
- This is a collaborative, delivery-focused role.
Responsibilities
- Support strategic foresight research, including horizon scanning and the identification of signals, trends, and emerging shifts relevant to client challenges.
- Build and maintain evidence-rich trend and signal libraries, capturing examples with concrete artifacts, screenshots, and source references.
- Design and produce high-quality visual artifacts - trend cards, frameworks, scenario visuals, journey and summary graphics - that make complex thinking clear and compelling.
- Support lightweight qualitative research activities, such as interview preparation, note synthesis, and surfacing quotes and signals.
- Collaborate closely with senior strategists and cross-functional teammates through working sessions and reviews to shape and sharpen direction.
- Bring rigor, creativity, and a highly collaborative mindset to deliver polished, decision-ready outputs.
- Previous experience in graphic design, with strong, demonstrable visual craft and a portfolio of well-designed artifacts.
Requirements
- Strong communication, organization, attention to detail, and the ability to navigate complexity are essential.
- Proficiency in design and collaboration tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Miro, and similar, with a willingness and ability to learn new software as required.
- The ability to translate dense, ambiguous research into clear narratives and compelling visual communication.
- Experience gathering, organizing, and making sense of qualitative inputs from multiple sources.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present ideas with clarity and diplomacy.
- A Master's degree in Strategic Foresight and Innovation (or a closely related foresight/futures discipline).
- 1-2 years of experience applying strategic foresight methods in a professional, research, or consulting setting.
Skills
- Welcome to Normative
Compensation
- We invest in our team with fair, clearly defined compensation.
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