Senior Product Strategist

Role Description

Whale Song is looking for a Senior Product Strategist who brings genuine senior-level product thinking and the presence to deploy it in a client-facing consulting environment. This is not a pure internal PM role. Depending on the engagement, you'll move fluidly between setting product strategy and owning hands-on product management execution — leading discovery, scoping, requirements strategy, delivery oversight, and stakeholder alignment across multiple client engagements simultaneously.

Your work will span the full arc of our client engagements from initial discovery through active delivery:

• Discovery & Strategy:
  • Lead client discovery sessions to define business problems, goals, constraints, and success criteria before a line of code is scoped.
  • Translate complex, ambiguous client needs into clear product strategy, prioritization frameworks, and phased roadmaps.
  • Develop and present strategic recommendations to executive stakeholders with confidence and credibility.
• Scoping & Requirements:
  • Produce development-ready requirement documents, user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional specifications grounded in business outcomes.
  • Assess technical feasibility and integration requirements in collaboration with engineering leads.
  • Own scoping calls end-to-end: structure the conversation, identify risks, and produce the deliverable.
• Product Management Execution:
  • Step into hands-on Product Management ownership when engagements require it; managing backlogs, facilitating sprints, and driving delivery accountability.
  • Serve as the product authority during active delivery; guiding sprint execution, scope management, and release coordination.
  • Identify and escalate scope creep, delivery risks, and client expectation gaps before they become problems.
• Client Relationship:
  • Act as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders, building credibility through consistent delivery and strategic thinking.
  • Maintain proactive communication across multiple concurrent client engagements.
  • Represent Whale Song professionally in all client interactions — written, verbal, and in person.
• Internal Contribution:
  • Support pre-sales solutioning and proposal development for new engagements.
  • Contribute to methodology refinement as Whale Song's product practice continues to mature.
  • Mentor and support junior team members on requirements quality and product thinking.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in product management, product strategy, or business analysis — with meaningful time spent in a client-facing, consulting, or agency delivery environment.
• Demonstrated track record leading product work across B2B SaaS, custom software, or enterprise application development.
• Comfortable moving between strategic advisory work and hands-on PM execution depending on what the engagement requires.
• Experience working with cross-functional remote teams including engineering, UX, and business stakeholders.
• Prior exposure to multiple industries preferred — healthcare technology, fintech, real estate tech, or enterprise software are all relevant backgrounds.

Requirements

• Product Strategy and Roadmapping
• Requirements and User Story Writing
• Client-Facing Delivery
• Agile/Hybrid-Agile Methodologies
• Business Analysis
• Software Scoping & Estimation
• UX Collaboration
• Stakeholder Management
• SaaS & Custom Application Delivery
• AI-Enabled Product Operations
• Backlog Management
• Product QA & Release Coordination

Benefits

• Remote work environment with high trust, high autonomy, and high accountability.
• Opportunity to work with a diverse range of clients and industries.
• Professional development and mentorship opportunities.

Company Description

Whale Song is a digital product studio backed by Golden Section, serving mid-market, enterprise, and government clients with custom software development, AI-enabled solutions, and product strategy services. We build right the first time, which means strategy before execution, clarity before build, and measurable outcomes before feature output.