Important: after confirming your application on this platform, you’ll receive an email with the next step: completing your application on our internal site, LaunchPod. So keep an eye on your inbox and don’t miss this step — without it, the process can’t move forward. What you will do 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 - Establish best practices for product management and strategic design within the company. - Growing the team of product owners, upskill 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 meeting 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. About us 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! Perks and benefits - 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, by having the options of working from home and going to the office, whatever makes you the happiest and most productive. Job Type: Full-time