Director of Product Strategy ID33849

• What you will do

Client engagement & Pre-sales
• Act as a trusted advisor in the pre-sales process, confidently engaging with potential clients to understand their vision, challenges, and goals.
• Provide strategic product consulting, helping clients refine their product direction and align their vision with actionable roadmaps.
• Lead and facilitate discovery sessions, ensuring a structured approach to defining business problems and opportunities.
• Influence decision-making by articulating a clear product strategy and validating business value.
• Proposal development & Consultancy
• Work closely with internal teams to shape compelling proposals that align with the client’s business needs.
• Provide strategic recommendations on product direction, market positioning, and user experience.
• Define and estimate design efforts, contributing to proposal timelines and approaches.
• Advocate for user-centered design, ensuring that proposals include practical, impactful design solutions.
Design leadership & Execution
• Facilitate prototyping efforts, especially in the early stages of engagement, driving/creating napkin/high-level prototypes/concepts when needed.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align design with business strategy and technical feasibility.
• Guide design decisions that enhance user experience while considering business and technological constraints.
• Building the Center of Excellence (CoE) for Product Management
• Establish best practices for product management and strategic design within the company.
• Growing the team of product owners, upskill team on product thinking, user research methodologies, and market validation techniques.
• Develop frameworks and guidelines that help teams deliver high-quality product strategies across projects.
• Advocate for a product-driven culture, ensuring teams maintain a balance between business needs, user needs, and technical execution.
Agility & Adaptability
• Comfortably switch between different projects, industries, and challenges, adapting quickly to new client needs.
• Excel in fast-paced environments with shifting priorities and ambiguous situations.
• Take initiative in problem-solving, stakeholder management, and cross-team collaboration.
Communication & Influence
• Communicate complex ideas clearly and persuasively, ensuring alignment across stakeholders.
• Foster strong relationships with clients, internal teams, and leadership, acting as a bridge between business and design.
• Confidently present, justify, and defend design and product decisions to both internal and external audiences.

• Must haves

• Executive/Managerial experience: Conduct meeting with executive stakeholders (C-level, VPs, Directors, etc), creating and driving presentations that showcase strategic thinking with a clear business impact.
• Experience: 3+ years in Executive roles such as Director/Head/VP of Product Strategy, and/or 5+ years of Manager roles in Product Management and UX Design, or Product Strategy and UX Design roles.
• Expertise in Product Strategy: Ability to define, refine, and validate product concepts with clients.
• Strong UX Background: Hands-on experience in wireframing, prototyping, and user research.
• Consultative Mindset: Experience working with clients, facilitating workshops, and shaping product visions.
• Business Acumen: Understanding of market trends, competitive analysis, and product-market fit.
• Excellent Communication: Comfortable leading client discussions, presenting ideas, and influencing stakeholders.
• English: Upper-Intermediate level.

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