Senior Product Strategist

Summary

Join Method, a global design and engineering consultancy, as a Senior Product Strategist and help drive innovative digital solutions for clients. You will act as a client consultant, product manager, and project coordinator, collaborating with cross-functional teams. Responsibilities include providing product lifecycle best practices, consulting with clients on strategic objectives, managing projects, and translating business needs into user stories. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of relevant experience in consulting, digital agencies, or product management, along with strong communication, business acumen, and technical aptitude. Method offers competitive perks, including continuing education, flexible PTO and work-from-home policies, 401K matching, and comprehensive health benefits.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant consulting, digital agency, or industry experience in user experience, digital strategy, or product management
• Understands and has knowledge in UX/UI best practices and product lifecycle
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams of designers and engineers
• Strong understanding of Agile principles, client relationship management, and software development methodologies
• Ability to quickly grasp complex business problems and explore solutions; synthesize data into insights and make recommendations; and build strategic and execution based roadmaps
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentation and workshop facilitation, as well as interpersonal skills
• Strong business acumen, technical aptitude, and executive voice
• Excellent planning and organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and negotiate
• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new projects

Responsibilities

• Provide best practices and industry standards regarding the product lifecycle and product development processes and methodologies
• Consult with clients to understand and convey strategic business objectives
• Manage work streams or projects from start to finish in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders
• Influence stakeholders and help guide conversations to desired outcomes
• Evaluate end-users’ needs through interviews and research
• Translate business and user needs into user flows, feature maps, user stories, etc
• Design, coordinate, and facilitate workshops including design thinking, empathy building, and ideation
• Partner with designers and developers to create testable concepts to validate hypotheses and solve for high-impact opportunities or optimize existing experiences
• Collaborate with developers to determine feasibility of requirements and prioritize recommendations to facilitate decision-making

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to leading an effective Agile team as well as working independently as needed
• Working knowledge of user experience journey maps and how to those journeys into compelling products
• Experience leading and facilitating user interviews and usability testing
• Knowledge and understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Experience creating and refining user stories for software development
• Understanding emerging business trends and how to outperform specific industry’s competition

Benefits

• Continuing education opportunities
• Flexible PTO and work-from-home policies
• 401K matching
• Health, Dental and Vision benefits, starting on day 1
• Company lunches, company outings, along with a lot of snacks
• Health and wellness programs