Strategy Lead

Are you looking for the next chapter in your career journey? You’ve come to the right place. We are always happy to hear from people who love learning and have their heart in the right place. Welcome home.

We are dedicated to redefining industries by transforming digital experiences into strategic enablers of meaningful change. Working with global clients across a variety of sectors, our aim is to empower organisations to navigate the complexities of digital transformation, balancing user-centric design with strategic business impact.

We do more than build digital products and services — we partner with organisations to shape their core principles, create strategic opportunities, and guide them towards sustainable growth. We align transformative ideas with practical outcomes, ensuring value is delivered across every touchpoint.

What are you responsible for

Designing and Validating Strategic Value Propositions

Lead the development and validation of value propositions that align with client goals and market opportunities for both new and existing products and services. Bring a strategic mindset to the design process, leveraging diverse frameworks to address business challenges and capture emerging opportunities.

Leading Cross-functional Strategic Initiatives

Work with cross-functional teams to guide the development and prioritisation of strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment between business, technical, and user experience perspectives. From concept to delivery, your leadership will help ensure solutions not only delight users but also meet long-term business objectives.

Shaping Market Entry and Growth Strategies

Guide clients through the development of effective go-to-market and growth strategies, positioning new solutions for maximum impact. Drive strategic discussions to ensure clients are prepared to engage markets competitively and scale effectively.

Assessing Organisational Transformation Needs

Evaluate an organisation's readiness for change, providing actionable insights on organisational structures, processes, and team capabilities. Develop strategic roadmaps that help clients manage their transformation journeys while minimising risk and ensuring alignment with business goals.

Building Strategic Business Cases

Develop clear, compelling business cases to support proposed initiatives. Use storytelling, strategic insight, and data-driven analysis to articulate value, ensuring alignment with both client aspirations and market realities.

Empowering Teams and Enabling Change

Equip clients and internal teams with the right strategic frameworks, tools, and guidance to build their capabilities and maximise impact. Empower leaders and stakeholders to navigate uncertainty, drive performance, and foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

What we are looking for

Strategic Expertise in Design and Transformation

Significant experience in leveraging user-centered design principles and strategic insight to drive meaningful business transformation. You understand how to balance user needs, market trends, and organisational priorities to develop holistic strategies that work.

Strategic Leadership and Collaborative Influence

Proven ability to inspire and guide multidisciplinary teams towards impactful outcomes, blending Agile, Lean, and strategic management principles to drive high-value results. You’re skilled in facilitating cross-functional collaboration and guiding teams through complex strategic decision-making processes.

Stakeholder Management and Executive Engagement

Adept at managing and influencing senior stakeholders, you bring clarity and insight to complex challenges. You are comfortable guiding executives through strategic initiatives, aligning diverse perspectives, and building buy-in for transformative efforts.

Innovative, Analytical, and Forward-Thinking

A strategic thinker who challenges conventional approaches and advances new ideas. You’re passionate about innovation, and you know how to harness insights and data to support strategic business decisions that elevate industry standards.

Systems-Level and Detail-Oriented Thinking

Able to zoom out and envision an entire strategic landscape, while also delving into detailed planning and delivery to ensure seamless execution.

Clear and Impactful Communication

Exceptional communicator, capable of conveying strategic concepts in a clear and compelling way to audiences ranging from team members to executive leadership.

Supportive and Empowering Team Culture

Committed to fostering a supportive, inclusive work environment. You actively share insights, welcome diverse viewpoints, and drive a culture of growth, openness, and resilience.

Adaptability and Resilience in Ambiguity

Able to thrive in dynamic and ambiguous environments, you adapt your strategic approaches to meet varying project needs. You manage uncertainty with confidence, turning challenges into opportunities.

Curious and Growth-Oriented

A lifelong learner passionate about continuous growth—both for yourself and others. You cultivate an environment where learning is celebrated, and new skills and ideas are constantly being embraced.

What we care about

How we work – We’re a team of collaborators with a value of continuous improvement and always aim to encourage each other to get out of our comfort zone, experiment, reflect and learn together.

Our Culture – We are human first. Mutual respect and trust is an essential condition, as is passion, talent and energy. All team members need to be self-starters and have a desire to be part of a work culture with a lean, flat structure, built on a value of transparency.

Flexibility – Not a morning person? Need to pick up your kids from school? We believe in well-rested people doing concentrated and impactful work. Therefore, we have core hours and offer flexible working hours and locations.

What we can offer you

• Competitive salary benchmarked externally and internally for salary fairness: our Lead level banding is £75,000-£100,000 (depending on experience)
• Company pension contribution of 6%
• Private health insurance with WPA
• 25 days of holidays + plus bank holidays and a day off for your birthday too. We offer a long service annual leave scheme of an additional day per year after three years’ unbroken service, up to a maximum of 30 days
• A tiered parental leave policy, which offers 16-weeks maternity full pay and 4- weeks partner full pay (dependant on your tenure)
• A Learning budget of £1200 per year for self initiated learning, books and training courses
• EV salary sacrifice (dependant on your tenure)
• A remote-first setup with two days per month to co-work together in London
• Team socials and group activities

Don’t worry about whether you’re a 100% fit! Take a look at what we do and what we've done and get in touch. Don’t just tell us where you’ve worked or studied, tell us who you are, where you are heading, and why you want to join us!

More about our process

Please send your CV and a brief covering letter explaining why you would like to work at Futurice UK to joinus@futurice.co.uk.

We usually follow the following format for interviews, all held remotely:

• 30min video/telephone call with our People Director
• 1 hour First round skill-focused interview with two practitioners
• Second round culture and values interview with other members of the team

Salary: £75,000 - £100,000 (depending on experience)

Inclusion and diversity are critical to the success of Futurice, and we actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or any other protected category. We will offer interviews at times that suit your schedule and circumstances. Please get in touch if you have any questions or if there is anything we can do to make the process more accessible and convenient for you.