Product Strategist, WordPress

Modern Tribe is looking for a talented, detail oriented Product Strategist to join our team. The Product Strategist’s primary role is to work with our clients to help focus business objectives, develop and interpret project goals, and translate them into executable plans for our teams.

This requires a broad understanding of business strategy, software/website development, user experience, technology, how it can be used to accomplish objectives, and how that technology will intersect with individuals inside and outside of an organization. The Product Strategist is one of our primary intersections with our clients – you are one of the faces of our projects.

The Product Strategist supports design and dev teams by providing research, goals and requirements to inform creative ideation on features and presentation of content and technical scope. This role requires an understanding of the product development cycle, how to release and when to release, how to target an MVP and guide a product roadmap successfully.

Inclusion Statement

Modern Tribe is committed to a culture that embraces diversity and inclusion. We foster an environment of collaboration, open engagement, fairness and respect regardless of differences in age, race, disability, national origin, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status. As a hybrid workspace ranging from distributed contractors to traditional employees, we value the unique perspectives and experiences of our global team.

We come from all walks of life. We are small business owners. We are tattoo aficionados and 80’s movie buffs and ex-pats. We are homeschool teachers. We are single parents. We are musicians, college drop-outs, and entrepreneurs. We are travelers, feminists, runners, volunteers, and makers. We are a Modern Tribe.

Everyday we strive to fulfill our motto: live well and do good work. We hope you will consider joining us.

What You’ll Do

Guide the discovery and research of multiple projects

• Perform user and stakeholder research
• Speak directly with stakeholders and users about their needs and pain points
• Facilitate team sprint planning by walking them through ideas and requirements
• Be a creative collaborator with your Project Manager as well as Creative and Engineering during discovery and ideation

Guide and shape project execution:

• Inform creative briefs and technical scope by providing goals, requirements, constraints and artifacts
• Identify, document and translate requirements into executable plans that adhere to both timeline and budget.
• Work with team members to estimate features.
• Review and sign off on features, sprint demos, and prototypes.

Own the customer relationship, along with your project leads, steering the client through the project lifecycle and setting expectations.

• Provide customer relationship leadership, management, customer advocacy and upselling

Personal Competencies

• Strong communication skills
• Experience working as part of a remote team
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented
• Strong organizational skills
• A methodical approach to all tasks
• Ability to prioritize workloads and meet deadlines
• Ability to work on multiple projects at the same time and complete tasks in a timely manner
• Ability to work remotely with little-to-no supervision is a must
• Excited to be part of a team with the potential for a long term relationship
• Fluent English speaker

Knowledge & Experience

• 3-5 years of experience working as a Product Strategist ideally on a distributed web design / dev team
• Experience performing user and stakeholder research
• Experience Identifying, documenting and translating requirements into executable plans that adhere to both timeline and budget.
• Experience owning the customer relationship through the project lifecycle and setting expectations.
• Deep WordPress experience