Senior Product Strategy Analyst
Chicago, Illinois
Product – Product /
Full-Time /
Hybrid
About Apptegy
Apptegy partners with school districts to simplify communication, elevate their brand, and empower every role in their organization. We put our clients front and center in everything we do because it's our clients who are most passionate about education. We build our products and features to make everyone in a school community better communicators. Our fast response time and quality support mean school leaders, teachers, and staff always have a partner ready to help provide a solution. Joining Apptegy is your opportunity to be on a high-performing team and contribute to our growth and your own.
Why You’ll Love This Role
We’re looking for a strategic and analytical thinker to join our Product, Design, and Engineering (PD&E) Operations team in a high-impact, high-visibility role. This is not a traditional analyst role; this is for someone who thrives in ambiguity, excels at synthesizing complex information into actionable insights, and can drive cross-functional initiatives that improve decision-making and accelerate product innovation.
You’ll be our go-to for tackling critical questions that require both rigorous analysis and business intuition. This means you're not just good with data, you’re great at using it to influence strategy, align stakeholders, and deliver real business outcomes.
What You'll Do
Strategic Analysis & Business Insight
- Partner with PD&E leadership to define, scope, and answer critical business questions using structured problem-solving and data-driven analysis.
- Identify trends, opportunities, and risks in product performance, user behavior, and operational processes.
- Lead strategic initiatives (e.g., pricing and packaging analysis, beta program design, org-wide tooling strategy) from problem framing through execution.
- Build business cases and models to evaluate product investments, resource planning, and feature impact.
- Program Design & Strategic Operations
- Design and drive cross-functional programs that elevate product operations—such as Voice of the Customer (VoC), roadmap planning, and quarterly business reviews.
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Design, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Success) to ensure alignment and drive execution.
- Establish frameworks, processes, and cadences that streamline how we research, plan, and evaluate products.
Executive Communication & Influence
- Synthesize insights and market research into compelling narratives for senior leadership through decks, reports, and dashboards.
- Provide recommendations that influence strategic decision-making across product initiatives.
- Facilitate executive readouts, aligning stakeholders around priorities, tradeoffs, and next steps.
Who You Are
- 4+ years of experience in management consulting, business analysis, or product strategy at a fast-paced, high-performing company.
- Based in the Chicago area—or planning to be! While we pride ourselves on offering ultra-flexible and hybrid working schedules, we’d love for you to be within reach of our new Fulton Market office to collaborate in-person when it makes sense.
- Comfortable operating independently and cross-functionally in ambiguous environments.
- Strategic and structured thinker who loves turning open-ended questions into actionable frameworks and decisions.
- Strong business acumen with an ability to understand technical and product-oriented topics.
- An excellent communicator—can take complex information and turn it into digestible, persuasive recommendations.
- Advanced Excel or Google Sheets modeling skills; familiarity with tools like SQL, Tableau, Looker, Amplitude, or similar is a plus.
- Familiarity with product development tools like Jira, ProductBoard, Dovetail, Confluence, or similar.
- Exposure to Agile environments or SaaS product lifecycles.
- Experience supporting product and engineering organizations from a strategy or ops lens.
$120,000 - $175,000 a year
Why You'll Love Working With Us
We take our responsibility as a company seriously and aim to make this the best job that you’ve had (and one that sets you up for future success). We want your day at work and your time at home to be a joyful experience, that’s why we provide:
--Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage
--Retirement 401(k) with employer match
--Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
--Mental Health Reimbursement
--Unlimited paid time off including seasonal (December) company-wide time off
--Paid parental and medical leave
We value thoughtfulness and high performance in all candidates as we progress through the interview stages. If the challenge of building a rapidly growing company excites you as much as it does us, we hope you’ll consider joining us.
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Apptegy is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
