Product Strategist

1 week ago

United Kingdom SoftServe Full time

WE ARE

With over 30 years of experience in digital software development and consulting, SoftServe is a global company in solving complex business problems, creating industry-disrupting technology, and accelerating growth and innovation while optimizing operational efficiency. From leading ISV to Fortune 1000 digital enterprises, SoftServe transforms the way thousands of clients do business by enlocking the value of advanced technolgies, such as Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), DevOps, digital commerce, security, and experience design.

As an experienced Product Strategist, you will join our global product management team to lead client engagements and work closely with C-level business stakeholders across a diverse portfolio of enterprise and digital-native clients. Your primary responsibility will be to help clients achieve product-centric organizational transformations and define and implement winning product strategies, enabling them to successfully align their business strategy with the latest product management practices and technology capabilities. You will be dedicated to helping clients build more effective product organizations, and design, build, and evolve successful digital products and services that improve people’s lives and deliver substantial business results.


IF YOU ARE

· At least 7 years of experience in product strategy, product transformation, or digital consulting.

· Expertise in product operational models and product strategy consulting.

· Proficiency in applying modern product and design frameworks, such as service design, design thinking, working backwards, design sprints, etc.

· Familiarity with and curiosity about technology and its potential to strengthen businesses’ competitive position in the market.

· Skilled presenter and storyteller, leveraging data insights and market understanding to advocate for recommendations.

· Experienced strategist with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

· Effective communicator capable of presenting findings, leading workshops, conducting interviews, and pitching the value of recommended business concepts to clients.

· Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time to client locations, both domestic and international, for joint engagements, discoveries, and collaborative workshops.


PREFERRED COMPETENCIES & EXPERIENCE:

· Product consulting: Extensive experience in advising on and driving product-centric organizational transformation, as well as defining and implementing product and service strategies.

· Strong business acumen: Proven ability to engage with senior leadership and influence decision-making processes through strategic insights and compelling business cases.

· Embrace new challenges: Demonstrated capability to work efficiently and adapt quickly in challenging situations.

· Comfortable with uncertainty: Ability to structure work independently, prepare coherent plans, and orchestrate teams effectively when boundaries and stakeholders are unclear.

· Presentation skills: Exceptional ability to structure and deliver compelling client-facing presentations, whether for pitches or project deliverables.

· Problem-solving: Exceptional adaptability to evolving business landscapes and emerging technologies, with a strategic approach to problem-solving.

· Stakeholder management: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the capacity to effectively articulate complex ideas to diverse audiences, including technical teams and executive boards.


AND YOU WANT TO

· Client Engagement and Advisory: Lead C-level strategic discussions, negotiate program scope, priorities, as well as facilitate large in-person or remote workshops

· Leadership & Orchestration: Lead cross-disciplinary teams through the pre-sale, discovery, and definition phases to create winning product and service strategies. Facilitate and ensure engagement across client’s organization to ensure alignment and timely decision-making. Advocate for and facilitate the adoption of organizational change essential for delivering a continuously evolving innovative set of digital offerings.

· Product Strategy and Design Ownership: run research, facilitate ideation sessions in line with market best product and design practices,

own digital product or service strategy definition and oversee successful execution.

· Product Organization Transformation: Lead clients through their product organization transformation journey by aligning company business ambitions with organizational design, processes, roles and tools to enable a more customer-centric, outcome-focus and data-driven culture of innovation and digital offering management.

· Outcome-Focused and Data-Driven Approach: Develop compelling business cases to support recommendations based on comprehensive market and data analysis. Drive the design and adoption of an outcome-based ways of working by helping clients define and measure key performance indicators (KPIs), objectives and key results (OKRs), and other critical metrics.

· Client Relationship Management: Build and maintain strong client relationships to foster trust and long-term partnership, and identify growth opportunities for clients and the business.

· Change Adoption: Act as a trusted change ambassador, advocating for new ways of working, and provide product leadership coaching and product management upskilling.

· Contribute to Product Advisory Competency: Contribute to creation of new professional service offerings within Digital Advisory and Product management practices. Create templates and tools that allow repeatability and consistency as the team grows.


TOGETHER WE WILL

  • Win big and challenging deals, sign new logos, and work with world-leading companies
  • Be a trusted advisor and the catalyst for the transformation and innovation agenda for world-leading companies
  • Assimilate best practices from experts, working in a team of top-notch experts, learn from leaders from different organizations
  • Coordinate and run presentations of work on international events: conferences, meetups, and specialized events
  • Use our access to expert communities, paid certifications, and professional events


All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, or protected veteran status. SoftServe is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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