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Director of Product Strategy ID33849

Director of Product Strategy ID33849

AgileEngine • KwaZulu-Natal, ZA
30+ days ago
Job description

Overview

Join to apply for the Director of Product Strategy ID33849 role at AgileEngine. We are looking for a Director of Product Strategy in Buenos Aires. AgileEngine is an Inc. 5000 company that creates award-winning software for Fortune 500 brands and trailblazing startups across 17+ industries. We rank among the leaders in areas like application development and AI/ML, and our people-first culture has earned us multiple Best Place to Work awards. If you are looking for a place to grow, make an impact, and work with people who care, we\'d love to meet you!

Responsibilities

  • Client engagement & Pre-sales - Act as a trusted advisor in the pre-sales process, confidently engaging with potential clients to understand their vision, challenges, and goals.
  • Strategic product consulting - Provide strategic product consulting, helping clients refine their product direction and align their vision with actionable roadmaps.
  • Discovery sessions - Lead and facilitate discovery sessions, ensuring a structured approach to defining business problems and opportunities.
  • Decision-making & business value - Influence decision-making by articulating a clear product strategy and validating business value.
  • Proposal development & Consultancy - Work closely with internal teams to shape compelling proposals that align with the client’s business needs.
  • Strategic recommendations - Provide strategic recommendations on product direction, market positioning, and user experience.
  • Design efforts estimation - Define and estimate design efforts, contributing to proposal timelines and approaches.
  • User-centered design advocacy - Advocate for user-centered design, ensuring that proposals include practical, impactful design solutions.
  • Design leadership & execution - Facilitate prototyping efforts, especially in the early stages of engagement, driving napkin/high-level prototypes/concepts when needed.
  • Cross-functional alignment - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align design with business strategy and technical feasibility.
  • User experience guidance - Guide design decisions that enhance user experience while considering business and technological constraints.
  • Center of Excellence - Build the Center of Excellence (CoE) for Product Management.
  • Best practices - Establish best practices for product management and strategic design within the company.
  • Team growth - Grow the team of product owners, upskill the team on product thinking, user research methodologies, and market validation techniques.
  • Frameworks & guidelines - Develop frameworks and guidelines that help teams deliver high-quality product strategies across projects.
  • Product-driven culture - Advocate for a product-driven culture, ensuring teams maintain a balance between business needs, user needs, and technical execution.

Agility & Adaptability

  • Agility & adaptability - Comfortably switch between different projects, industries, and challenges, adapting quickly to new client needs.
  • Fast-paced environments - Excel in fast-paced environments with shifting priorities and ambiguous situations.
  • Problem-solving & collaboration - Take initiative in problem-solving, stakeholder management, and cross-team collaboration.

Communication & Influence

  • Communication - Communicate complex ideas clearly and persuasively, ensuring alignment across stakeholders.
  • Relationships & bridging - Foster strong relationships with clients, internal teams, and leadership, acting as a bridge between business and design.
  • Presentation & defense - Confidently present, justify, and defend design and product decisions to both internal and external audiences.

Must Haves

  • Executive/Managerial experience - Conduct meetings with executive stakeholders (C-level, VPs, Directors, etc), creating and driving presentations that showcase strategic thinking with a clear business impact.
  • Experience - 3+ years in Executive roles such as Director/Head/VP of Product Strategy, and/or 5+ years of Manager roles in Product Management and UX Design, or Product Strategy and UX Design roles.
  • Expertise in Product Strategy - Ability to define, refine, and validate product concepts with clients.
  • Strong UX Background - Hands-on experience in wireframing, prototyping, and user research.
  • Consultative Mindset - Experience working with clients, facilitating workshops, and shaping product visions.
  • Business Acumen - Understanding of market trends, competitive analysis, and product-market fit.
  • Excellent Communication - Comfortable leading client discussions, presenting ideas, and influencing stakeholders.
  • English - Upper-Intermediate level.

The Benefits of Joining Us

  • Professional growth - Accelerate your professional journey with mentorship, TechTalks, and personalized growth roadmaps.
  • Competitive compensation - We match your ever-growing skills, talent, and contributions with competitive USD-based compensation and budgets for education, fitness, and team activities.
  • A selection of exciting projects - Join projects with modern solutions development and top-tier clients that include Fortune 500 enterprises and leading product brands.
  • Flextime - Tailor your schedule for an optimal work-life balance, with options of working from home and going to the office – whatever makes you happiest and most productive.

To proceed, please check your email and complete your registration on our Applicant Site.

Seniority level

  • Mid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Full-time

Job function

  • Product Management

Industries

  • IT Services and IT Consulting

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Director of Product Strategy ID33849 • KwaZulu-Natal, ZA