Senior Strategist, Innovation

Senior Strategist, Innovation

Innovation strategists work with business leaders to define the role their companies need to play in order to grow. Outputs from the innovation strategy team can include opportunity maps, value propositions, product/service strategy, capability configurations and ecosystem frameworks to help the development of prototypes, pilots and roadmaps. Our strategists work not only on innovation assignments but contribute to corporate strategy and branding projects. 

As a Senior Strategist, you are an important strategic voice on client projects, contributing to work that forecasts shifting category dynamics, profiles new growth audiences, orients the team around consumer needs, prioritizes innovation efforts, and more. Senior Strategists are developing as strategic leaders who strengthen client relationships through their counsel and increasingly take on responsibility for guiding junior team members' contributions to build strong narratives and recommendations.

What you will do:

• Synthesize learnings into clear and actionable strategic deliverables including landscape audits, opportunity definition, product/service/brand concepts, and activation roadmaps/tools;


• Create new perspectives on innovation and brand and the impact of change on our clients’ needs;


• Craft and deliver presentations that help senior-level clients understand the implications of our recommendations on growing their business;


• Collaborate closely with internal senior teams and c-level clients to identify opportunities, priorities, and goals; 


• Inform and lead creative approaches to sharpen audience insights;


• Demonstrate business acumen with a strategic mindset, and an ability to understand and define the current business opportunities and value propositions.

Qualifications

• 4-7 years of client-side or consulting experience in product/service development, enterprise innovation, or corporate strategy;


• Fluent in principles and tools of innovation strategy: core, adjacent, and transformational; 


• Exceptional presentation skills; 


• Thrives working in ambiguity and with tight timelines;


• Willing to travel up to 25% for client meetings.

In New York City, the base salary for this position is $100-125K. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors including years of relevant skills and experience, level of responsibility, and qualifications. This position reports into our Director, Strategy.

Proto is a New York based company with offices at 3 World Trade. Our staff is encouraged to work-from-office on days of their choosing based on personal preferences, collaboration moments, client meetings, and all-company gatherings. We also support workplace flexibility and have made work-from-anywhere available to all staff (within a 3-hour time zone of eastern standard time zone). Our core business hours are generally 9:30am-6:00pm EST; however, due to our client service model and collaborative working culture, individual working hours fluctuate to reflect client deadlines and deliverables.