Co-Creation Studio Lead (Dublin)

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated 30 years in business and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

 We’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of  what we do:

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW

We’re a core values core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you.

Job Description

Version 1’s Co-Creation Studio in Dublin is a dedicated, AI-infused space where clients come to work through real problems, define what good looks like, and leave with something they can act on. In hours, not weeks. 

This is not a meeting room. Before clients arrive, the team has already researched their sector and framed the challenge. In the session, AI avatars contribute tailored input in real time, the conversation is captured and built on as it happens, and groups finish with wireframes and working prototypes. They do not sit through a presentation. They build something.

Sessions run half-day or full-day. The Studio Lead is accountable for coordinating the work from first client call to post-session artefacts and hand-off. This is a hands-on delivery role. You will be the main facilitator and day-to-day client contact for the Studio, reporting to the Co-Creation Director. 

What You’ll Do

Before sessions

• Hold client discovery calls to understand the challenge, the stakeholders, and what a successful session looks like. 
• Build a session knowledge base, including company context, desk research, stakeholder mapping, and problem framing.
• Design session materials, including facilitation guides, canvases, templates, and run-of-show. 

During sessions

• Facilitate co-creation and discovery sessions with client stakeholders, including Director and Head-of level.
• Apply Design Thinking methods to move groups from problem definition to prioritised opportunities. 
• Build demonstrators and prototypes live using Claude Code or similar tools, turning rough concepts into working artefacts during the session itself. 
• Adapt pace, energy, and method in real time as the session evolves. 

After sessions

• Synthesise outputs into clear client-facing artefacts, including opportunity maps, insight summaries, decision registers, and action plans.
• Ensure continuity across multi-session engagements and clear hand-offs to delivery teams.

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Experience in a facilitation, innovation, product, or service design role. 
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate workshops with senior stakeholders, not only support or observe.
• Applied experience of Design Thinking methods, including double diamond, empathy mapping, ideation, and rapid prototyping. 
• Ability to build demonstrators and prototypes live in a session using Claude Code or similar tools. This is important for success in the role because the Studio Lead needs to demonstrate ideas through working examples.
• Excellent written communication for client-facing pre- and post-session materials. 
• Dublin-based and able to act as the Studio’s day-to-day contact. 

Desirable criteria

• Experience in an innovation lab, corporate design studio, or AI/digital consultancy.
• Familiarity with AI transformation challenges and how organisations adopt AI at scale.
• Experience facilitating multi-session discovery programmes, not only standalone workshops. 

Background We’re Hiring From

Candidates will typically come from one or more of: 

• Innovation labs or corporate design studios. 
• Product management or UX/service design consultancy. 
• Technology consulting with clear facilitation and client-facing experience. 

This is a practical facilitation and live prototyping role, focused on helping client groups move from discussion to clear outputs. The role prioritises live prototyping over presentation-only outputs.

Additional Information

At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Version 1 Pension with a 5% employee-matched contribution, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. 
• 24 days holiday allowance plus Public Holidays, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat
• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & quarterly Star Awards.
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.

And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.

Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer

We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring including those shaped by disability and neurodiversity.

We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact Nai.Bruce@version1.com at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially.