Product Strategy Director

Product Strategy Director

Atlanta, Georgia

Hybrid

Contract

$105.25/hr - $105.25/hr

Come join our team. Our client is looking for a Product Strategy Director for an 11-month contract and will be working in Atlanta, GA 30328.

Our client is a global, values-driven corporation that leads the communications, automotive, and media industries. Apply today to be on a team that disrupts industries and builds a better future for the next generation.

Contract Duration: 11 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 10 years’ experience in a related field. Could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 8 years’ experience; a Ph.D. and 5 years’ experience in a related field; or 14 years’ experience in a related field.

• Experience in automotive, strategy consulting, or technology consulting.

• Strong Strategic Formation background
  - Must have experience developing long-term strategies or initiatives.

• Must be able to provide examples of transforming ideas into actionable plans, and recognition for innovative thinking.

• Experience in market analysis, data-driven decision-making, and performance metrics; proficiency in tools for data analysis and modeling. Must have experience working with more sophisticated frameworks such as Root cause analysis, Etc.

• Able to adapt the strategy based on real-time feedback and changing conditions.

• Able to identify adequate resources—financial, human, and technological—that will support execution.

• Develop a comprehensive product strategy that outlines capability, target customers, and positioning.

• Facilitate workshops with cross-functional teams (R&D, marketing, and other business leaders) to co-create a product roadmap aligned with business objectives.

• Proficiency in data analysis tools and methodologies to support strategic decision-making.

• Proven ability to lead using influence within highly complex, matrixed teams.

• Proven ability to deliver high-impact presentations to C-suite executives, clearly articulating the product vision, strategic alignment with corporate goals, and expected ROI, along with using data visualizations to convey complex information.

• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Advanced degrees (e.g., MBA) or relevant certifications.

• Top Tier strategy consulting background.

• People leader experience preferred, as this candidate would be leading cross-functional teams.

• Corporate strategy experience.

What You Will Be Doing Daily Responsibilities

• Collaborating with executive leaders, cross-functional partners, and business stakeholders to craft and refine product strategies that drive company and client growth.

• Engaging with business leaders to analyze and uphold core revenue streams through alignment with foundational business strategies.

• Conducting market and opportunity analysis to identify new growth avenues and assess potential for new product offerings and lines of business.

• Performs the full range of analysis required to ensure proposed opportunities align with strategy and have the potential of enhancing long-term success from multiple perspectives, including technology, products, and services

• Contributes to and advises management on the identification, evaluation, and execution of potential acquisitions, partnerships, alliances, joint ventures, and/or internal start-up opportunities

• Directing the various work streams to understand how initiatives may impact and benefit the business.

• Aligning strategies across Cox Auto and ensuring they contribute to shared end-state and market-oriented outcomes.

• Coaching product leaders (AVPs, Directors, and Sr Managers), helping them lift out of the tactical to ensure their product lines have/are aligned to a strategic north star that is durable.

• Developing and sustaining deep subject matter expertise in the evolving landscape of auto retailing, wholesaling, ownership, and fleet maintenance.

• Identifying opportunities to consolidate /coordinate capabilities that cross-solution sets/delivery streams and build consensus to shift how we deliver value as we advance.

• The role focuses on developing winning product strategies, with the ability to turn vision and concept into…