Product Strategist-strategic thinking

KPG99 INC; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

KPG99 INC is seeking a Product Strategist with strong strategic thinking to lead discovery and define opportunities that deliver business value. You will guide research, frame problems, and orchestrate workshops across cross-functional teams to align insights with strategic goals.

The role emphasizes design research, product strategy, and service design, with a portfolio showing end-to-end product lifecycle from concept through deployment.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to connect work to measurable business outcomes.
• 3–5 years' experience in design research, product strategy and/or service design.
• Portfolio showing full product lifecycle from concept to deployment.
• Experience planning and facilitating cross-functional workshops with leadership.

Responsibilities

• Frame opportunities and guide problem definition.
• Lead research and test solutions to validate concepts.
• Structure and run collaborative workshops with stakeholders.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Discovery research

Workshop facilitation

Cross-functional collaboration

Business outcomes mapping

Ambiguity tolerance

Job description

Job Title: Product Strategist-strategic thinking

Duration: 12 months+

Target Start: 11/30

Role Overview

You will lead product and services teams in discovering solutions that people value and that drive business outcomes. You will frame opportunities, structure and run research, facilitate collaborative workshops, guide problem definition and concept exploration, create impactful solutions, and validate them through testing.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated strategic thinking, strong discovery and research capabilities, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to clearly connect work to measurable business outcomes.
• 3-5 years' experience in design research, product strategy and design and/or service design.
• A story or portfolio reflecting a full understanding of the entire product cycle, from initial conception through build and into deployment.
• Extensive experience planning and facilitating cross-functional workshops at various levels of leadership in a corporate setting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Consulting experience.
• Experience in business strategy and value assessment to align product strategy to business objectives.
• Creative problem solving with decisiveness while leading research efforts through ambiguous spaces.
• Bias toward action in ambiguous environments.
• Willingness to explore new ideas and complete additional work when needed.
• Ability to plan and facilitate research efforts to better understand people and their environments.
• Ability to analyze and synthesize research into actionable insights and recommendations.
• Ability to structure and lead workshops that align research insights to defined business goals, determine priorities, and leverage artifacts to make ideas clearly understood.
• Collaborative maker with experience creating psychologically safe environments where people can innovate.
• Ability to coach to a product mindset and articulate problems and solutions clearly while striving for alignment.