Director, Product Strategy
Qodea
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Reporting to the Director of Workplace Solutions, this senior, client-facing product role will be anchored to our Google account
- Partner directly with Account Leadership to own product strategy and management and run point on daily activities for critical projects
- Lead discovery, shape briefs, define roadmaps, present to senior partners, and guide teams from insight to delivery.
Requirements
- Lead product strategy for the Google account — setting vision, framing opportunities, and translating ambiguity into actionable product direction
- Run end-to-end product discovery: stakeholder interviews, user research, synthesis, hypothesis generation, experiment design
- Define and manage product roadmaps that balance client ambition with delivery reality
- Create a strategic product backlogs, writing clear, outcome-focused epics and stories that drive development.
- Use AI tooling intelligently across research, prototyping, and analysis — and help the wider team do the same with discernment
- Develop business cases, product narratives, and go-to-market framing grounded in data and user insight
- Design and facilitate workshops that create real decisions, not just alignment theatre
- Write and present decks, briefs, and strategy documents that are precise, and built for the right audience
- Shape Beyond's product practice — setting standards, mentoring strategists, and contributing to how we work
- Play a meaningful role in business development: pitches, proposals, and expanding our remit with existing clients
- Contribute thought leadership: develop POVs, author insights, and represent Beyond in your area of expertise.
- **Essential Experience**
- 5+ years in a product leadership role: product strategy, senior product management, or a founder track — ideally with agency, consultancy, or high-growth product company experience
- Experience with shipping products or features to users
- Comfort operating at both strategic and execution levels — writing a vision doc in the morning, reviewing a research script in the afternoon
- Expert command of product frameworks (lean startup, jobs-to-be-done, continuous discovery, outcome-based roadmapping) — and the judgment to know when not to use them
- A working, honest relationship with AI tools: you've used them in your practice, you know their limits, and you can help clients think clearly about where they create value
- Deep empathy – you listen to customers, colleagues, and clients to design with insight and intention.
- **Desirable Experience**
- Experience leading product work on platform businesses or large consumer-facing digital products
- Familiarity with the Google ecosystem — Cloud, Workspace, Android, Pixel
- A background that cuts across research, design, and engineering — you know enough about each discipline to earn their trust
- Experience building or scaling a product practice inside an agency or consultancy
Benefits
- Working at BeyondAt Beyond, we empower you to leave a positive mark on the world. On top of a competitive salary, we offer great health benefits, a matched 401K, parental leave, training funds, and free snacks.
- You’ll also get 28 days of PTO and your birthday off!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
product strategyproduct managementend-to-end product discoverystakeholder interviewsuser researchproduct roadmapsAI toolingbusiness casesproduct narrativesproduct frameworks
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationempathystrategic thinkingcollaborationmentoringfacilitationinsight-driven designdecision-makingthought leadership