Strategist, Innovation

Strategist, Innovation

Strategist, Innovation

Innovation Strategists are responsible for gathering wide varieties of quantitative and qualitative data, synthesizing learnings, and helping to envision new opportunities. On a daily basis, they will work hand-in-hand with brand and experience strategists to explore and identify emerging influences on their client’s business. They conduct desktop and primary research, help find proxies for innovative business models, and support more senior teams in developing opportunity models.

Innovation Strategists are responsible for gathering wide varieties of quantitative and qualitative data, synthesizing learnings, and helping to envision new opportunities. On a daily basis, they will work hand-in-hand with brand and experience strategists to explore and identify emerging influences on their client’s business. They conduct desktop and primary research, help find proxies for innovative business models, and support more senior teams in developing opportunity models.

Innovation Strategists are responsible for gathering wide varieties of quantitative and qualitative data, synthesizing learnings, and helping to envision new opportunities. On a daily basis, they will work hand-in-hand with brand and experience strategists to explore and identify emerging influences on their client’s business. They conduct desktop and primary research, help find proxies for innovative business models, and support more senior teams in developing opportunity models.

What you
will do:

What you
will do:

What you
will do:

Apply both creative thinking and defendable rigor to our client’s toughest business challenges;

Apply both creative thinking and defendable rigor to our client’s toughest business challenges;

Apply both creative thinking and defendable rigor to our client’s toughest business challenges;

Dig deep into the needs of B2C and B2B businesses and audiences across a variety of industries and emerge with actionable insights;

Dig deep into the needs of B2C and B2B businesses and audiences across a variety of industries and emerge with actionable insights;

Dig deep into the needs of B2C and B2B businesses and audiences across a variety of industries and emerge with actionable insights;

Collaborate with, and take input from strategists, technologists, and designers from different backgrounds;

Collaborate with, and take input from strategists, technologists, and designers from different backgrounds;

Collaborate with, and take input from strategists, technologists, and designers from different backgrounds;

Synthesize learnings into clear and actionable strategic deliverables including landscape audits, journey maps, strategic guides, and product/service/brand concepts;

Synthesize learnings into clear and actionable strategic deliverables including landscape audits, journey maps, strategic guides, and product/service/brand concepts;

Synthesize learnings into clear and actionable strategic deliverables including landscape audits, journey maps, strategic guides, and product/service/brand concepts;

Work with internal and client teams to develop and present work products to executive audiences.

Work with internal and client teams to develop and present work products to executive audiences.

Work with internal and client teams to develop and present work products to executive audiences.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Qualifications

2+ years of client side or consulting experience in product/service development, enterprise innovation, or corporate strategy;

2+ years of client side or consulting experience in product/service development, enterprise innovation, or corporate strategy;

2+ years of client side or consulting experience in product/service development, enterprise innovation, or corporate strategy;

Working familiarity with basic principles of innovation strategy: core, adjacent, and transformational;

Working familiarity with basic principles of innovation strategy: core, adjacent, and transformational;

Working familiarity with basic principles of innovation strategy: core, adjacent, and transformational;

Willingness to learn brand and experience strategy;

Willingness to learn brand and experience strategy;

Willingness to learn brand and experience strategy;

Comfort working with ambiguity, new ways of working, and tight timelines;

Comfort working with ambiguity, new ways of working, and tight timelines;

Comfort working with ambiguity, new ways of working, and tight timelines;

Willing to travel up to 25% for client meetings.

Willing to travel up to 25% for client meetings.

Willing to travel up to 25% for client meetings.

In New York City, the base salary for this position is $80-90K. 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 Associate 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.

In New York City, the base salary for this position is $80-90K. 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 Associate 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.

In New York City, the base salary for this position is $80-90K. 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 Associate 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.

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3 World Trade Center
30th Floor
New York, NY 10007

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Proto Innovation
3 World Trade Center
30th Floor
New York, NY 10007

Newsletter

Only sent a few times a year and includes relevant content for those doing brand, innovation, or experience work at organizations of all sizes.

Proton

A personalized business newsletter subscription product built on your specific organization’s innovation priorities, curated by job title and role and powered by our proprietary AI.

Contact

Proto Innovation
3 World Trade Center
30th Floor
New York, NY 10007