Senior Digital Strategist

SOFT's client, located in Syracuse, NY is looking for a Senior Digital Strategist for a long term contract assignment. The Digital Solutions Work Execution team is transforming our Work Management & Execution capabilities to meet the evolving demands of the energy transition, by leveraging leading technologies and approaches to drive efficiency, sustainability, and customer value to position Client as a trusted partner in the clean energy future. Job Purpose The Senior Digital Product Strategist is responsible for supporting the business and operations work stream within a multi-disciplinary digital product team structure. They ensure the product roadmap is aligned to business capabilities and priorities and have a pathway to deliver. They collaborate closely with stakeholders to shape the product vision, build the value case, define the future-state process vision, and lead change management efforts that ensure successful product delivery and adoption. Key Accountabilities Define future-state operations solution (process, org change), including detailed current state-process and future-state process documentation Support business capability assessment, design, alignment and road mapping for product line with cross-functional teams Develop/manage business case and benefits from initial business case development, financial approvals, updates to reflect roadmap, through to value delivery and benefit tracking Track objectives and key results to assess benefit realization of products/initiatives Support Business Owner and Product Owner with backlog prioritization to ensure the product backlog aligns to the business’ vision and outcomes Participates in team agile ceremonies including quarterly PI Planning, sprint planning, backlog refinement, demos, retrospectives and daily stand ups. Drive change management and product roll-out plan, stakeholder engagement, communications plan Provide support to product & technical workstreams (e.g., RFP support, stakeholder mgmt., value alignment, IT governance, IT PMO) Support preparation of materials for key stakeholder readouts (e.g., Sponsor Sync meetings) and regulatory engagements. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, engineering or relevant field 3+ years relevant business experience Experience working on digital product teams highly preferred Experience designing and refining value case (e.g., financial value to the business, strategic value, etc.) Strong understanding of digital product implementation and agile methodologies Excellent communication (written and verbal) skills The capacity for self-motivation, independent initiative and creative problem solving Experience in process improvement methodologies Valid driver's license required Pay: $1.00 per hour Education: Bachelor's (Preferred) Experience: Change management: 3 years (Required) Stakeholder management: 3 years (Required) Senior Digital Product Strategist : 3 years (Required) ensure the product roadmap: 3 years (Required) RFP support, value alignment, IT governance,: 3 years (Required) digital product implementation : 3 years (Required) Location: Syracuse, NY 13215 (Required) Work Location: Hybrid remote in Syracuse, NY 13215