Referrals Only is looking for a Lead Product Manager Strategist to lead discovery engagements across the full problem-finding and validation cycle. You will act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, understand client needs, drive commercial results, and guide workstreams toward a common product vision and delivery plan.
What You'll Do
- Lead discovery engagements across problem framing, customer discovery, concepting, evaluation, prototyping and validation.
- Build a shared product vision and roadmap and guide the team in translating strategic direction into delivery.
- Apply hypothesis-driven thinking to identify and test assumptions across desirability, feasibility, usability and viability risks.
- Collaborate with Design Researchers and Product Engineers to design and run rapid experiments, synthesize findings and generate insights.
- Conduct comparative analysis and maturity assessments to diagnose current state and define strategic opportunities.
- Apply business modelling and business process analysis to understand client context, identify inefficiencies and shape recommendations.
- Define and articulate business value clearly, connecting strategic insights to measurable outcomes and stakeholder priorities.
- Manage scope and value proposition definition throughout the engagement lifecycle, ensuring alignment between discovery and business objectives.
- Cultivate meaningful relationships with client stakeholders, bridging technical and business worlds.
- Collaborate with client stakeholders to define key metrics of success, including governance, compliance and risk considerations.
- Track industry trends and the competitive landscape to inform product strategy and target market segments.
- Synthesize research, data and business insights into clear strategic recommendations that drive alignment and decision-making.
What We're Looking For
- Hands-on experience leading discovery engagements, including problem framing, customer research, experiment design and hypothesis validation.
- Experience shaping a product vision and strategy and translating it into a roadmap with clear business and customer value measures.
- Experience with business modelling, process analysis and comparative analysis, and can conduct maturity assessments.
- Comfortable working with agile practices and using customer data to understand user needs and product performance.
- Experience working in regulated or compliance-heavy environments and navigating governance and risk constraints.
- Fluent in Spanish.
- At least upper intermediate English proficiency.
Team & Environment
You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, particularly Design Researchers and Product Engineers. At Referrals Only, you'll join a dynamic and inclusive community of bright and supportive colleagues, with a commitment to continuous learning and development. The culture balances autonomy with strong cultivation, supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow.
