Senior Product Strategist

Description

Hybrid - 1 to 2 days a week in Syracuse Office

Senior Product Strategist for our Digital Solutions team in New York  (Syracuse/Brooklyn/Albany/Hicksville,Long Island NY).

Job Purpose

• The Senior Product Strategist is responsible for supporting the business and operations work stream within a multi-disciplinary digital product team structure.
• They partnerclosely to execute several activities, such as identifying risky assumptions, building the value case, defining the future-state process vision, executing change management plans, etc.

Key Accountabilities

• Support business capability assessment, design, alignment and roadmapping for product line with cross-functional teams
• Construct business case, including value projections and detailed investment estimate; ensure these are aligned with product definition
• Track objectives and key results to assess benefit realization of products
• Proactively identify riskiest assumptions and support product team in designing and executing experiments to increase confidence in business case assumptions
• Support business/operation work stream team, participating in Agile sprints during fullproduct roadmap
• Define future-state operations solution (process, org change), including detailed current state-process and future-state process documentation
• Support change mgmt. and product roll-out plan, with help from the change mgmt.team as needed
• Implement marketing, sales, business development, user acquisition, and user support strategies
• Provide support to product & technical workstreams (e.g., RFP support, stakeholder mgmt., value alignment, IT governance, IT PMO)
• Support preparation of materials for key stakeholder readouts (e.g., Digital Boardmeetings) and regulatory engagements.
• Supervisory/Interpersonal- Experience Required

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, engineering or relevant field
• 3-5 years relevant business experience
• Experience working on digital product teams highly preferred
• Experience designing and refining value case (e.g., financial value to the business,strategic value, etc.)
• Experience in defining, testing, and refining product assumptions
• Experience in Agile product or project management
• At least 1-2 years working with (or within) utility
• Financial modeling and value case development experience