Sr. Digital Strategist (div/f/m)

<p>Our experience and engineering team in Germany combines technology and design to create emotive yet conversion-focused concepts, products, services and campaigns at scale and speed. Our speciality is leading digital experiences and digital communication that change perceptions and shape new behaviours to make a difference in the market. Our clients include nationally and internationally recognized brands such as Cosnova, Jägermeister, Beiersdorf, smart and many others.<em><br/></em></p> <p><strong>JOB PURPOSE<br/><br/></strong>The Senior Digital Strategist will be working hand-in-hand with all areas of the business, including the client service team and the experience and engineering team. As an integrated digital agency, our agency services span wide and far. Hence, it’s essential the Senior Digital Strategist has experience with digital experience strategy (product strategy, design and tech strategy, innovation). Ideally also having an interest in the wider range of strategic disciplines, from brand- and business strategy to marketing strategy. The strategy team consists of an eclectic mix of strategists, all with deeply rooted specialisms in the digital experience and engineering, research and innovation space. The Senior Digital Strategist will lead client accounts into their digital future, creating routes for platforms, digital products and experience touchpoints as part of the ever-evolving digital ecosystem - ensuring value is created by cross-functional teams for both users and businesses.<em><br/><br/></em></p> <p>The Senior Digital Strategist will be expected to deliver:</p> <ul> <li>Innovation: instill market-leading innovations into a digital experience strategy that our clients couldn’t get anywhere else</li> <li>Provoke: inspire the team to design and deliver big &amp; bold ideas with impact, all aimed to deliver on our client’s business challenges or ambitions.</li> <li>Building and maintaining trusted client relationships: listening with empathy to understand clients’ challenges, ideas or ambitions and formulate opportunities and processes from it. In this, utilising advanced thinking and approaches to deliver improvements on ROI for any type of business.</li> </ul> <p><strong>KEY RESPONSIBILITIES</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead- and guide a wide range of strategic disciplines; from digital experience strategy to product innovation to tech and data strategy</li> <li>Perform strategic research into qualitative user-/customer needs, cultural consumer trends, category &amp; market potentials, as well as macro developments</li> <li>Innovate our offering by working closely with tech, experience design and data to ensure we are delivering market-leading strategic approaches to our clients;</li> <li>Coordinate with marketing disciplines on a 360° perspective on digital strategy: co-sketching the future of branding, social strategy, creative comms, media and marketing strategy together</li> <li>Upping the benchmark of the work and ensuring we are leading the industry by pushing the boundaries of what’s possible (i.e. with AI, automation, data) while delivering incremental improvements on ROI;</li> <li>Lead and participate in new business pitches; locally and globally.<br/><br/></li> </ul> <p><strong>WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR</strong></p> <ul> <li> <ul> <li>Relevant experience within a strategy-focused role in an agency or consultancy setting</li> <li>Fluency in both German and English</li> <li>A solid understanding &amp; experience within digital experience and engineering</li> <li>Excellent communication and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate complex subjects simply</li> <li>Obsessed by consumer behavior and researching ways to create meaningful communication for every audience out there</li> <li>Ability to work with senior clients on key strategy projects and comfortable presenting to senior-level audiences</li> <li>Very efficient, producing significant output with minimal wasted effort</li> <li>Comfortable planning and facilitating workshops with clients, based on a proven but flexible methodological tool set</li> <li>Ideally experienced with design thinking methodologies</li> <li>Demonstrates strong focus and efficiency and can get stuff done while meeting tight deadlines</li> <li>Loves learning and embracing new things</li> <li>Great interpersonal and listening skills</li> <li>Very organised, with a high attention to detail</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><strong>WE OFFER</strong></p> <p><strong><em>Add location specific benefits</em></strong></p> <ul> <li>Company pension scheme</li> <li>Flexible working hours, working from home and abroad work</li> <li>Lease bike options / JobRad</li> <li>Health &amp; Wellbeing - you have free, anonymous and unlimited access to 1-on-1 online coaching and mindfulness consultations with psychologists via chat, phone or video call</li> <li>€30 per month - You can use the flexible package for digital food stamps and/or fitness providers/sport clubs/m