Growth Strategy Associate

Tallwave•Phoenix, AZ

17h•Remote

About The Position

The Growth Strategy Associate is a junior-to-mid level strategist (≈4 years experience) who helps Tallwave deliver growth strategy and product innovation work across pillar clients - complex, fast-moving organizations where teams need clearer focus, sharper growth insights, stronger strategic planning, and better connection between strategy and execution. This is a fully remote position. In this role, you will: Support growth and business strategy engagements by translating ambiguous challenges into structured insights and recommendations. Contribute to measurable growth planning through research, analysis, and KPI-informed prioritization. Partner with product, design, marketing, and delivery teams to translate strategy into roadmaps, narratives, and practical next steps. Bring an emerging technology lens to help clients (and Tallwave) understand what’s changing and how to respond. Help evolve Tallwave’s growth strategy practice through reusable frameworks, POVs, and pitch support. You’ll split your time between hands-on strategy development, cross-functional collaboration, and supporting client-facing delivery and new business.

Requirements

Experience ~4 years in growth strategy, consulting, product strategy, business operations, corporate strategy, analytics, or a high-growth startup environment.
Experience supporting strategy work that connects to execution (planning, prioritization, roadmaps, operating rhythms)—not just research.
Exposure to cross-functional work with product, design, data, or marketing teams.
Familiarity with emerging technology trends (especially AI) and interest in applying them to real growth and customer problems.
Strong problem-solving skills: you can structure ambiguous questions into clear workstreams and outputs.
Strong research and synthesis ability: you can pull signal from noise and articulate insights with clear implications.
Comfort with metrics: you can work with KPIs/OKRs and performance data to support prioritization and recommendations.
Strong storytelling skills: you can build clean narratives and high-quality slides that communicate clearly to client stakeholders.
Workshop and meeting support: you can help plan sessions, contribute in the room, and synthesize outputs into decisions and next steps.
Tool fluency: Google Suite/MS Office; comfort learning and using tools like Figma, FigJam/Miro, Asana/Confluence, etc.

Responsibilities

Support the development of growth strategies that align customer needs, business goals, and market dynamics.
Conduct customer, market, and competitor research; synthesize findings into actionable insights and strategic implications.
Identify growth opportunities across the customer lifecycle and translate them into clear opportunity areas and strategic recommendations.
Contribute to business case thinking (impact sizing, tradeoffs, feasibility) to help teams prioritize where to invest.
Support the creation of strategic narratives that make recommendations easy to understand, align around, and act on.
Support KPI and measurement framework development by helping define success metrics and how performance will be tracked.
Analyze performance signals (funnels, cohorts, customer behavior, channel performance, product usage) to identify what’s working and what’s not.
Help translate insights into prioritization inputs—value, effort, risk, sequencing, and dependencies—so strategy becomes a plan.
Contribute to executive-ready reporting and readouts that connect insight → decision → next steps.
Support planning artifacts and operating rhythms (working sessions, reviews, and readouts) that keep teams aligned and moving.
Partner with product strategists, designers, and delivery teams to translate strategy into product and growth priorities, engagement improvements, and roadmap inputs across web, mobile, and platform surfaces.
Connect product strategy (what to build, for whom, and why) with growth strategy (how it gets adopted, expands, and retains) by framing initiatives around clear customer problems, value propositions, and measurable outcomes.
Collaborate with acquisition and lifecycle marketing stakeholders to link channel strategy and customer intent to product journeys—ensuring landing pages, onboarding, activation loops, and conversion paths support product adoption and growth goals.
Support the development of full-funnel product growth strategies by identifying friction points and opportunities across acquisition → activation → engagement → conversion → retention, and translating them into actionable initiatives and roadmap recommendations.
Contribute to go-to-market and acquisition planning by helping define target segments, positioning/value propositions, messaging hierarchies, and channel implications—especially for companies in scale mode.
Bring an emerging tech lens into product + growth work: help assess where AI, automation, personalization, and new platforms can create differentiated product experiences and lifecycle outcomes (without chasing hype).
Support workshops and working sessions that align product, design, marketing, and analytics stakeholders around product growth problems, priorities, and decisions.
Work in and around tools like Figma and collaborative whiteboarding to review flows, capture feedback, and help assemble clear narratives and storyboards for stakeholder reviews.
Help maintain high-quality strategy artifacts (briefs, storyboards, journey maps, funnel diagnostics, growth hypotheses, product narratives, prioritization models) that teams can execute against.
Track emerging technology trends (especially AI) and translate them into practical implications for growth, product strategy, and customer experience.
Contribute to Tallwave POVs, briefs, and examples that help clients understand what’s changing and how to respond.
Support new business by conducting research, shaping slides, drafting narratives, and contributing to pitch materials and proposals.
Collaborate with senior team members to build and refine Tallwave’s reusable growth strategy templates and toolkits.
Contribute to internal learning—sharing tools, examples, and methods that improve how the strategy team works.