Sr. Product Strategist, Content Services

NASB (North America Services Business) delivers content and services across Samsung's digital ecosystem. Based in the heart of Silicon Valley, Mountain View, CA, NASB develops content partnerships, distribution strategies and cloud-based services to create innovative entertainment and lifestyle experiences for Samsung consumers on smartphones, tablets, Smart TVs, and other connected devices. NASB’s mission is to deliver impassioned connected experiences through content and services. At Samsung, we have successfully changed the way users interact with new technology every day.
At Samsung NX (Next eXperience), we seek the next experience. We create new experiences for
Samsung’s consumer product lines, from core TV and mobile products for the future of digital lifestyle. Based in Silicon Valley, we are uniquely positioned to provide a future-forward perspective within Samsung’s global market. We tie product rationale to the most up-to-date knowledge on industry trends and competitive landscape to bring differentiated value to our customers.

Position summary:
We are looking for a talented senior strategist to support the North American Services Business NX Product teams with strategy development, utilizing strategy frameworks, first principles based structuring/story-telling and modeling to enable decision making that considers all critical factors of the product’s short term and long term goals. Focus vertical will be TV related services, including TV Gaming (including Mobile Gaming), Art Store, and TV new concept development, but strategist will handle other vertical strategy work when necessary and advance Samsung’s Service Business growth.

• Develop and maintain the foundation strategy for Samsung’s TV services, which will provide a direction/plan, the rationale for it, and guiding principles that will support strategic decision making – The foundation strategy will manifest as presentation slides
• Develop and maintain a financial model that considers all variables of the product/business and produces key business values (e.g. users acquired, user engagement, users retained, revenue, costs) that determine levels of product success
• Support the exploration of opportunities or the resolution of key challenges together with the product team(s) leveraging the tools/skills of the strategy team: frameworks, models, competitive analysis, user analysis, etc.
• Serve as strategic thought leader for the product topic, participate in leadership discussions and provide perspective and recommendations
• Develop and/or improve the Strategy team best practices documentation and training modules. Facilitate the training of junior talent to improve the overall Strategy team’s capabilities
• Manage junior talent on projects to expand capacity of work and to provide on-the-job training for junior strategists
• Influence the perspectives of key stakeholders within Samsung, and sometimes partner stakeholders
• Communicate regularly with Samsung North American Service Product teams as well as Samsung HQ Product teams. This includes the business, engineering, and product, legal, marketing, finance, etc. teams.

• Conduct presentations to key executives, from local team execs to HQ (Korea) senior executive team
• Participate in all levels of product decisions, together with the product lead(s) and head of products

• Bachelor Degree and MBA preferred
• Knowledge: SW/Services Businesses, SW/Services Product Development and Operations, Media, Product Management
• Skills: Strategy Frameworks, First Principles Based Decision Facilitating, Business Revenue and Cost Modeling, Competitive Analysis, User Profiling, Target User Demographic Analysis, Ideation Workshop Facilitation, Market Research, Build vs Buy vs Partner Analysis, Presentation Creation and Delivery
• Experience: Strategy related work experience in/for Media (Video, Gaming, Social, Art, etc.) companies.

• Samsung Electronics America, Inc. and its subsidiaries are committed to employing a diverse workforce, and provide Equal Employment Opportunity for all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, genetic information, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.