Senior Platform Strategist

At Horizontal Digital, we hold ourselves to one key belief: You’re only as good as your worst customer experience. This mantra is what drives our digital consultancy to think beyond the easy answers and instead create websites, apps, portals and other experiences that solve customer needs for Fortune 500 companies in intuitive and empathetic ways. And we make this lofty standard a reality by fusing strategy, data, design and technology together to arrive at solutions that set the bar higher for everyone. We use these values to fuel superior results: Lock arms We forge relationships that make our impact 1,000x stronger. This means working across departments and engaging both our clients and our communities to deliver the greatest good. Show hustle We’re not ones to sit on our hands and wait. Instead, we anticipate opportunities, collectively roll up our sleeves and find ways to execute the exceptional. Embrace change From new technologies to workplace philosophies, we welcome the unexpected and constantly anticipate what’s next. Elevate empathy We listen before we take action. This means understanding a variety of perspectives and holding ourselves to a higher standard of accountability. Never settle We motivate each other to push past the easy answers and collectively arrive at bigger, more inspiring ideas. But enough about us. Let’s talk about you. The Digital Platform Strategist is a collaborative, cross-functional practitioner who partners with enterprise clients to define, orchestrate, and activate the marketing technology (MarTech) ecosystems that power personalized, connected customer experiences.

This role bridges business strategy, marketing operations, customer insights, and platform capabilities ensuring clients maximize the value across platform categories such as Content Management System (CMS), Customer Data Platform (CDP), Digital Asset Management (DAM), Experimentation and Personalization within the Sitecore, Optimizely, and Contentstack ecosystem. You will guide clients in understanding what’s possible, how to mature, and how to activate MarTech investments through experience optimization, content operations, data foundations, and automation. This role is consultative, technical, creative, and highly collaborative. What you’ll do: Strategic Consulting & CX Vision - Lead discovery sessions with marketing, digital, IT, and product stakeholders to define business goals and map them to MarTech enabled CX outcomes. - Build platform activation roadmaps that clarify use cases, dependencies, data flows, content requirements, and measurable KPIs. - Translate complex technical capabilities into actionable strategies that marketing and business teams can understand and execute. - Develop maturity assessments across personalization, content operations, data readiness, testing/optimization, and marketing automation. MarTech Platform and Ecosystem Expertise - Serve as a subject matter expert across platforms such as: - - Content Platforms: Sitecore (SitecoreAI, XM Cloud, XP, Content Hub), Optimizely (CMS, CMP, Opal) and Contentstack (Content Cloud, Data Cloud, Agent OS). - - Customer Data and Personalization: Customer Data Platform (CDP), experimentation platforms, real-time decisioning, and AI-driven personalization tools. - Assess clients’ current-state platform usage and identify opportunities to unify data, content, automation, and analytics. - Work with lead strategists, solution architects, and technical teams to translate strategy into platform configurations, integration requirements, and implementation plans. Personalization & Content Operations Strategy - Create frameworks for content orchestration, taxonomy, tagging, modular content, metadata design, and governance. - Define personalization approaches in relation to audience segmentation, journeys, triggers, content decisioning, and testing methodologies.