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Digital Engagement Strategist

Horizontal Digital

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Location:
United Arab Emirates, Dubai

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Category:
IT - Software Development

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Contract Type:
Not provided

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Salary:

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Job Description:

At Horizontal Digital, we hold ourselves to one key belief: You’re only as good as your worst customer experience. This mantra is what drives our digital consultancy to think beyond the easy answers and instead create websites, apps, portals and other experiences that solve customer needs for Fortune 500 companies in intuitive and empathetic ways. And we make this lofty standard a reality by fusing strategy, data, design and technology together to arrive at solutions that set the bar higher for everyone.

Job Responsibility:

  • Act as the primary digital engagement lead across one or more strategic accounts—guiding clients through Discovery, Strategy, Design, Development and Delivery
  • Proactively identify improvement opportunities on live platforms, ensuring our work evolves through a Continuous Improvement (CI) mindset
  • Translate complex business needs into phased outcome-led roadmaps that guide both near-term delivery and long-term transformation
  • Act as the internal voice of the client and the external voice of the product - ensuring everything we deliver is connected to a clearly defined product vision, prioritised roadmap, and measurable business value
  • Provide clear strategic direction to delivery teams - partnering with Design, Tech, and Delivery Leads to ensure alignment on capacity, velocity, and value, while stepping back from day-to-day delivery management
  • Support clients in shaping go-to-market (GTM) strategies, service propositions, or business design initiatives - particularly during Discovery or early-phase engagements
  • Help shape commercial models and prioritisation trade-offs in partnership with clients - aligning budgets, ambition and investment phasing across multi-stage programmes
  • Build credibility with senior stakeholders—offering a clear, structured point of view while flexing between corporate polish and startup hustle
  • Operate as a connector across disciplines: delivery, strategy, design, content, data and technology
  • Shape and steer multi-disciplinary teams to deliver experience-led digital transformation programmes
  • Lead workshops, stakeholder interviews and discovery engagements to uncover goals, pain points and opportunities
  • Work with technologists and platform specialists to determine the best in class technical solutions to business problems
  • Support proposal writing, scoping and pre-sales activities
  • Maintain an informed POV on AI, emerging tech, composable platforms and customer experience best practices

Requirements:

  • ~10+ years of experience in digital strategy, product, delivery, or consultancy roles in an agency setting
  • Proven ability to lead complex transformation programmes and Continuous Improvement (CI) programmes
  • Strong understanding of agile-based and waterfall delivery models and are comfortable flexing between traditional and adaptive methodologies
  • Hands-on knowledge of DXP & MarTech ecosystems and extensive experience working with at least one enterprise CMS (e.g. Sitecore, Adobe, Optimizely, Acquia, LifeRay) preferably with at least one relevant platform certification or qualification
  • Confidence in managing senior stakeholders and leading difficult, high-stakes conversations
  • Experience spending meaningful time working on-site with clients and are comfortable committing to a hybrid working week of client-side office days, agency office days and working from home
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills—able to guide and inspire cross-functional teams
  • Experience with service blueprints, customer journey mapping and organisational change facilitation
  • Curiosity for AI, emerging technologies and evolving customer experience trends
  • Two recent case studies you can share in interview to demonstrate your impact

Nice to have:

Preferred experience industries such as hospitality, tourism, logistics or transport

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 09, 2025

Work Type:
Hybrid work
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