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Strategy Director (Temp)

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Overview

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Strategy Director (Temp) based in the United States.

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The Strategy Director will provide senior strategic leadership across a diverse portfolio of digital product, brand, marketing, and customer experience initiatives for a leading technology client. You will connect business objectives, customer insights, product strategy, and brand positioning to develop clear, impactful strategic direction. Working closely with senior client stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams, you will turn complex challenges and ambiguous requirements into actionable recommendations. You will oversee multiple workstreams, facilitate high-level discussions, and ensure strategic consistency from discovery through execution and iteration. In addition to guiding ongoing projects, you will help identify growth opportunities, contribute to proposals, and strengthen long-term client relationships. This remote contract opportunity is ideal for an experienced strategy leader with strong UX and product expertise, excellent communication skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-moving, collaborative environment.

Strategic Leadership: Lead strategy across a varied portfolio of digital product, brand, marketing, and customer experience initiatives. Establish clear strategic direction, maintain alignment across workstreams, and ensure recommendations support both business objectives and customer needs.

Senior Client Partnership: Serve as a trusted day-to-day strategic advisor to senior client stakeholders. Build credibility quickly, lead strategic conversations, facilitate decision-making, and present thoughtful perspectives that help clients navigate complex challenges and evolving priorities.

UX and Product Strategy: Apply strong user experience and product strategy expertise to understand customer behaviors, business needs, and product opportunities. Translate research, insights, and complex requirements into actionable guidance for design, creative, technology, and delivery teams.

End-to-End Strategy Development: Guide strategic initiatives from discovery and problem definition through insight development, recommendations, execution, and iteration. Ensure that strategic thinking remains relevant and effective throughout the project lifecycle.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with design, creative, engineering, production, and account management teams to maintain strategic coherence and deliver integrated solutions across multiple initiatives.

Strategic Storytelling and Communication: Develop compelling narratives, presentations, frameworks, and recommendations that simplify complex ideas and support informed decision-making. Lead workshops and working sessions that build alignment, encourage collaboration, and translate strategic thinking into practical action.

Portfolio and Workstream Management: Oversee multiple concurrent projects, manage competing priorities, and help teams navigate ambiguity while maintaining high standards of strategic quality and client service.

Business Development and Account Growth: Contribute to proposals, pitches, and growth initiatives across technology and commerce accounts. Identify emerging opportunities, support strategic planning conversations, and help expand client relationships.

Technology and Innovation: Stay informed about emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, and assess how they can meaningfully inform strategic recommendations, product experiences, and business opportunities.

Quality and Continuous Improvement: Promote a culture of curiosity, strategic rigor, and continuous learning. Help multidisciplinary teams refine their approaches, strengthen collaboration, and consistently deliver high-quality work.

Requirements

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Professional Experience: Significant experience leading strategy for complex, high-visibility client relationships, ideally within a digital agency, consultancy, technology company, or comparable multidisciplinary environment.

UX and Product Strategy Expertise: A strong foundation in user experience and product strategy, with the ability to move confidently between digital product experiences, brand positioning, marketing strategy, and broader business challenges.

SaaS and B2B Experience: Strong experience working with software-as-a-service (SaaS) or business-to-business (B2B) organizations. Familiarity with enterprise platforms, connected ecosystems, or technically complex products is particularly valuable.

Client Leadership and Facilitation: Excellent client-facing skills and executive presence, with a demonstrated ability to establish trust, influence senior stakeholders, facilitate productive discussions, and guide complex decision-making processes.

Strategic and Systems Thinking: The ability to connect customer needs, business goals, product capabilities, and brand considerations while maintaining a holistic perspective across multiple workstreams.

Communication and Storytelling: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to develop persuasive strategic narratives, deliver presentations, lead workshops, and explain complex ideas clearly to diverse audiences.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Proven experience partnering with design, creative, technology, production, and account teams to transform ambiguous challenges into aligned strategies and actionable outcomes.

Business Development Skills: Experience contributing to proposals, pitches, account expansion, or other growth-oriented client conversations.

Adaptability and Prioritization: Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities, respond to changing requirements, and maintain strategic quality in a fast-paced environment.

Technology Awareness: Curiosity about emerging technologies and AI, combined with sound judgment about their practical applications, opportunities, and limitations.

Location and Availability: Must be based on the U.S. West Coast and available for a 40-hour workweek. The assignment is expected to begin as soon as possible and continue through December 23, with a strong likelihood of extension. Travel to Seattle is required approximately one to two times per month.

What We Offer

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Competitive contract compensation: Expected pay range of $113–$140 per hour, depending on location, experience, and skill set.

Regional pay adjustments: Compensation reflects three U.S. regional pay ranges, with adjustments of 15% for US1 locations and 7.5% for US2 locations relative to the US3 base range.

Flexible work environment: A remote-first opportunity within a flexible, hybrid work culture.

Retirement benefits: Access to a 401(k) plan with employer matching and immediate vesting.

Healthcare coverage: Medical, vision, and accident insurance options, subject to applicable eligibility requirements.

Paid time off and holidays: Generous paid holidays and an unlimited PTO policy, subject to applicable policies and assignment eligibility.

Wellness support: A monthly well-being stipend to support personal wellness.

Career development: Access to career management resources and leadership training opportunities.

Professional impact: The opportunity to lead high-profile strategic initiatives, collaborate with multidisciplinary experts, and influence digital product, brand, and marketing experiences for a major technology client.

Potential contract extension: A strong likelihood of extending the assignment beyond the initial contract period, depending on business needs.

Benefits eligibility: Certain benefits may depend on applicable law, company policy, hours worked, and assignment duration.

How Jobgether works:

We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!

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✓Competitive contract compensation: Expected pay range of $113–$140 per hour, depending on location, experience, and skill set.

✓Regional pay adjustments: Compensation reflects three U.S. regional pay ranges, with adjustments of 15% for US1 locations and 7.5% for US2 locations relative to the US3 base range.

✓Flexible work environment: A remote-first opportunity within a flexible, hybrid work culture.

✓Retirement benefits: Access to a 401(k) plan with employer matching and immediate vesting.

✓Healthcare coverage: Medical, vision, and accident insurance options, subject to applicable eligibility requirements.

✓Paid time off and holidays: Generous paid holidays and an unlimited PTO policy, subject to applicable policies and assignment eligibility.

✓Wellness support: A monthly well-being stipend to support personal wellness.

✓Career development: Access to career management resources and leadership training opportunities.

✓Professional impact: The opportunity to lead high-profile strategic initiatives, collaborate with multidisciplinary experts, and influence digital product, brand, and marketing experiences for a major technology client.

✓Potential contract extension: A strong likelihood of extending the assignment beyond the initial contract period, depending on business needs.

✓Benefits eligibility: Certain benefits may depend on applicable law, company policy, hours worked, and assignment duration.

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Where is the job

United States

Remote within one country

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About this job

Pay per year: ≈ $235,040–$291,200 a year; 290% above the $67,500 median for Other jobs on Jobera (121,957 salaries).
Who can apply: United States
Posted: Today
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