Overview
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're 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.
- Provide strategic product consulting, helping clients refine their product direction and align their vision with actionable roadmaps.
- Lead and facilitate discovery sessions, ensuring a structured approach to defining business problems and opportunities.
- 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.
- Provide strategic recommendations on product direction, market positioning, and user experience.
- Define and estimate design efforts, contributing to proposal timelines and approaches.
- 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/creating napkin/high-level prototypes/concepts when needed.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align design with business strategy and technical feasibility.
- Guide design decisions that enhance user experience while considering business and technological constraints.
- Building the Center of Excellence (CoE) for Product Management and establish best practices for product management and strategic design within the company.
- Grow the team of product owners and upskill the team on product thinking, user research methodologies, and market validation techniques.
- Develop frameworks and guidelines that help teams deliver high-quality product strategies across projects.
- Advocate for a product-driven culture, ensuring teams maintain a balance between business needs, user needs, and technical execution.
- Agility & Adaptability: Comfortably switch between different projects, industries, and challenges, adapting quickly to new client needs.
- Excel in fast-paced environments with shifting priorities and ambiguous situations.
- Take initiative in problem-solving, stakeholder management, and cross-team collaboration.
- Communication & Influence: Communicate complex ideas clearly and persuasively, ensuring alignment across stakeholders.
- Foster strong relationships with clients, internal teams, and leadership, acting as a bridge between business and design.
- 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 for remote or in-office work depending on what makes you happiest and most productive.
Note: This description omits extraneous boilerplate and focuses on responsibilities and requirements relevant to the Director of Product Strategy role.
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📌 Director of Product Strategy
🏢 Agileengine
📍 México