SUMMARY

As an HX company, we believe to solve a business problem, we must solve a human problem. By doing so, we will create better human experiences that deliver business results. Our strategists are essential in finding and solving that human problem.

WONGDOODY Europe is seeking an Associate Strategy Director for our London Studio. The strategist is essential in the early stages of an engagement (which may be pre or post sale) in which the outlines of what we are trying to achieve for the client may be opaque - although the business imperative is clear. The strategist will assess the situation through a number of lenses, identify the clear area of opportunity and establish the frameworks that will help guide us to the best outcome - not just in the early stages but throughout the project - to deliver successful human and business outcomes.

Our Digital Strategists work with a diverse, wide ranging team including business and data analysts, experience designers, other digital strategists and technologists across a range of geographies. It is critical that the Strategist make clients and team members feel both comfortable with and engaged in the entire design process, whilst also ensuring that strategic considerations are integral at each step of the initiative. The Associate Strategy Director will have their own deliverables / responsibilities and will also closely with the UX team to help define the product / service that will be created which will uphold the strategic imperative on co-owned deliverables.

The Digital Strategist works independently with supervision from an Associate Strategy Director. They should be pro-active and independent in running their aspect of smaller projects / pitches whilst also supporting larger strategy teams on larger more complex projects. Always feeling confident that they are part of a supportive whole.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Strategy Director at WONGDOODY Europe will be responsible for:

Collecting and analysing data to clearly frame an opportunity/challenge into a concrete brief or value proposition- with linked KPI's which the wider team can start to ideate around. This could be for a pitch or a project.

Supporting a cross functional team through the process of ideating, prototyping and ultimately scaling a digital solution which meets the original business and end user consumer need. Acting as their guide to ensure they don't deviate from the initial strategic imperative that the strategist identified.

Working closely with the UX team to express the strategy within the digital product / service - shared responsibilities include user research, facilitating workshops, creating personas and user journeys, ideation and testing.

QUALIFICATIONS

You Are:
Someone who wants to influence your own development. You're looking for a company where you have the opportunity to pursue your interests across functions and geographies (Europe mainly). You bring to the organisation the following competencies:

• Strong academic performance
• Superb verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal communication skills.
• A self starting and collaborative attitude
• Flexible thinking, highly adaptable attitude, and able to juggle competing priorities with ease
• Business development acumen, to identify further opportunities and help grow our practise
• Experience in understanding market problems and developing strategic recommendations which deliver on growth opportunities through bringing products or services to market
• Hands-on research expertise, from ethnographic and other qualitative research methods to quantitative methods (surveys, focus groups, quantitative analysis)
• Experience distilling research into concrete areas of opportunity/hypothesis
• Experience designing and facilitating workshops and activities for clients and colleagues in both large and small groups
• A passion for creating market leading digital experiences
• Knowledge of presentation tools, such as Keynote and PowerPoint
• A sense of humour!

Your experience includes:

• Extensive experience in assessing people's needs and behaviours as end consumers, employees or partners
• Extensive digital product and /or service experience (6/10 years ideally more)
• Extensive experience in digital product and service experience design and the type of support an experience design team needs to create an experience which will deliver against a strategy you have created
• Management of 1 or more people
• Growing an account as a lead strategist supporting an account/engagement lead
• Working with a range of different 'teams' collaborating to drive strategic outcomes
• Digital practice within one or more of the following:
  • Big Consulting organisation
  • Digital practice (product development) within advertising holding company or major agency
  • Digital/design practice within client side

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

TO APPLY: For full consideration please upload a CV.

WONGDOODY is a proud Equal Employment Opportunity employer where we are committed to creating an equitable, diverse and inclusive workspace regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. We are intentional about creating a space which not only celebrates and embraces, but also reflects the diversity of the world we live in. Candidates from diverse backgrounds strongly encouraged to apply.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

HYBRID WORKING APPROACH

We spent a great deal of time speaking with our teammates and our leaders to define our future way of working. We used our values to guide our approach; putting relationships first, collaboration and having fun to find the right blend of flexibility and balance.

From March 2022, we'll come together every Tuesday to connect and collaborate, and then either a Wednesday or Thursday.

We'll continue to evolve the approach once we get into the swing of it, but we're confident we're starting from a good place.

BENEFITS

• Private Medical Insurance
• Life assurance
• Pension
• Income protection
• Cycle to Work
• Summer Hours
• Employee Assistance Program
• Regular team socials
• Hybrid Working providing flexibility to work from our fabulous studio in Old Street and from home