Product Strategy Director

Overview

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

• 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 actionable, feasible plans in partnership with others being indispensable.
• Travel up to 25% of the time.

• 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.
• Ability to provide examples of transforming ideas into actionable plans, with recognition for innovative thinking.
• Experience in market analysis, data-driven decision-making, and performance metrics; proficiency in tools for data analysis and modeling. Experience with sophisticated frameworks such as root cause analysis.
• 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.

• Appears to be covered by Responsibilities above; see the responsibilities section for daily activities.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.

Posted By: Kenny Edgerton