Senior Product Consultant

Summary

Join Apply Digital as a Senior Product Consultant and lead the charge in shaping digital product development for our clients. You will be responsible for building and championing product strategies, analyzing customer feedback, creating product roadmaps, and ensuring high ROI. This role requires strong communication, stakeholder management, and technical skills. You will work with multidisciplinary teams, translating business requirements into technical specifications. Apply Digital offers a hybrid/remote work environment, a generous vacation policy, customizable benefits, and ample learning opportunities. The ideal candidate will have at least 7 years of experience in a similar role and a proven track record of successfully delivering digital products.

Requirements

• You are capable of detecting the main projects, initiatives, and epics that must be executed to achieve the expected business results
• You are an effective communicator and facilitator, and are able to successfully manage expectations
• You’re good at techie speak and non-techie speak. You’ve collaborated in multidisciplinary teams, are able to convey technical concepts to non-technical people as well as turn business, UX, design requirements into technical specifications
• You are experienced with stakeholder relationship management and know how to read and engage a room
• You are experienced with backlog management, sprint planning, and roadmapping exercises, and you are able to generate spaces and workshops to define approaches and align solutions
• You have a understanding of Sports & Entertainment design, along with html and next.js processes
• You have an excellent grasp of creating and reviewing accessibility requirements, specifically WCAG 2.2 and high proficiency in using accessibility assessment tools and software
• You are a creative leader, a team player, and a problem solver
• You are professional, confident, and able to understand which ideas will and which won’t work
• You have proven yourself in a consultation role, through Agency, Consultancy, or other Professional Services Firm. You have strong proficiency in stakeholder management
• You have done it before, with a minimum of 7 years of experience in a Product Management or similar position

Responsibilities

• Build and champion product strategies and vision throughout client engagements, as well as brief and inspire internal team members to deliver on that vision
• Retrieve and analyze feedback from customers, stakeholders, other teams, and various research methods, workshop facilitation methodologies to shape requirements, features and end products
• Take ownership over creating product plans and roadmaps with the buy-in of executive stakeholders
• Prepare, review and present product requirements documents (PRD) - be meticulous in ensuring requirements of all types (client, business, user experience, design, technical, non-functional) are understood, documented, kept up-to-date, conflicts resolved, and finally communicated in a timely fashion to team members and client stakeholders
• Organize product releases and priorities properly, ensuring compliance with business value expectations
• Prepare recommendations to track product use and impact end users - define measurement plans for the digital products that we design and build. Build your skills using a repertoire of analytics tools
• Ensure requirements have been delivered to specifications, defects have been managed through to resolution, and assess readiness for launch
• Continuously prepare recommendations to expand product base and vision - based on data and research-driven insight
• Add value to the team - you are not just an order-taker. You understand what it means to drive ROI through business and customer value, you understand the constraints from all directions, and you use your consultative skills to make recommendations to move vision forward
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with the client along with third party vendors

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience using Contentful as a headless CMS for building and managing websites is a bonus
• It’s easy for you to break down complex problems into logical, digestible steps
• Ambiguity doesn’t scare you, and you thrive on turning ambiguity and conflicting information into clarity in a fast-changing environment
• You have a portfolio of digital products that you have shipped, managed and operated, and are proud to share how it delivered value to end users

Benefits

• Great projects: Broaden your skills on a range of engaging projects with international brands that have a global impact
• An inclusive and safe environment: We’re truly committed to building a culture where you are celebrated and everyone feels welcome and safe
• Learning opportunities: We offer generous training budgets, including partner tech certifications, custom learning plans, workshops, mentorship, and peer support
• Generous vacation policy: Work-life balance is key to our team’s success, so we offer flexible personal time offer (PTO); allowing ample time away from work to promote overall well-being
• Customizable benefits: Tailor your extended health and dental plan to your needs, priorities, and preferences
• Flexible work arrangements: We work in a variety of ways, from remote, to in-office, to a blend of both