Strategist (Product Manager x Project Manager)
Who we are
L+R is an innovation consultancy and design studio. We were launched to make bold ideas a reality. We are designers and thinkers, motivated by our insatiable desire to improve life through design. Since 2012, L+R has been creating value for those daring to revolutionize their processes, technologies, and customer experience. Our clients span industries and platforms, and we work closely with them to create, develop, and enhance their products and services; in short, we turn great ideas into efficient actions and beautiful experiences. With offices in Brooklyn and Barcelona, and a “remote first” team, L+R is an agile group of passionate strategists, designers, and engineers making an impact.
We are motivated by our desire to build products with economic, social, environmental, emotional, or physical benefits. Technology has a critical role in shaping society and we are guided by a commitment to responsible innovation. From the beginning, we’ve always believed that the most barrier-breaking solutions come from a deep trust in the design process, and that true impact happens when everyone at the table is operating from the place where strategy meets aesthetics. We strive every day to make truly great digital products that encompass that belief.
L+R is looking for a Strategist to join its team and lead with this same understanding. Interested? Keep reading…
What we offer:
- Salary floor of 75,000 (per L+R’s living wage policy)
- Work from anywhere, with offices in Brooklyn, NY and Barcelona, Spain
- 4 day work week option
- Employer sponsored health benefits including dental and vision (for US based employees)
- Employer contributions to 401k
- Educational stipend to continue improving your skills, $2k/year
- Travel stipend to collaborate with other team members in different locations throughout the year, $1k/year
- Fitness stipend of $80/month
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Menstruation leave for people with uterus
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Pet-ernity leave: 1 week of paid leave when you adopt a new pet
- Laptop/workstation hardware for full time employees
- The salary range for this position: $75-120k
What you’ll do
As a Project Strategist, you will work with a diverse group of leaders and entrepreneurs to support their business growth through the implementation and development of strategic and human centered technology. In this role, you will ensure that all L+R teams work together effectively and efficiently to deliver projects on time and under budget. This role has aspects of digital product strategy, product management, client success, and project management.
You will be a trusted partner to L+R’s customers, working with them and L+R leadership to identify pain-points and communicate a vision for the product. You will leverage your program management, technical, organizational, and strategic expertise to understand the client’s business and user goals, translate them into an executable plan, and lead successful implementation of that plan by collaborating with our Design and Engineering leads to manage workflows, owning the delivery process to ensure impeccable execution every step of the way.
Some specifics:
Create
- Timelines and manage budgets
- Client and project specific strategies that pull in and utilize the strengths of L+R’s core and contract teams.
- Strong relationships with clients built on clear communication (strong listening), trust, and delivering value.
Collaborate
- Manage external stakeholder (client) communication- they always feel love and know what is going on
- Client education- make sure client/team is empowered drive the car we build
- Delegate work and tasks to appropriate team members
- Facilitate creativity and experimentation
- Build project shaping/feature requirement documents alongside designers and software engineers.
- Work with the Business Development team to flag opportunities to expand L+R’s client offering and services, and educate the client on future project opportunities and recommendations.
Contribute
- Determine when collaboration/check points is/are necessary and between whom. Schedule & moderate. [both ad hoc and in advance]
- Delegate work and tasks to appropriate team members
- End to end ownership of a diverse range of projects.
- Act as the client’s voice within L+R’s internal meetings, using your strong understanding of their business and user goals to accurately guide your input.
- Deliver design and technical feedback during project iterations, leveraging your past experience as a builder and creator.
The Project Strategist can be based out of one of L+R’s offices in NYC or Barcelona, with opportunities to work remotely full or part-time.
Who you are
When you aren’t making things happen at work, you’re designing for fun and/or nerding out about emerging technologies -- and you’re doing other stuff for fun, because all work and no play makes...well, you know the rest.
You have a deep appreciation for product design and the creative process, as well as an innate ability to lead and build relationships with teammates. You know what it takes to build something incredible, and you know how to bring out others’ unique skills to get there.
You can also have or can demonstrate:
- Experience with lateral management
- PMP, Prince2, PgMP, Sage or SCRUM/Agile certified
- Experience building and shipping different categories of products
- Ability to speak “developer” and translate various technical implications to non-technical clients
- Strong foundational knowledge of graphic design and an eye for whether or not a deliverable is in line with client’s request
- Foundational knowledge of engineering systems and design styles
- The ability to think at a high level regarding product strategy and vision
- Exceptional time management skills - compared to other people, you take half the time and are twice as good
- Excitement about proactively contributing value to this organization
- Passion for important issues that you want to be a part of
- A sense of humor, and complex knowledge of at least one obscure topic (ex: you’re a topiary buff)
ALL INTERESTED CANDIDATES MUST SUBMIT THEIR APPLICATIONS THROUGH OUR WEBSITE
