The Company
Star is a global consultancy that connects strategy, design and engineering services to help companies accelerate digital product innovation. With over a decade of consistent annual growth, we’re rapidly expanding our consulting services, geographic footprint and industry expertise. We’re on the cusp of further growth as we become a household name in consulting.
The role of the Technology Strategist, Nordics, will be instrumental in getting us there.
Star works for businesses in a variety of industries, including Automotive & Mobility, HealthTech, FinTech and AdTech. Our clients include BMW Group, SAIC, Lufthansa, Denso, NIO, Panasonic, AppyWay, Zeiss, Walmart, Dolby, and many more.
We support our clients at every step of their digital journey. Through co-creation, we guide them from ideation and concept crafting to full-stack development. We always remain focused on helping our clients win the hearts and minds of their customers.
At Star, we connect strategy, insights, design and engineering into a seamless workflow devised to support our clients every step of the way - no matter how long or complex their journey. We anchor everything we do in clear and compelling endgames, enabling our multidisciplinary teams to create superior solutions and impressive commercial returns for our clients.
Star is truly global. That is why we are the first major consulting company that does not have a headquarters. Instead, we have many front doors, spanning Silicon Valley, Tokyo, London, Munich, Copenhagen, Kyiv, Wroclaw, and other vibrant design, technology and creative nuclei of the world. Our spirited and strong Star Crew takes great pride in working side-by-side with their trailblazing counterparts at some of the world’s most disruptive “unicorn” startups and iconic global brands.
Our passion is to make every great person, every great idea and every great company shine. That’s why we’re called Star.
The Opportunity
We are looking for a Technology Strategist who will take on a leading role in challenging and inspiring our prospective clients while positioning Star to be their technology innovation partner. This role will be a key contributor to driving sales and strategic growth at Star, and help our customers envision and deliver groundbreaking product and service experiences.
The Technology Strategist will partner closely with the local Commercial Lead and Head of Design, as well as with the rest of the local team and with the global Star team, to identify and pursue strategic growth opportunities. You should be dedicated to building partnerships, collaborating with customers to understand their needs, identifying complex business and technical challenges, creating winning proposals, as well as architecting, planning, and managing the development of technology solutions that create a deep and tangible impact.
You will collaborate with technical delivery teams to support your initiatives and define delivery approaches and work packages for new engagements. As customer opportunities turn into projects and programs, you will support the core project team’s efforts as a subject matter expert, and lead select research, discovery, and delivery engagements. Being integral part of Star CTO office team, you will also partner with other Solutions Strategists, Solutions Architects and Technology Directors globally as well as with Star Project Management, Product Management, Customer Success, and Design teams to share best practices, and contribute to the creation and expansion of our technology, product management, and solutions delivery practices.
Our Technology Strategists are some of our most prominent thought leaders, and you will have the opportunity to have your thoughts, ideas, and perspectives crafted into public thought leadership, as well as helping to educate fellow team members globally on key trends.
The ideal candidate has both a technology solutions development and entrepreneurial mindset and is someone who’s willing to roll up their sleeves and contribute to the growth and vitality of Star. Charisma, ambition, and confidence are essential, and the successful candidate will also be humble, disarming, and a team player. We value pragmatism, which to us means creating real solutions to real challenges for real people. Last but not least, attention to detail and always striving to do better is critical because ‘good enough’ is never good enough.
Qualifications
Qualifications and experience:
- 7+ years of professional experience in software development including experience in solution architecture;
- Previous hands-on experience in system design and development of cloud-based systems for web and mobile;
- Strong communication skills and ability to present technical ideas in business language;
- Experience leading technical workshops with external customers;
- Deep understanding of software development processes, including agile engineering, QA, DevOps practices;
- Hands-on experience in engineering complex software solutions, within all of cloud, web and mobile layers;
- Experience in supporting pre-sales process, leading client workshops and meetings;
- Excellent spoken and written English & Danish;
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally 10-20% of the time.
Nice to have:
- Experience with data science and AI;
- Experience in some of our key industries: HealthTech, Automotive & Mobility, FinTech, AdTech & MarTech;
- Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a software and/or digital services company;
- Experience with the entrepreneurial dynamics of a start-up.
Responsibilities
- Analyzing the technology aspects of prospective client’s businesses and identification of their technology-related needs and challenges;
- Prospective client-facing communication in business development contexts, from early exploratory discussions to Q’n’A sessions, to final pitch presentations, comfortable in front of C-level audiences;
- In coordination with the rest of the participating team, planning and facilitating workshops with customers to define high-level system and software architectures as well as solution scope. As part of that, being comfortable with white-boarding and workshop-style problem analysis;
- Crafting compelling proposals and pitches that are built on a strong narrative, and are technically state-of-the-art;
- Contributing to thought leadership and other marketing initiatives via internal R&D initiatives and industry events participation, the publication of white papers and blog posts, organization of webinars, etc.;
- Contributing to refining and enhancing software development and business development processes.
What will you get
We offer a rewarding compensation and benefits package, an intellectually and creatively vibrant environment in a central location in Copenhagen, professional flexibility and unique international travel opportunities.
Star is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that equity, diversity and inclusion are key to our ability to provide our clients and crew members with unique business and career outcomes. Your race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability have no effect on our hiring decisions. If you have a special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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