Senior Product Strategist

Summary

Join Very Good Ventures, a leading Flutter consultancy, as a Senior Product Strategist to play a pivotal role in expanding our services beyond Flutter into a full-scale digital consultancy. Initially, you will deliver strategy engagements for clients, guiding them through problem and solution evaluation. You will collaborate with researchers, designers, and engineers. As the team grows, you will lead a world-class strategy team, collaborating with business development to market our services and drive growth. This role requires strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills, along with experience in digital product strategy and team leadership. You will be responsible for developing product roadmaps, building client relationships, and representing the agency in industry events.

Requirements

• 4 to 6+ years of experience in digital product strategy, including hands-on project delivery and leadership
• Proven track record of delivering successful strategy engagements for clients, ideally in an agency or consultancy environment
• Experience leading teams through the entire product development lifecycle, from discovery to delivery
• Deep understanding of multi-platform solutions, particularly Flutter, and how they can be leveraged to achieve client goals
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly and persuasively
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen eye for identifying opportunities for product innovation and differentiation
• Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally with designers, researchers, engineers, and business stakeholders
• Passion for building and mentoring teams, with the ability to inspire and guide others to achieve their best work
• Strong storytelling skills, with the ability to persuade and inspire clients around future-state digital visions
• Familiarity with the technical constraints of software development and an ability to partner with engineers to assess feasibility

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CSO and Business Development team to craft go-to-market (GTM) messages for our new strategy consulting service
• Shape the evolution of our strategy offerings, refining processes and methodologies that focus on desired outcomes for prospects
• Team with researchers to uncover and prioritize unmet user needs
• Ensure that insights are deeply informed by user research and analytics to shape effective product strategies
• Create future-state visions for clients, prioritizing concepts based on three lenses: user desirability, business viability, and implementation complexity
• Collaborate closely with designers to ideate, prototype, and rapidly evaluate the potential value of concepts
• Ensure alignment between strategic goals and creative output
• Translate solutions into clear business value, partnering with client stakeholders to define return on investment (ROI) when applicable
• Help clients understand how strategy aligns with broader business objectives
• Work closely with engineers and solution architects to assess the feasibility of potential solutions
• Ensure that proposed solutions can be realistically built and delivered within the client’s technical constraints and timelines
• Develop comprehensive product roadmaps that define Minimum Viable Products (MVP) and phased releases, setting clear priorities and timelines
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, understanding their business needs, identifying new opportunities, and ensuring satisfaction throughout the engagement lifecycle
• Lead client ideation exercises and driving creative problem solving
• Create compelling strategies for key accounts as an account expansion exercise
• Partner with delivery teams to understand the current client ecosystem so that you can excite clients about what they could build next
• Craft and communicate compelling future-state digital visions for clients, using storytelling to create excitement and align stakeholders on the vision for their digital transformation
• Strong public speaker capable of ‘owning the room’ from leading presentations to facilitating healthy group discussion
• Represent our agency in industry events, webinars, and publications, establishing our voice and authority in the digital product strategy space

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) or a related field
• Experience in consulting beyond product-focused solutions, with exposure to broader business management practices
• Proven ability to clearly articulate and measure the business impact of strategic ideas and recommendations
• Familiarity with marketing strategy and customer segmentation to align digital products with target audiences
• Expertise in scenario planning to help clients prepare for various business and market outcomes
• Experience designing and facilitating innovation incubators to drive forward-thinking solutions
• Proficiency in design thinking methodologies, with a strong consulting background in applying these processes to solve complex business challenges
• Experience in leading digital transformation initiatives and creating comprehensive roadmaps for organizations
• A talent for building and maintaining strong, long-term relationships with client stakeholders at all levels
• Advanced skills in presentation software such as Keynote or Google Slides, capable of crafting visually engaging and persuasive presentations