Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Target Resume Now
About the Role
We are Edenspiekermann, an independent design consultancy seeking a Design Strategy Director to lead and grow our Product Strategy practice. This role works at the intersection of market insight, design excellence, and AI-driven development, partnering with world-leading organizations.
Responsibilities
- Lead client engagements end-to-end, from product market fit workshops to product org design, acting as a trusted sparring partner for CPOs, Heads of Product, and VP-level stakeholders.
- Help clients invent and sharpen their product direction by translating user research, market signals, and business goals into actionable product strategy and roadmaps.
- Guide product innovation engagements, including AI-driven product development and agentic workflow integration, with real proof points.
- Unlock product teams by understanding their challenges and implementing solutions such as restructuring team setups, clarifying decision rights, or redesigning ways of working.
- Bring a strong design eye and advocate for design culture within client organizations to foster conditions for great products.
- Act as the primary contact and project owner for clients, driving trust, clarity, and strategic confidence.
- Coach and inspire junior colleagues to grow into strategic contributors.
- Shape Edenspiekermann’s product strategy offering, contributing to pitches, delivery, and method development.
Requirements
- A minimum of 8 years of experience in product strategy, product design, or digital consulting, with at least 3 years in an agency or consultancy context.
- A strong track record working with product teams in complex organizations, ideally in enterprise or regulated industries.
- Deep fluency in product thinking, including product-market fit, iteration frameworks, product org design, and the full lifecycle of digital product development.
- Hands-on experience with AI-driven product development, demonstrating proof points in agentic workflows, AI product strategy, or AI-assisted delivery.
- An eye for great design and appreciation for design culture, with working knowledge of brand strategy mechanics and how brand and product thinking reinforce each other.
- Excellent communication skills, comfortable facilitating C-level strategy sessions and running hands-on product workshops.
- Fluent English communication; German is a strong plus.
- A consultancy mindset: structured thinking, business acumen, and the ability to work in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
- Readiness to take ownership, make decisions, and bring energy and clarity to complex client situations.
- Experience as a disciplinary leader, including building, developing, and retaining a team, creating a culture of feedback and accountability, and fostering individual growth.
Skills
- Product Strategy
- Product Design
- Digital Consulting
- Product Market Fit
- Product Org Design
- Digital Product Development
- AI-driven Product Development
- Agentic Workflows
- AI Product Strategy
- AI-Assisted Delivery
- Design Culture
- Brand Strategy
- Communication
- Facilitation
- Workshop Leadership
- Structured Thinking
- Business Acumen
- Team Leadership
- Coaching
- Mentoring
Location
- Berlin
Work Type
- Hybrid work
Experience Level
- 8+ years of experience
- 3+ years in agency or consultancy
Benefits
- 30 days paid vacation
- Hybrid work
- Dog-friendly office
- Work-life balance support
- Potential four-day week
- Urban Sports Club
- Food club
- ESPI cuisine
- Regular team gatherings
- In-house coaching and mentoring
About the Company
- Edenspiekermann is an independent design consultancy with over 40 years of experience helping organizations invent, build, and evolve their products.
- We are an ambitious design consultancy that collaborates with clients in a partnership model, aiming for high quality standards while staying humble and unconventional.
- Our interaction designers work in agile and interdisciplinary teams on websites and platforms for major brands and startups, combining conceptual thinking, design expertise, and web/app development knowledge with a user-centric approach.
- We advise and coach clients' teams to provide the best customer experience.
- We encourage initiative and understand that there is no such thing as a perfect applicant.
Equal Opportunity
- We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications – regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/beliefs, disability, age, and sexual orientation and identity.