Job title: Senior Strategist

Company: Apply Digital

Job description: Apply Digital helps our partners generate, then scale smart, people-centric businesses, products and services.

The Strategy team sits at the frontier of every opportunity, helping clients uncover how their businesses’ products and services can succeed in a rapidly changing world. By harnessing modern methods the Strategy team identifies whitespace then collaborates with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver break-through business, product and service outcomes. Our Strategy team consists of world-class business strategists, researchers, product specialists, data analysts and designers.

AS A SENIOR STRATEGIST YOU:

Advise and contribute to business growth

• Cultivate and support the growth of client business; and be the champion for customer insights and strategy with clients and internal teams
• Identify whitespace opportunities, shape innovative solutions and build support and alignment across Apply Digital’s client’s stakeholders
• Provide senior-level consulting, planning, and leadership of strategy and planning projects

Bring facts and insights to life

• Design and lead research initiatives to uncover business, customer, cultural, technological, and industry/macro-level insights
• Bring your research to life through personas, customer journeys, experience blueprints, insight-opportunity frameworks, system maps, stories and scenarios
• Use data and insights to create compelling and well-justified recommendations for the client’s business products and services

Conceive winning digital solutions

• Use divergent design thinking techniques to identify and generate valuable product, services and marketing concepts
• Prepare and utilize a range of validation and/or prioritization methods to determine the desirability, viability and feasibility of potential solutions
• Help quantify opportunities, both internally and with clients, understanding what constitutes a big idea or a small one, what could transform a product or a category, and what is right for the challenge at hand

Devise user-centric strategies

• Write actionable, user-focused, business-minded strategies having applied creative thinking and deep commercial expertise
• Plan and manage strategy projects end-to-end, ensuring the requisite processes and resources are in place for successful delivery and exceptional client results

Inspire and guide clients towards outcomes

• Develop and articulate compelling presentations for external clients and internal briefings
• Facilitate internal and external parties through various activities (i.e. workshops, planning, retrospectives, demos, etc.)
• Continuously engage the client, other stakeholders, and the team to ensure the team is building the right product and delivering against the defined strategy
• Evaluate results and help optimize solutions post-launch

Continually evolve and grow

• Continuously learn about disruptive industries, consumer, and business trends
• Provide thought leadership to clients, Apply Strategy and Apply Digital
• Contribute to Apply Strategy’s evolving practice methodology

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• 5+ years of experience in a planning and/or strategy role
• 3+ years of experience in a consulting or agency company
• MBA or Bachelor’s Degree in-related field is an asset
• Excellent data analysis and research skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong experience working directly with and influencing clients
• Strong experience in research (primary and secondary) and workshop facilitation
• The resilience to work in a flexible, start-up environment
• Passion for user-centered experience design, business innovation, technology, and digital products
• Collaborative spirit; team player
• Initiative; able to juggle multiple projects at once

LIFE AT APPLY

• Educational opportunities across the entire company, and within your area of expertise
• Robust Medical, Optical, Dental, and Extended Health Benefits plan
• Regular team and company events (curling, karaoke, escape rooms, and more!)
• Flexible vacation policy
• Regular team and company meals
• Growth in your role alongside the company’s growth

ABOUT APPLY

Apply Digital is a digital experience consultancy with offices in Vancouver, Toronto, Los Angeles and New York. Informed by human insights and empirical data, Apply makes and markets apps, platforms, and brand experiences that are smart by nature and intuitive by design. From the apps we design to the platforms we engineer, Apply is driven by an ambition to create world-class digital experiences that enrich and enhance people’s everyday lives.

Expected salary:

Location: Toronto, ON

Job date: Sat, 07 Aug 2021 07:35:27 GMT

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