Associate Director, Product Strategy

Associate Director, Strategy Razorfish Join Razorfish as an Associate Director, Strategy. Razorfish is a leading marketing and digital agency that values diverse backgrounds and inclusion. We provide a collaborative, data?driven environment focused on creating superior business outcomes for our clients. Overview As an Associate Director, Product Strategy you will define and deliver our clients product roadmaps, lead cross?functional product teams, and build differentiated customer experiences. Responsibilities Drive transformation from outputs to outcomes, shifting towards a product mindset. Develop deep understanding of client goals, competitive positioning, and market differentiation. Partner with stakeholders to identify new product ideas based on trend analysis. Own product lifecycle: problem framing, opportunity shaping, backlog management, development stages, and rollout planning. Implement learnings to optimize product and operations with data?driven decisions. Analyze customer feedback and data to identify issues and opportunities. Foster product thinking and rigor through test?and?learn practices. Develop and test hypotheses with Customer Research teams and data tools. Establish prioritization model rooted in market differentiation and strategic themes to prioritize features, user stories, and enablers. Define clear feature requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria. Prioritize program and team backlog based on customer and business value. Collaborate with engineering, design, data science, and other functions through design, development, and testing. Monitor and report product performance against KPIs/OKRs. Build alignment across product teams, partners, and executive leadership to ensure vision and business needs stay aligned. Qualifications 79 years of strategy or product experience. Strong presentation and communication skills. Experience leading cross?functional, matrixed teams (Engineering, Marketing, Finance, UX, Analytics). Proficiency with data and analytics tools; strong intuition for data?driven decision making. Entrepreneurial drive with a record of achieving stretch goals. Track record managing product roadmaps, writing requirements, collaborating with UX, and operating in cross?cultural, geographically distributed teams. Practical experience with lean?Agile frameworks (SAFe), Design Thinking, journey mapping, and service design. Preferred Qualifications Experience shipping products to market. Strong analytics skills and experience with visualization tools. Business and digital strategy experience. Ability to identify organizational and process changes needed to realize solution benefits. Additional Information Benefits We offer best?in?class wellness and benefits, including: Paid family care ?12 weeks for parents and caregivers. Monetary assistance for adoption, surrogacy, fertility, and pet adoption. Employee assistance programs and health/wellness reimbursements. Tuition assistance. Paid time off: flexible vacation, sick days, volunteer days, holidays, and identity days. Matching gifts programs. Flexible working arrangements. Work Your World program employees can work from anywhere; Publicis Groupe provides up to 6 weeks per year onsite. Business Resource Groups supporting multiple affinities. The benefits are available to eligible U.S. based employees and are governed by applicable plan documents. Compensation Salary range: $105,165 $165,485 annually (as of posting). Compensation depends on skills, qualifications, and role requirements. Equal Opportunity Razorfish is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We make employment decisions without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, and other protected characteristics. All information is kept confidential per EEO guidelines. Seniority Level Not applicable Employment Type Full?time Job Functions Business Development and Sales Advertising Services Location Chicago, IL #J-18808-Ljbffr