Strategic Project Lead (Product Strategist) – Contract
📍 Location: London (Hybrid)
💰 Rate: Up to £600 per day
📆 Duration: 9 months
📜 IR35 Status: Outside IR35
About the Role
We are looking for a Strategic Project Lead (Product Strategist) to drive the end-to-end delivery of a new tech product. This is a critical role for someone with a consulting or strategic background who has hands-on product and project delivery experience. You will work across the full lifecycle – from initial design and strategy through to execution – ensuring a seamless transition to the tech team for build and delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development of a new tech product, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Own the project delivery from concept through to execution, bridging strategy, design, and technical implementation.
- Work closely with stakeholders, designers, and tech teams to define and shape the product roadmap.
- Dive into the details—understanding processes, workflows, and requirements to translate them into actionable plans for the tech team.
- Manage timelines, risks, and dependencies to ensure smooth delivery of the product.
- Collaborate with engineering, UX/UI, and business teams to optimise workflows and decision-making.
- Drive strategic thinking and problem-solving, ensuring the product meets both user and commercial needs.
- Define key metrics and success criteria to measure project impact.
Key Requirements
- Strong experience in product strategy and project delivery, ideally from a consulting, strategic, or product background.
- Proven ability to lead end-to-end product development, from design through to delivery.
- Deep product understanding—ability to define, refine, and validate product requirements.
- Experience working with tech teams—translating business requirements into clear, actionable development tasks.
- Comfortable working in hybrid, agile environments, managing cross-functional teams.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills—able to go deep into the details and then zoom out to see the big picture.
- Exceptional communication skills, able to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Why Join?
- Work on an exciting new tech product with high impact.
- Competitive day rate outside IR35.
- Hybrid working with a London-based team.
- Opportunity to lead from strategy through to execution.
If you’re a strategic thinker with product and project leadership experience, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today! 🚀