Principal Product Strategist

$140,000 - $140,000/Yr

Willowtree - Boston, OH

posted 26 days ago

Full-time - Principal
Boston, OH
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

As a Principal Product Strategist at WillowTree, you will play a pivotal role at the intersection of Business Strategy, Technology, and User Experience, guiding the creation and evolution of exceptional digital products and experiences. This position offers the autonomy to develop beautiful and useful digital products across various platforms, including native apps, responsive sites, bots, and voice assistants, for a diverse range of well-known brands. You will operate at both the individual product level and across a client's entire digital portfolio, ensuring that the products not only meet user needs but also align with business goals. In this role, you will be responsible for identifying competitive whitespace and facilitating client workshops to draw out business goals and strategic priorities. You will participate in user research, drive ideation sessions aimed at achieving business objectives, and articulate the business value of your recommendations. As a trusted advisor to senior clients, you will develop lasting relationships and ensure that the products you help create are viable, desirable, and feasible. Your work will involve collaborating closely with designers, researchers, and project managers to set the direction for products and portfolios, while also contributing to commercial activities such as client pitches and RFP responses. The Principal Product Strategist position requires a blend of strategic thinking, creativity, and strong communication skills. You will need to tell compelling stories through presentations that outline research findings, visions, and specific recommendations, all while balancing technical realities. This role is crucial in helping WillowTree maintain its reputation as a leader in digital product strategy and innovation.

Responsibilities

  • Tell compelling and inspiring stories through artfully crafted presentations outlining the research, vision, and specific recommendations balanced with technical reality
  • Identify and articulate business goals, market goals, and user goals
  • Create clarity out of ambiguous problem spaces; quick to focus the team's effort in the most valuable direction
  • Consult on user acquisition and marketing strategies for new products
  • Gather and analyze large amounts of information expeditiously while developing compelling, insightful recommendations and product vision
  • Communicate product decisions to senior-level stakeholders
  • Lead ideation exercises and drive creative problem solving
  • Work closely with designers, researchers, and project managers to set the direction for products and/or portfolios and platforms
  • Work with WillowTree leadership to identify whitespace in our strategy service offering
  • Contribute to commercial activity, such as providing strategic input into client pitch-work and RFP responses

Requirements

  • Experience working in an agency or consultancy with exposure to digital product/software strategy engagements
  • An understanding of user-centered research principles and how to apply those user insights
  • Have successfully launched products from previous roles
  • Led client engagements and are empathetic to client needs
  • Managed project workshops, check-ins, timelines, and presentations
  • Significant mobile and emerging technology industry knowledge
  • Can successfully tell stories with inspiring presentations; understands how to structure a narrative for maximum impact
  • Strong public speaker capable of ‘owning the room' from leading presentations to facilitating healthy group discussion

Nice-to-haves

  • Exposure to ‘beyond the product' management consulting
  • Ability to articulate and quantify the business impact of our ideas
  • Pricing and distribution
  • Marketing strategy and customer segmentation
  • Scenario planning
  • Innovation incubator design
  • Design thinking process consulting
  • Digital transformation roadmapping
  • Masters in Business Administration
  • Adept at building long-term relationships with client stakeholders
  • Expert Keynote skills

Benefits

  • Healthcare benefits - Medical, Vision, Dental (Including an option for 100% coverage of individual employee medical premiums)
  • Life & Disability Insurance
  • 401K matching
  • Flexible paid time off & paid company holidays
  • Parental Leave
  • Employee Share Purchase Plan
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • And more!
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