[Hiring] Associate Director, Product Strategy @Code and Theory

Role Description

The Associate Director, Product is a developing senior practitioner who owns strategy workstreams within larger engagements and is taking on growing client relationship responsibility. This person works confidently across the full range of strategic product work with growing independence and is building the presence and judgment to lead in the room.

• Own discovery workstreams within engagements — competitive research, stakeholder interviews, user needs synthesis — and translate outputs into clear, actionable product insights.
• Develop product frameworks, vision documents, and roadmap inputs that reflect a clear strategic point of view, grounded in business goals and user reality.
• Translate that thinking into sequenced, scoped direction, defining what gets built first and why in terms a client and a delivery team can both follow.
• Build and apply prioritization models that help clients make deliberate decisions about where to focus.
• Facilitate alignment sessions with the confidence to move a room from competing options to a clear position, including in the face of disagreement.
• Ensure strategic direction is expressed in terms a delivery team can act on: reviewing, shaping, and where needed writing user stories that carry the intent of the strategy into the work.
• Contribute to defining success metrics for engagements and use data and research outputs to validate strategic recommendations.
• Apply AI tools independently across research, synthesis, prototyping, and deliverable creation with developing judgment about where they sharpen thinking.
• Begin advising clients on where AI thinking can be embedded into their teams and ways of working, under senior direction.
• Support Senior Directors in new business contexts and develop junior practitioners through active coaching.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in product strategy, digital strategy, or a related role, with a track record of owning strategy workstreams with limited oversight.
• Strong working knowledge across the core areas of strategic product work.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategic thinking into concrete, actionable direction.
• Comfort facilitating workshops, presenting to senior stakeholders, and making trade-off calls.
• Ability to synthesize competitive research, user data, and business context into product recommendations.
• Active, independent fluency with AI tools for research, synthesis, prototyping, and deliverable creation.
• Emerging understanding of AI as an organizational capability.
• Demonstrated ability to develop junior practitioners and manage defined project workstreams with reliability and independence.

Requirements

• Experience carrying work through to delivery decisions or measurable outcomes is strongly preferred.
• Ability to structure a discovery, develop a vision, build a prioritization model, and interpret analysis.
• Ability to ensure strategic intent is expressed in delivery.

Benefits

• The target range of compensation for this role is $125,000 - $160,000.
• Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including skill set, level of experience, and location.